These Mother's Day is sure to put a smile on your mother's face! She'll love all of these special recipes from the Thai kitchen, so just pick and choose the ones that appeal to you. Making a Mother's Day brunch, lunch, or dinner at home is far better than taking your mom to one of those crowded restaurants where everything is overpriced and the food merely mediocre. Instead, make your mom a special menu yourself - one that she will long remember!
1. Easy Coconut Pancakes
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These coconut pancakes are quick and easy to fry up. More like crepes in their thinness, coconut pancakes such as these are sold as a snack food at the marketplaces in Thailand. I find they make a great weekend breakfast/brunch dish, especially with a little syrup poured over. They're lighter than traditional pancakes, which is perfect if you're serving other dishes as well. Enjoy!
2. Thai Crab Cakes
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These Thai crab cakes are guaranteed to please everyone at your table, including your mom. You will definitely be wowed by how deliciously moist these crab cakes are, plus they're imbued with wonderful Thai flavors. This crab cake recipe makes an elegant appetizer or entree to serve guests, but is also easy enough to cook as an everyday treat. Enjoy!
3. Easy Tom Yum Soup
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Want to make your mother something exotic? How about some wonderful Tom Yum Soup? This soup is oh so delicious, and you can make it as spicy or mild as your mom would prefer. The coconut milk makes it creamy-delicious and full of flavor. It's also a very healthy and energizing soup. Enjoy!
4. Quick & Easy Tossed Green Salad (with Coconut Dressing)
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This easy tossed green salad recipe can be put together in a matter of minutes. Served as an appetizer or side dish, this simple tossed salad includes an easy salad dressing recipe that's delicious, fresh, and slightly creamy but also low in fat and calories. And it can be made as mild as your mother would like it.
5. Easy Cucumber Salad
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This cucumber salad recipe is easy to make and brimming with the quintessential tastes of Thai cooking. And it takes only 10 minutes to make. (This is my mother-in-law's favorite salad, so I think your mother will like it too!). Enjoy!
6. Roasted Lemon Chicken (Easy!)
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Roast chicken with a Thai twist! This roast chicken recipe is fragrant and moist, and imbued with the flavors of lemon and coconut milk (wonderful served with the coconut rice listed below). Your mom will simply love it!
7. Easy BBQ Ribs
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This special Thai Barbecue Ribs recipe turns out tangy-sticky good! Based on Chinese barbeque ribs, this Thai version is even more flavorful and tender. The marinade/bbq sauce is very easy to stir together, then just grill up the ribs for a special treat everyone in the family will love.
8. Classic Grilled Chicken
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This barbecue chicken recipe is truly bursting with flavor! Marinated in a garlicky sweet and sour sauce, the chicken pieces are then easily barbecued or oven-baked to perfection. Add my special homemade Thai sauce as either a dipping sauce or a glaze, and this dish will be the life of your dinner or lunch party. Your mom will be sure to enjoy it!
9. Easy Grilled Salmon with Coconut Sambal
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This fantastic recipe for grilled salmon is easy to make and tastes truly heavenly. The Thai marinade is a perfect match for the richness of salmon, enhancing and bringing out all of its naturally succulent taste. If your mother likes fish, treat her to this special recipe!
10. Fragrant Coconut Rice
Coconut rice makes a terrific accompaniment to most Thai dishes including Lemongrass Roast Chicken. Although you can make coconut rice in a rice cooker, this recipe teaches you how to make it the old fashioned way: in a pot on the stove. Quick and easy, this coconut rice recipe will come in handy for those times when you want to make dinner extra special without going to a lot of extra work. Your mom will enjoy its light coconutty flavor!
