The name “Mae Ploy” is derived
from the main character from a series of stories written by Kukrit
Pramoj.
In the stories Mae Ploy guarded Thai culture and heritage during the reign of
King Rama V. Due to her strong character and her aim to preserve the
authenticity of Thailand, her name was chosen for the brand, the company was
established in 1993, producing a wide range of authentic Thai products, from
curry sauces to dipping sauces.
Thai
curry refers both to dishes
in Thai cuisine that are made with various
types of curry
paste and to the pastes themselves.
A
Thai curry dish is made from curry paste, coconut
milk or water, meat, seafood,
vegetables or fruit, and herbs. Curries in Thailand mainly differ from the
curries in Indian
cuisine in their use of ingredients
such as herbs and aromatic leaves over a mix of spices. Dishes that are known to us as
"Thai curries" in the Western world are called kaeng in Thailand (also written as gaeng; Thai).
The spiciness of a Thai curries depends on
the amount of chili used in the making of the paste, and the amount of paste
you add, even within one type of curry the spiciness can be
very different, you
may find that that
a curry you would eat in Europe is fairly mild
however compared to Thailand where this would be much more
spicy.
Some
Thai curries are better
known today by the color
rather than the traditional names used in the past, and although they are all
basically the same base ingredients, there are slight variations.
Curries
are normally eaten in with rice, the long-grained jasmine
rice is popular in central and southern
Thailand ,and sticky
rice in the northern and north
eastern parts
Thailand, and parts
Thailand sometimes with noodles
such as khano
chin (fermented rice noodles).
Certain curries can also be eaten with roti, the Thai version of the
Indian-style fried flat bread from Malaysia called a roti
canai.
Thai
Curries include, Red, Green, Yellow, Massaman, Panang, Kang Pa just.
Ingredients
Green Chili, Lemongrass, Garlic, shallot,
Galangal, Shrimp paste, Kaffier lime, Coriander, Cumin, Turmeric
Red:
Dried Red Chili, Garlic, Shallot, Salt, Lemongrass,, Sugar, Kaffier Lime,
Galangal, coriander seeds, Cumin Cardamon, Citric Acid
Fun
Facts: The
original curry pre-dates Europeans' presence in India by about 4,000 years, Curry is described in a mid-17th
century cookbook as a "spice blend”
called kari podi
