Thai Recipes Sacred Chef Sunshine Coast Cooking School

At our sunshine coast cooking school, the Sacred Chef produces some of the best Thai food in south east Queensland. Learn to cook Thai in an abundant and generous setting, and have some very tasty fun!

Green Paw Paw Salad

• 2 cups shredded paw paw
• 3 small dried chillies
• 1 tbspn tamarind water
• 2 tbspns lime juice
• 2 tspns palm sugar
• 1 tbspn fish sauce
• 1 cup green beans chopped 2cm segments
• 3 cherry tomatoes chopped
• 2 tbspns dried prawn
• 5 small fresh chillies
• 2 cloves garlic

In a mortar and pestle grind garlic, chillies and salt
until fine. Add prawns and puree. Add tomatoes and
beans and roughly crush, then add fish sauce, sugar,
lime juice and tamarind water. In a bowl mix
together with the paw paw and sprinkle with chilli
flakes before serving.

Grilled Prawns w Ginger &
Lemongrass

• 12 med-large prawns
• 2 tbspns finely chopped lemongrass
• 2 tbspns finely chopped ginger
• 1 tspns salt
• 1 tspn palm sugar
• 1 corander root
• 5 white peppercorns

Sauce

• 1 coriander root
• 2 cloves garlic
• 5 green chillies
• pinch salt
• 2 tbspns lime juice
• 1 tspn palm sugar
• 1 tbspns fish sauce

Grind the lemongrass, ginger, coriander roor, salt
and sugar and peppercorns together and marinate
prawns in this for 30-60 minutes. Grill prawns for
2 minutes and serve with sauce.
In a food processor or mortar and pestle grind the
sauce ingredients: coriander root, garlic, chillies and
salt until fine, then add lime juice and fish sauce.
Serve in a dipping bowl next to grilled prawns.

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