Two hot Thai dishes to take your dinner up a notch this week

Thai food is all about the flavour and we're here for it! Food expert, Pailin Chongchitnant shares two delicious Thai-inspired dishes that are perfect to serve up to the entire family. 

Vegetarian Pounded Corn & Cucumber Salad

Green papaya salad, or som tum, is Thailand’s most famous salad, but it’s just one of many types of tum, or pounded salads. Corn is a favorite non-papaya ingredient in a tum because the sweetness of the corn matches perfectly with the tart and spicy dressing. A tum usually contains fish sauce and dried shrimp, but I’ve made this one vegetar- ian, and it is just as fantastic. If you eat eggs, try it with the salted duck eggs, which add pops of creamy saltiness that I absolutely love.

No-skewer chicken satay

Omitting the dreaded part of satay, the skewering, instantly makes this dish weeknight-friendly. Throw the chicken on the grill or pan-sear it indoors.