This dish is a spicy meat side dish normally eaten with sticky rice. It is chunky, making it ideal to eat with your fingers. In Thailand as with many cultures, there are many dishes you eat with your hands. Ensure you clean your hand thoroughly, take a chunk of sticky rice, and, using the sticky rice to cover your fingers, grab a chunk of the minced pork, then eat.

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I really enjoyed the yellow curry Turkish style sandwich I made the other week, and so I wanted to try something in the same vain. Here I made a Thai red pork curry, scooped out the centre of a large french loaf and fill it with the curry.

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To you this is a variation of an eastern Turkish dish, to me this is a western dish! Inside the turkish bread is a typical Thai soft yellow curry for a Thai flavour with a western twist.

Ingredients
Turkish Bread
250 gms Pork Steak Meat
220 ml Coconut Milk
50 ml Evaporated Milk
1 Teaspoon Yellow Curry Paste
1/2 Teaspoon Salt
1 Teaspoon Sugar
20 gms Chopped Onion
4 Garlic Cloves Chopped
2 Tablespoons Oil

Preparation
1. Chop the pork into cubes, fry in oil until the pork is half cooked and a little browned.
2. Add the chopped garlic, chopped onion and fry for another 30 seconds.
3. Add the sugar, salt, yellow curry paste, evaporated milk and coconut milk and simmer until the sauce has reduced to half.
4. Slice open the turkish bread and spoon inside

We don’t use bread much in Thailand, its strictly for snacks and treats and this recipe is no different. Each square of bread is coated with seasoned pork mince and egg and grilled.

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These ribs are pan cooked with teriyaki seasoning for a more moist rib than is possible with oven or grill cooking. The meat should be tender after cooking and practically falling off the bone. The best way to get this is to cook them very slowly for a long time. When I make these, I simmer them until the water has nearly gone, then leave them overnight sitting in the pan, top up the water again, and simmer again until the water has reduced down again.

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This recipe is a blend of Thai yellow curried pork, coriander leaves, mint and lettuce served in pita bread. If you like Greek food and Thai food, why not mix the two and fill a pita bread with a Thai curry. This is a particularly way to serve Thai flavours to people who don’t like rice, the pita bread substitutes for the rice in this dish.

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These stuffed green peppers have a spicy chilli centre, if hot Thai chillies are not to your tastes, you can omit it.

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It’s called a sandwich, but the sauce is soaked into the bread and you may prefer to eat this with a knife and fork. A good wholemeal bread is better for this recipe, it has to stand up to the strong cinnamon flavours in the pork filling.

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A very simple stir fry red pork curry with a plenty of fresh vegetables. This dish plus rice makes a complete meal of meat and vegetables.

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This dish is a spicy Thai curry softened with coconut milk. Do not omit the coconut milk it is essential to the dish, but the vegetables can be interchanged with western vegetables. If you can’t get the green aubergine, use a suitable green frying vegetable rather than purple kind. The curry is ready mixed paste commonly used in Thailand, you can get this from an Asian grocer.

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