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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These parcels are made from fried pork and herbs, wrapped in a pastry made from steamed rice flour and starch and served with a sweet and sour sauce. The pastry is cooked separately from the filling and it’s very different from the cooking methods you may be use to. The actual pastry mix is liquid when uncooked. In order to cook it, you need to tie a cheese cloth or clean handkerchief tightly stretched over the top of a pan of water.

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Satay sauce is normally served as a side sauce to chicken or pork. It is however a lot more versatile! This is one use for this sauce, I’ve stuffed in inside pork meat and made a satay burger. Another part of pork satay is the cucumber and chillies in a sweet sauce, I’ve used that as the topping, together with onions. For the photograph, I squeezed the burger to show you some sauce!

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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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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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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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Skewered pork & green pepper (like a Kebab) but served the way we eat it at home, with a chilli and garlic sauce.

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This sausage pizza uses Thai pork sausage. A steamed sausage you make yourself from good quality pork, making this pizza completely hand made. I’ve also added a little Thai chilli paste to spice it up, you can omit this if you don’t like spicy foods.

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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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