The Ultimate Guide to PALM SUGAR - Hot Thai Kitchen

Palm sugar is an integral ingredient in Thai cooking. It's the "original sugar" used in traditional cooking before granulated sugar became a thing. In this video I talk about everything you need to know: What is palm sugar? Is it the same as coconut sugar? How is palm sugar made? Are there different grades of palm sugar? And more!

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About Pai:

Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the YouTube channel Pailin's Kitchen.

Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her "playtime" in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.

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[Nicky]

I love the way that you teach us Thai words too 😊

[Durojes]

When buying Thai palm sugar in the states I like to take those pucks and make a thick simple syrup. 1:1 sugar to water, cooked down until slightly thicker than real maple syrup. It scales for recipes in the same manner and lasts for months in an airtight container, like a mason jar. Love your channel. keep up the great work!

[SnackPacks]

You are such a lifesaver haha. Been making your Thai green curry recipe very often for the past several months, getting better and better at it and more and more close to having all the ingredients. I've never cooked Thai food before so it took a while to get all the ingredients, I've been a bit confused by palm sugar due to the form it comes in so I'm soooo relieved when I searched for palm sugar on YouTube and u had a video about it. So grateful omg. Thank you for teaching me all about the wonders of delicious Thai food 🙏💖😭

[naanamora]

Bought palm sugar today and an hour later saw this episode. Can’t take it back but good to know for next time. Thanks for sharing

[trellofello]

This video is amazing! I learned SO much and I’m grateful for the time and research put into bringing this knowledge to us 🙏🏼

[ameenaaneesh]

Hello Pailin! Great to see you after a while. Hope your baby is doing fine ❤❤. By the way, after the agar agar video, this is my second favourite informative video.

I'm from South India. We use jaggery (sugarcane) - dark and light in most of our desserts and few savoury vegetarian curries. The purest form comes in Jam form. Commonly available Jaggery is in the form of blocks. We add water accordingly to it, melt it, filter it (solid dirt can be found) and store it in the refrigerator in liquid form.

Palm Jaggery comes in the semi spherical, dark, toasty tasted form. That's used only for medicinal purposes, such as ginger coffee and herbal medicines. Palm candy is given to children for cough and cold.

[kavithasivasamy]

Personally, I find that the palm sugar at Sri Lankan grocery stores (not Indian grocery stores) is purer than the palm sugar at Asian and even Thai grocery stores overseas. Make sure you ask for 'kitthul' and not 'jaggery'. Traditionally, blocks of palm sugar in srilanka are wrapped in a net of palm reeds (if you see that stuff it's the best version of palm sugar).

[n.ayisha]

great video. i have been hesitant to purchase palm sugar because i had no idea what to look for, and now i know. i really like the way you presented this. you are a natural teacher, and it shows.

[jennychyeo]

Excellent explanation. Educational.
Now I understand the ingredients better for use. Thank you.

[MrJfortun]

Wish I had watched this beforegoing shopping for some palm sugar. All I found was heavily adulterated with white sugar. Watched this video and went looking for some 100% pure palm sugar and found that Red Boat sells it on amazon in a jar. It just arrived and wow is that good and different from what I was able to get in my local asian market.

[rtongcn]

I love your ingredient series! I recently made a couple of your recipes for my husband’s Thai coworkers and they loved them! Thank you for helping me earn kitchen street cred!

[kungfuwife]

Thanks, Pailin! Just got my first bag of palm sugar pucks for pad thai and you answered them all!

[BHives]

Knowing a home producer upcountry, buy a big bucket filled to the top, 100% pure is soft, spreadable and melts not dissolves in your mouth. It is wonderful.

[Yybini]

I just back from Bangkok like there very much

[zulemazahir]

I'm using palm sugar I've had sitting around for a long time, to make kaya for my first time also. I must say this video is incredible! Extremely interesting, great lighting and sound etc etc.

Definitely subscribing and excited to watch more videos!

[littlefever]

This was exactly what I needed, thank you : ) For another ingredient series i would LOVE to hear about cilantro/coriander as it seems there are many versions out there, and I cant find the one and most amazing version I had in Thailand. Been looking and searching, but maybe you have the info <3

[MLLL]

I love this...I learned something new!!

[Sam-ulzq]

Had no idea, thanks for the explanation

[pfhvqws]

Sounds like a good product to have available in an online store.