Appetizers
All Thai-d up Drunken Chicken Wings
Quick and easy finger food, a new twist on barbecued chicken wings. All Thai-d up Chicken Wings
Crab And Pork Stuffed Shells
Poo Ja are an elegant and delicious hot Thai appetizer. They also are excellent party food.
Fried Fish cakes (Thot Man Pla) [offsite link]
These crispy fish cakes are always a favourite. Serve with cucumber dip.
Barbecue Pork with Lemon Grass
A wonderful and tasty Thai lemon grass pork barbecue. Marinade the night before and you are ready to grill in just minutes. Perfect for an appetizer or as an entree in a Thai meal.
Chicken Curry with Flatbread
This popular Thai-Indian street food is the perfect appetizer of lunch offering for you and your family and friends. The sweet-hot savoury bread is a great textural compliment to the savoury chicken curry served on top. Perfect with an ice cold Singha beer.
Chicken Puff
Easy Thai Appetizers made with chicken and seasonings deep fried in puff pastry pillows.
Chicken Puff Appetizer
One of my favourite Thai appetizers is Pun Sib Tod (Chicken Puff). This is a modern day Thai recipe and is perfect with a glass of Bier Singha.
Chicken Stuffed Sticky Rice Bites
These easy to make tasty Thai-Bites make a great appetizer to accompany drinks.
Chicken with Seafood Balls
Chicken with Seafood Balls are the perfect finger food to serve with beer or wine at your next party. Guests choose which sauce to use for accent to their taste with either a colourful and spicy Green Chile Sauce or a mild Plum Sauce.
Chicken Wrapped In Pandanus Leaf recipe
Pandanus Leaves give a fragrant, sweet, smoky flavour to the chicken bundles which are deep fried. Gai Hob Bai Toey makes an excellent appetizer or part of a Thai dinner menu.
Chile Paste (Nam Phrik Pao)
Nam Phrik Pao is a wonderful condiment and flavor booster for many dishes.
Coconut-Rice Crêpes Filled with Pork
Amazing first course or appetizer for a Thai meal. This Coconut-Rice Crêpes is a magical introduction of the meal to come. Also a lovely pass around finder food.
Crispy Prawn Purses
Delightful and easy to make Thai Dim Sum is the perfect party food.
Drunken Chicken Wings (Peek Gai Daeng Mao)
This Thai finger food is perfect for parties and is easy and quick to prepare. It is a popular Thai snack to eat with drinks.
Fried Canapés with Pork Spread
This crunchy tasty appetizer is always a hit at a party. Easy to make ahead and fry just before serving to guests. This is an exciting appetizer for holiday get togethers.
Fried Mussels Pancakes (Hoi Mang Poo Tod)
Popular Thai appetizer is easy to make at home. This is a favourite "street food" in Thailand for breakfast with steamed jasmine rice or as a late night drink-snack.
Golden Flowers
Kratong Tong (Golden Flowers) is a very popular tasty of Thai appetizer. These light crispy golden cups are filled with various savory as the perfect snack to enjoy with a cocktail, glass of wine or beer.
Green Mango Spicy Dip
Green Mango Dip or Nam Prik Ma-Muang is one of my favourite Thai dips especially for seafood in the summer. It is a very popular dip to accompany cold beer Singha as friends and family gather to chat, laugh and enjoy themselves as is a popular Thai culture custom.
Green Papaya Salad with Grilled Shrimp
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Grilled Drumette Appetizers
This flavourful easy to make elegant appetizer is the perfect starter course for a Thai meal. It also is a tempting dish for a party as it can be marinated overnight and then quickly grilled, finished and severed for a sizzling fresh off the grill pass around platter.
Larb Bites
This Thai appetizer, Larb Bites, is the perfect finger food for parties. The crunchy texture on the outside of the Larb Bites gives way to a burst of Thai flavours that is sure to please family and friends. This is the perfect tasty snack to serve with your favourite beverage.
Lobster Spring Rolls
These delightful lobster rolls are made with rice wrappers which give a great chewy texture in contast to the succulent lobster filling. You wrap these in a lettuce leaf with herbs and dip into a sweet and sour dipping sauce.
Mai-Thai Salad Rolls
Refreshing and always popular salad rolls can be made ahead of time and placed in serving dish with ice under compartment.
Mee Krob (Cripy Sweet and Sour rice noodles) [offsite link]
This great recipe for the popular dish Mee Krob (Cripy Sweet and Sour rice noodles)is from
"Life in the Palace" written by Mom Luang Nuang Nillaruttan of Hua Hin.
Miang Gai
Miang Gai is a very tasty snack often sold as street food. It involves wrapping little tidbits of several items in a leaf, along with a sweet-and-salty sauce. Chewing all the combination of ingredients together is like a snap-crackle and pop of bursting exciting flavours.
Miang Kam [offsite link]
Miang Kam is such a fun appetizer, it is the snap crackle and pop for adults. Each guest can roll their own!
Nam Phrik Ong
Nam Prik Ong is a Northern Thai Dipping Sauce of pork in a spicy tomato sauce. Nam Prik Ong is usually served with Sticky Rice and a selection of fresh vegetables.
Phyllo Wrapped Thai Shrimp
This is one of those festive make ahead appetizers that is perfect for the holidays. The flavours and textures pop and are perfect with a glass of wine or cocktail of choice. Great pass around appetizer with dipping sauce.
Pomelo and Grilled Shrimp Salad (Yam Som-O)
A refreshing grilled shrimp with pomello salad that is zesty with shallots and garlic. This makes a great appetizer course.
Pork Satey(Muu Satay)
Mouth watering pork satays with a delicious peanut sauce are ferfect with a cucumber relish for an appetizer as an entree dish.
Pork-Shrimp Coconut-Rice Crêpes
Thai Pork-Shrimp Coconut-Rice Crêpes make a fabulous first course.
Potstickers, Thai Style [offsite link]
The Thai version of this famous Chinese dish.
Princess Wings (Bpeek Kai Yat Sai Koong)
Princess Wings also called Bpeek Gai Yat Sai Koong or stuffed chicken wings are always a favourite appetizer or finger food for parties.
Red Curry Duck Wonton Appetizers
These Thai red curry duck and pineapple-mango wonton appetizers are bursting with flavour.
Satay [offsite link]
Easy instructions for wonderful satays. They are the perfect party food or as a side dish.
Satay Lue (Barbecues) [offsite link]
You too can make the popular Satay Lue (Barbecues) in your own kitchen with this easy to follow recipe from "Life in the Palace" written by Mom Luang Nuang Nillaruttan.
Spicy Eggplant Dip
Jeow is a Lao dip that is often served as an appetizer. The main ingredient can be tomatoes, chilies or eggplant. Cooking the vegetables directly on coals or open flame lends a nice smoked flavor.
Stuffed Chicken Wings
This is a very popular Thai appetizer to please all palates. You can make it as mild or fiery as you like by simply increasing and decreasing the amount of
chiles and curry paste that is added to the stuffing mixture.
Thai Ceviche Talay
This Thai style ceviche is sure to be a big hit with your guests as a summer appetizer. I like serving it in either well chilled martini glasses.
Thai Corn Fritters [offsite link]
Here is a tasty appetizer, complete with where to buy the ingredients online.
Thai Crispy Egg Rolls
Thai Crispy Eggrolls are a delight as an appetizer or side dish with Thai barbecue chicken or satay.
Thai Fresh Spring Rolls
Thai Fresh Spring Rolls are a wonderful, healthy snack or lunch coice. I also love making them for parties. Fresh Thai spring rolls are not fried as the common egg rolls you find in many Chinese restaurants. These are far healthier and can be prepared ahead for guests.
Thai Glazed Chicken Lettuce Wraps [offsite link]
Thai Glazed Chicken Lettuce Wraps from Rachael Ray´s 30 minute meals
Thai Meatball Appetizers
Easy tasty Thai meatball appetizers will delight the palates of your friends and family!
Thai Meatballs Panang Curry
Thai Beef-pork meatballs in fragrant Panang Curry is a quick easy meal to fix in less than 30 minutes.
Thai Salmon Cakes
Flavourful smoked salmon and curry pair together for the best Salmon Cakes you have ever eaten!
Thai Spring Rolls (Po Piah Tort)
Crisp Thai egg rolls packed with flavour make the perfect party food.
Thai style toast, (khanom bung na goong roy nga) [offsite link]
Crispy toast topped with minced shrimp, then deep fried, make for a fabulous appetizer.
Thai-style Gravlax
A new twist on an old favourite-Thai style gravlax using the exciting flavours of cilantro, lemongrass, kaffir lime, corinader seed, etc. Make this now for the holidays! It gets better and better as it rests in your refrigerator.
Thai-Style Rice Crackers
Thai-Style Rice Crackers recipe, serve with Peanut sauce,
Thai-Style Rice Crackers with Persimmon-Chile-Shrimp Sauce
A flavourful appetizer, perfect for a starter for your Holiday Feast.
Vong-style Peanut Dipping Sauce
One of my favourite restaurants is Vong. They serve a lovely peanut sauce with rice cakes. This is the easy to make version for home chefs.
Waterfall Pork
Waterfall pork is a classic Isan dish often eaten as an appetizer while having drinks. You can do the preparation and marinating before hand for a quick easy appetizer or entrée. This recipe can be made with beef or chicken as preferred.
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