Top Thai Pastes & Sauce Recipes

Thai green curry paste is surprisingly easy to make, and it's so much healthier & fresher-tasting than the store-bought variety. Added to your favorite meats or seafood, noodles, vegetables, tofu, or wheat gluten, this paste will create sumptuous curries. Or use it to make delicious soups or noodle dishes. 

Thai yellow curry paste is so versatile, you'll want to try it with a variety of meat, seafood, vegetarian, noodle and soup recipes. This fragrant yellow curry paste makes Thai food easy to prepare and quick as well, especially if you make the paste ahead of time and keep it on hand in the refrigerator. 

This Thai red curry paste recipe is EASY to make from scratch. Homemade curry paste makes for tastier curries, and they're much healthier too. Red curry paste makes for excellent Thai curry, including curry chicken and seafood curries, beef curry, vegetarian curries, and fish curry.

Although you can buy the famous Thai chili paste "nam prik pao" in most Asian food stores, I prefer making my own homemade version. This way there are no preservatives and I get to add my own healthy oil. There are hundreds of versions of homemade nam prik pao in Thailand - each cook makes it his or her own way, so have fun experimenting with this recipe and making it your own.

Instead of buying sweet chili sauce, try making this easy recipe! It only takes a few minutes to put together, and you can find everything you need for it in your pantry or at your local supermarket.  Makes a a superb condiment for many Thai dishes - excellent with noodles, plus chicken, fish and seafood. Also wonderful as a marinade for grilling or as a dip for finger foods. Try it with grilled fish, chicken or chicken wings, shrimp, spring rolls, fresh rolls, etc... Enjoy!

While most Western versions of peanut sauce are made with peanut butter, this Thai peanut sauce recipe starts with real peanuts - and you'll taste the difference! At the same time, it's super easy and quick to make. This peanut sauce can be used for a variety of purposes, from a dip for veggies to a sauce for chicken or beef satay. Or use it to make a yummy cold noodle salad or marinade.

This Mango Sauce/Dip is easy to make, and always gets rave reviews when I serve it.  Use as a dip for cooked shrimp (great with coconut shrimp!), calamari, spring rolls or fresh rolls, or whatever appetizers you happen to be serving up. You can also use this mango sauce in stir-fries such as mango chicken or shrimp stir fry.

Looking for a Thai sauce to use as a marinade, glaze, stir-fry sauce, or dip? Try this tangy Thai sauce recipe! Great over chicken, pork, fish, shrimp and shellfish as well as tofu, this Thai sauce also makes an incredible marinade and dipping sauce. A balance of sweet and sour, spicy and salty, this sauce imbues foods with loads of flavor without adding a lot of extra calories. Also wonderful for grilling nearly anything!