Thai meat recipes will allow even a novice housewife to cook a surprisingly delicious exotic dish. It turns out spicy, spicy, fragrant, so it is perfect for everyday family dinner, and for the festive table.

The main feature of this treat is the extraordinary softness and tenderness of meat

Thai style sweet and sour chicken

The most common Thai food is chicken. It allows you to make the dish also budget. It is best to take chicken fillet (300 g) for such a treat. In addition to it, the ingredients will be required: 1 pc. carrots, onions, fresh cucumbers, bell peppers, 50 g each of soy sauce and ketchup, chili pepper, 1 tbsp. l 5% vinegar and granulated sugar, salt, butter, flour for mincing meat.

  1. All vegetables must be peeled and cut into large pieces (except for chili). For example, carrots can be chopped in circles, pepper - in cubes. It is important to use all kinds of curly graters in this recipe. Especially if the dish is planned to be served at the festive table.
  2. It is very important to remove the entire moist interior from the tomatoes when slicing. Hot peppers are crushed as much as possible.
  3. Chicken fillet is cut into medium slices.
  4. For refueling, soy sauce, ketchup, sugar are mixed.
  5. Chicken fillet is salted, placed in a pan with heated vegetable oil and sequentially fried first from one side, then from the other side to a delicious crust. At the same time, the meat does not mix, but only gently turns over.
  6. The chicken is transferred to a separate plate, and in the remaining oil, chopped garlic and red pepper are first fried, and then the remaining vegetables are sent to them.
  7. After 5 minutes, the meat is returned to the pan and the pre-prepared sauce is poured. It remains to cook the dish for about 7-10 minutes, stirring gently.

There is a trick that allows you to make the appearance of the dish especially delicious and as if “glossy” (as in a restaurant). For this, 1 tsp. potato starch is mixed in 50 ml. cold water. The resulting liquid is poured into the meat with vegetables for a couple of minutes until cooked.

Beef with vegetables, cucumbers and sweet and sour sauce

 

This Thai dish is prepared with green beans (300 g). The easiest way to use it is frozen. In addition, you need to stock up on fairly rare sesame oil (20 ml.). But this ingredient is often found today in large supermarkets. In addition to these components, you will also need to use the following: 700 g beef tenderloin, 2 pcs. red onion and multi-colored bell pepper, 30 ml. apple or rice vinegar, 100 g of starch, 120 ml. soy sauce, granulated garlic, a mixture of peppers, salt.

  1. The meat is cleaned of films and cut into oblong slices.
  2. To make the beef soft and spicy, it must first be grated with salt and pepper, and then soaked for 40-50 minutes in a marinade made from soy sauce, a pinch of granulated garlic and vinegar.
  3. Finished meat is crushed in potato starch and fried in sunflower oil until golden brown. All minced vegetables (including thawed green beans) and marinade are added to the beef, after which the mixture is cooked for another 5-7 minutes.
  4. It remains to add sesame oil to the pan and after a couple of minutes the dish can be removed from the heat.

It is most convenient to fry both meat and vegetables in a special wok pan.

But, if such dishes were not at hand, the usual one will do.

Thai meat with rice

If you want to make the dish in question more satisfying, you should add white rice (150 g) to it. In this case, you will not need to come up with a separate side dish for refreshments. You need to take: 650 g beef tenderloin, 3 bell peppers of different bright colors, 3-4 cloves of garlic, a pinch of saffron, salt, 130 ml. soy sauce without additives, dried dill. The following details how to cook Thai meat with rice.

  1. The meat, sliced ​​in long slices, is pickled for about half an hour in a mixture of crushed (can be replaced with granulated) garlic and soya spicy sauce.
  2. After the specified time, the beef is fried in hot oil and again poured with marinade.
  3. Chopped pepper, salt and dill are added to the meat.
  4. Rice is boiled in salted water with saffron until half cooked, and then sent to beef with a small amount of broth. Stew together the ingredients for another 15 minutes.

The dish is served with a platter of pickled vegetables.

Pork recipe

 

Thai style pork is best cooked with plenty of fresh tomatoes (4 large tomatoes) and ginger grated on a fine grater (1 tsp). You will also need to take: 1 onion, 400 g of pork, 4-5 garlic cloves, 2 tbsp. ketchup without additives, 1 tsp any thick hot sauce, 150 ml. soy sauce, salt, a pinch of sugar.

Stages of cooking step by step:

  1. Beef cut by long strips is fried on all sides to an appetizing crust and laid on a separate plate.
  2. In the remaining oil, onions and tomatoes are cooked until soft. Lastly, ginger is added to them.
  3. After a couple of minutes, you can return the meat to the pan, and also add all the indicated sauces and ketchup, diluted in 1 tbsp. water with a pinch of sugar.
  4. All ingredients are salted and stewed together for no longer than 15 minutes.

Before serving, you can sprinkle the finished dish with finely chopped herbs.

With the addition of pineapples

With pineapple, you can cook both pork and chicken (500 g). It is also allowed to use both fresh and canned exotic fruit (400 g). Still need to take: 1 onion, 2 pcs. red bell pepper and carrots, miniature chili pepper, 100 g. roasted cashew nuts, 150 ml. soy sauce, 1 tsp. curry, 30 ml.rice vinegar and Worcester sauce.

  1. All vegetables are finely chopped (including chili peppers) and fried over high heat in vegetable oil.
  2. Sauces and rice vinegar pour into onions, peppers and carrots. Ingredients are stewed for a couple of minutes over low heat.
  3. It remains to put pineapple and small pieces of meat in a pan. If canned fruit is used, the remaining juice is poured into the container.
  4. The dish is stewed until the meat is ready. With chicken, 15-20 minutes are enough, with pork time can increase up to 35-40 minutes. At the very end, curry is sent to the pan.

The prepared Thai meat goes well with boiled rice, broccoli and green beans cooked with garlic. Before serving, the dish is sprinkled with chopped nuts.

Thai style veal

 

If you want to try a truly spicy exotic dish, you should study the Thai veal recipe. It uses pickled cucumbers (2 pcs.) And other components: 750 g. Meat without bones, 3 tbsp. corn starch, garlic to taste, 50 ml. soy sauce, 1 tablespoon mustard, red pepper, 1 tsp. salt and sugar, 1 cm. grated ginger root.

  1. The meat is cut into very tiny strips, sprinkled with starch and fried on all sides in hot oil.
  2. Sugar, salt, minced garlic, mustard, pepper and soy sauce are added to the veal.
  3. The meat is cooked in the resulting hot sauce for another 10 minutes.
  4. Before serving, ginger and thin slices of pickled cucumbers are added to the dish.

The best side dish for spicy meat is buckwheat or rice noodles.

Cooking option with coconut milk

In coconut milk (250 ml.) It is best to cook beef (500 g). In this case, the meat really turns out to be as tender and juicy as possible. In addition to these components, you must also use: 2 limes, 2 tsp. sugar, 50 g peanut butter, 1 pc. onions, sweet peppers and carrots, a pinch of coriander and curry, salt.

  1. In a container convenient for mixing, juice from 2 limes is squeezed. Curry, coriander, sugar are added to it. In this marinade, beef sliced ​​into thin strips is left for 15 minutes.
  2. The meat is fried over high heat for 3-5 minutes.
  3. Coconut milk is poured into the pan to the beef and brought to a boil. After that, the meat languishes in the liquid for a couple of minutes.
  4. It remains to add peanut butter and chopped vegetables to the bowl. All ingredients are stewed together for 15-17 minutes. The finished dish is salted to taste.

In addition to tender soft meat, a very unusual spicy gravy appears in the pan, which will complement rice, boiled potatoes or buckwheat noodles well.

It is urgent to try to combine the filling based on soy sauce with a variety of vegetables. For example, with broccoli, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, zucchini and others.

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