Authentic Thai Recipe Ingredient: Tomato
Tomato
มะเขือเทศ (Makhuea thet; Ma kua tet)
Literally meaning "foreign eggplant", Makhuea thet is used in salad such as Som tam, as an ingredient in stir-fries such as in Thai fried rice, but also cooked to a thick sauce as in the chilli paste Nam phrik ong.