Notes about Recipes in this book

• Grilled fish with fresh herbs in banana leaf packets

  • metacritic on June 07, 2020

    This is a terrific technique. I substituted foil for the banana leaf, lacked lemongrass, but have lemon basil growing in the garden. The fish was perfectly moist. The herbs, shallots, lime leaves, and chilies scattered on the fish resulted in a dish that revealed changing flavors in each bite. Really simple and absolutely delicious.

• Grilled stingray with chile paste on banana leaves

  • metacritic on June 14, 2020

    This is a fabulous recipe. I used the 4 dried long Thai chilies called for but not the additional 6-8 birds eye chilies. Even so, it still had good heat. Also reduced the shrimp paste from 1 tbsp to 1 tsp, which was just right for me. Will be making this again over the summer.

• Grilled oysters with crispy shallots, green onion oil, and peanuts

  • dosojosazules on February 16, 2023

    This is our favorite grilled oyster recipe. Everything comes together so nicely

• Grilled chicken and spicy carrot salad with sticky rice and sweet chile sauce

  • Stephenn31 on May 16, 2026

    Another excellent recipe. The chicken is flavourful and the carrot salad is an excellent side. I normally don’t like overly sweet commercial sweet Thai chili sauce and was surprised with how much I loved this home made version

• Grill-charred braised chicken thighs

  • Kduncan on October 20, 2020

    We really enjoyed these, though I over charred the skin side. The boiling in water before helped keep the chicken more moist then if I just had straight grilled them.

• Grilled stuffed chicken wings

  • Manfred on August 09, 2025

    A little bit tricky to remove the bone but with a sharp knife and a bit patience no problem. After the second, I was in a flow

• Grilled chicken skewers with sweet-and-sour curry sauce

  • Stephenn31 on June 14, 2025

    The sauce was excellent. Very flavourful. I used light coconut milk so it had to cook down longer. I used about half the brow sugar which was sweet enough for me. Also served with chopped tomato, radish, and cucumber pickled in rice vinegar. Would make again

• Satay of baby back ribs with peanut sauce

  • DFarnham on May 31, 2021

    Fantastic! Used panang curry paste in peanut sauce, and increased for more heat. Ribs were done in Traeger smoker for 4 hours and St. Louis style ribs. They really didn't even need the sauce. New favorite recipe!

• Grilled skirt steaks with spicy roasted tomato sauce

  • jenburkholder on May 15, 2025

    She has slightly different versions of this in two books, and on Serious Eats. I mostly followed this one, though used strip steak instead of skirt. Only marinated a couple hours. I toasted and ground whole dried chiles as I didn't think I had the right type of chile flakes for this. Really enjoyed the sauce, and the steak was good though we slightly overcooked it, so wasn't as juicy as I would have wanted. Quite good, though, would consider repeating. Served with rice and a Thai fried egg salad (one of my all-time favorites).

• Phanaeng-curry beef skewers with grilled pumpkin

  • Kduncan on November 04, 2020

    Used Pumpkin Pie Squash. The hardest part of this recipe is cutting the dang pumpkin, totally killed my arm. We liked this, the sauce though is really what makes this recipe sing.

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