Thai Ingredient Substitutes

• Bamboo shoots: in fried dishes you may use asparagus
• Coconut milk: whole (cows) milk
• Fermented fish: anchovy paste
• Fermented pork: Spam, marinated in lime juice
• Gord (gourd leaves - bai dumleung): watercress
• Green mangoes: sour green cooking apples
• Lime juice: lemon juice
• Limes: lemons
• Makheau phuang (Thai pea eggplants): garden peas
• Mooli (white radish): turnip
• Palm sugar: light brown sugar
• Phak kana (Thai kale): broccoli
• Shallots: red or spanish onions
• Shrimp paste: anchovy paste
• Swamp cabbage: cabbage (blanch if required "raw")
• Tamarind juice: 5 parts tomato ketchup to 1 part vinegar
• Thai basil: a mixture of Italian basil and mint
• Thai chiles (prik chi fa): Mexican chiles: jalapeno
• Thai chiles (prik ki nu): Mexican chiles: habanero

Posted by WingsFan91 at Recipe Goldmine 11/14/2001 6:34 pm