Yam pla duk fu, with the green mango dressing in a bowl on the sideĮxamples of yam style salads are yam nuea yang with sliced grilled beef, yam khai dao with fried egg, yam tale with mixed seafood, yam mu yo with a pork sausage resembling liverwurst, or yam wunsen with glass noodles. Very often, sliced tomatoes are also added in, or finely sliced fresh spices such as lemongrass, ginger, galangal, or khamin khao (lit. When herbs are used, it is usually Chinese celery, sometimes in combination with other fresh herbs such as spearmint, coriander leaves, spring onions and culantro. Besides the main ingredient, the basic recipe of a yam will nearly always contain sliced fresh shallots or onions, fish sauce, lime juice, sugar, and fresh or dried chillies. ![]() ![]() The main ingredient can be raw, pickled, fermented, sun-dried, smoked, steamed, parboiled, boiled, grilled, baked, stir-fried, deep-fried, or combinations. Nearly any type of protein, vegetable, fruit, herb, spice, and noodle, or combinations thereof, is possible. Yam can be made with a wide variety of ingredients as its main ingredient. Yam ( ยำ, Thai pronunciation: ) literally means "mix," but in Thai cuisine, it usually refers to a type of salad-like dishes in the culinary repertoire of Thailand. Many Thai salads, for instance, the famous som tam, are also eaten as a meal or snack on their own. Specialised khao tom kui (plain rice congee) restaurants also serve a wide variety of Thai salads of the yam type as side dishes. Thai salads are not served as entrées but are normally eaten as one of the main dishes in a Thai buffet-style meal, together with rice (depending on the region, this can be glutinous rice or non-glutinous rice) or the Thai rice noodle called khanom chin. Similar to salads in the West, these dishes often have a souring agent, usually lime juice, and feature the addition of fresh herbs and other greens in their preparation. Thai salads often do not have raw vegetables or fruit as their main ingredient but use minced meat, seafood, or noodles instead. A few other dishes can also be regarded as being a salad. In Thai cuisine these are called yam, tam, lap and phla. ![]() Salads that are internationally known as Thai salads with a few exceptions fall into four main preparation methods.
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