Thai cuisine…is one of the most famous cuisines in the world. Because of various herbs and raw materials used in Thai cooking, they give Thai food a unique taste and high nutritive values. This makes Thai food as the best-fitted cuisine for health concerning consumers. An increasing in healthy food consumption trends makes vegetarian food become an alternative for health lovers, especially patients with heart disease, diabetes, and high blood pressure.

Vegetarian food is a cuisine that contains no meat, or even animal products. It contains only vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and nuts. In this new era, more people tend to be vegetarian moreover, vegetarian food processing businesses are also growing.

These result in a high market potential of vegetarian food, especially for entrepreneurs in Thailand, which is a place where great amount of important resources, including raw materials and accessible cooking innovation, are available for creating tasty and healthy food.

Due to significance in health benefits of vegetarian food, researchers has created healthy Thai vegetarian recipes for further develop into ready-to-cook sauce. Main purposes are to develop ready-to-cook vegetarian sauce that preserves unique flavor of Thai herbs as well as their tastes and can be stored at room temperature.

The research has shown that development of ready-to-cook Thai food sauce (savory and sweet dishes) that can be stored at room temperature is suitable for individual Thai cooking and Thai food businesses, as well as to be used in restaurants and hotels. The ready-to-cook sauce is very convenient, especially for Thai restaurants in foreign countries where Thai herbs and vegetables are not so easy to find. Moreover, consumers are able to experience original Thai taste from the ready-to-cook sauce since unique taste and flavor of Thai herbs are still preserved in the sauce.

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  THAI VEGETERIAN FOOD

  
  

  Massaman Curry with textured vegetable protein

  The textured vegetable protein, or TVP, was first developed by the Institute of Food Research and Product Development (IFRPD) Kasetsart University. TVP can be used to create varieties of vegetarian dishes. TVP is made from 100% defatted soy flour and contains up to 50% vegetable protein, which consists of essential amino acids providing high nutritive values. In addition, TVP has a lower price when compared to regular meats.

  Ingredients for Massaman curry paste Massaman curry paste is made from red onion, garlic, dried chili, vegan shrimp paste, coriander root, lemongrass, ground coriander seed, ground cumin, galangal, ginger, salt, ground cinnamon, mace, nutmeg seed, ground pepper, clove, and bay leaf.

  Method for cooking Massaman curry using the ready-to-cook sauce First, soak tvp in water and squeeze the water out, set it aside. Empty the sauce into a pot or microwavable bowl, bring it to boil. Then, put the tvp into the boiled sauce; leave it on the heat for a little bit, then it is ready to serve.

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  THAI VEGETERIAN FOOD

  
  

  Thai Steamed Banana Cake

  Researchers have developed a vegetarian banana dessert mix using Apple banana, or Latundan banana, which is known as one of high nutritious banana varieties. The banana dessert mix can be used to prepare 2 different kinds of dessert: banana pancake and Thai style banana dessert.

  Preparations of banana dessert mix First step is to cut banana into small pieces. Apple banana used in the dessert mix is at more green than yellow ripening stage. At this stage, we start to taste sweetness of the fruit. The banana pieces are baked in a hot air oven at 70 ˚C for 4 hours, and then are grounded into banana powder. In the next step, the banana powder are mixed with other ingredients such as glutinous rice flour, arrowroot flour, sugar, coconut powder, and coconut milk powder. The banana mix is ready to be used for cooking.

  Method of cooking with banana dessert mix For banana pancake preparation, combine 100 g of banana dessert mix with 50 ml milk in a bowl. Heat up a pan and put about 2 tablespoons of the liquid mixture onto the hot pan. Wait until the flour is cooked on one side, then flip it over and wait until it is completely cooked. Remove from heat and it is ready to serve. For Thai style banana dessert, combine the banana dessert mix with coconut milk, pour the mixture into a bowl, and then steam the mixture until it is completely cooked.

  

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