{"id":110412,"title":"Easy Thai Dressing","modified":"2025-10-29T17:04:06+01:00","plain":"Use this simple, four-ingredient Thai dressing to make your favorite authentic Thai salads. Adjust the ratios to taste\u2014add more sweet, sour, salty, or spicy notes.\n\n\n\nThai salads are different from Western-style salads. Even though we call them \u201csalads,\u201d they\u2019re not often made with lettuce or other greens, and they usually focus on balancing the core flavors of Thai cuisine: sweet, sour, salty, and spicy.\n\n\n\nWhen I visited Thailand, these salads were perfect for lunch. On very hot days, they\u2019re satisfying and refreshing, delivering a big burst of flavor to carry you through the afternoon.\n\n\n\nA little cilantro in the dressing works wonders\n\n\n\nAnd this dressing is what delivers that fabulous flavor.\n\n\n\nThe beauty of mastering this simple dressing is that you can take the basic recipe below and tweak it until it tastes exactly the way you like. Don\u2019t like heat? Reduce the amount of chili ! Prefer things more tart than sweet? Add more lime juice!\n\n\n\nOnce you\u2019ve made this dressing, you\u2019re just a few ingredients away from truly amazing Thai salads like Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam), Spicy Thai Pomelo Salad (Yam Som O), Glass Noodle Salad (Yam Woon Sen), or the famous Thai Beef Salad (Nam Tok).\n\n\n\nThai Green Papaya Salad\n\n\n\nHere\u2019s how to make it!\n\n\n\nIngredients for Thai Dressing\n\n\n\n\nThai chilies: These small, super-spicy chilies are the traditional source of heat in this dressing. Be careful! They can burn your hands. If needed, swap in other chilies to your taste.\u00a0\n\n\n\nPalm sugar: Palm sugar is less sweet than white sugar and is the traditional sugar used in Thai cooking. It\u2019s easy to find at an Asian grocery and is dried into small discs. The great thing about this sugar is its flavor: slightly citrusy with a hint of caramel. If you don\u2019t have palm sugar, try brown sugar instead.\n\n\n\nLime juice: It wouldn\u2019t be Thai cooking without plenty of fresh lime juice.\n\n\n\nFish sauce: Fish sauce adds loads of classic Thai savory depth. Don\u2019t be afraid of this rich, flavorful ingredient.\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\tEasy Thai Vinaigrette\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\n\t\t2 Thai chilies, thinly sliced2 tablespoons palm sugar3 tablespoons lime juice1 tablespoon fish sauceOptional1 tablespoon chopped cilantro\t\n\t\n\t\tWhisk together by hand or blend until combinedServe and enjoy\t\n\t\n\t\tKeeps for about 5 days in the fridge.\nTaste and adjust the balance to your liking.\n\t\n\t\n\t\tVinaigretteTha\u00eflandaise","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110551,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110412\/revisions\/110551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcwiner.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}