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Thai Red Curry Paste

Makes 1 cup in 25 minutes (can be used 3 to 6 times in meals for 4
people)

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Paste / Asian (Thailand) / Stove / No marination

This paste can be used in the Tom Yam Kung recipe :
a delicious hot and spicy Thai Shrimp soup recipe.
http://recipe.theskinnycook.com/Soup/TomYamSoup.html

It can also be used in the recipe I will post this Wednesday :
"Red Curry-Paste Chicken"

If you can't buy Thai Curry Paste ready made,
here follows a recipe to make it yourself.

This Thai red curry paste is worth the effort,
better make sure you store it well :
Fresh Thai Curry paste will keep for up to 3 weeks
in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

TIP : Put the Thai curry paste in an ice-cube tray,
cover and freeze for several hours;
release cubes into a freezer bag.
Place the bag in the freezer and use the cubes when required.

Allow to defrost for 30 minutes at room temperature before using.
Frozen paste will keep for up to 4 months.

INGREDIENTS

- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 2 teaspoons dried shrimp paste
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 12 dried or fresh red chilies, roughly chopped
- 1 cup French shallots, chopped
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 4 stems lemon grass (white part only), finely chopped
- 12 small cloves garlic, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh coriander roots, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh coriander stems, chopped
- 6 kaffir lime leaves, chopped
- 2 teaspoons grated lime rind
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2 teaspoons turmeric
- 1 teaspoon paprika

PREPARATION

1. Place the coriander and cumin seeds in a dry frying pan and
heat for 2-3 minutes, shaking the pan constantly.
2. Place the roasted spices and peppercorns in a mortar and pestle
or clean (coffee) grinder and work them until they are finely
ground.
3. Wrap the shrimp paste in a small amount of foil and cook under a hot
grill
for 3 minutes, turning the package twice.
4. Process the ground spices, roasted shrimp paste, nutmeg and chilies
in a food processor for 5 seconds.
5. Add the remaining ingredients and process for 20 seconds at a time,
scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula each time,
until the mixture forms a smooth paste.
6. Store in your fridge or freezer.

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Why not stop by the local Thai restaurant and simply buy it direct from them
made when you need it? Fresh and fast... Assuming you have a good place
nearby like I do.
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My wife is Thai. So, we buy a lot of Thai food. Here in Minnesota
Red Curry (brand - Aroy D) is available at the largest SuperMarket - Cub
Foods for about $1.39 a can. (Cub foods is owned by SuperValu stores.) She
also found that we were able to buy Thai herbs as potted plants at the local
farmer's market for a cost of $1.00 or $2.00 each. Every so often, she
would strip a couple of leaves add them to something, water the plants and
they would repopulate the leaves in a few weeks.

"Grinch" > wrote in message
. net...
> wrote...
> > If you can't buy Thai Curry Paste ready made,
> > here follows a recipe to make it yourself.
> >
> > This Thai red curry paste is worth the effort,
> > better make sure you store it well :
> > Fresh Thai Curry paste will keep for up to 3 weeks
> > in an airtight container in the refrigerator.

>
> It sounds very good, I love red curry paste and use it to make
> Thai peanut sauce. But the recipe is so complicated, and I
> saw a cooking show where they make Indian curry and it also
> required several dozen ingredients. Unless you eat curry for
> breakfast, lunch, and dinner 365 days a year, it is much more
> practical to buy the cans or powders. I personally buy the
> canned Maesri red curry for $0.69 and I saw it online for $0.99.
> I bought a large bag of imported Indian curry powder for about
> $2 recently, the individual ingredients would have cost me a
> fortune.
>
> If you can find kaffir lime leaves, you certainly can find
> imported Thai curry pastes.



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I agree,
some of therecipes are quite long,

yet try this one : short, simple and also delicious.

Making Thai Red Curry Paste with only Fresh Ingredients

Ingredients:

* 1 teaspoon Kaffir lime peel
* 1 teaspoon Galangal root, peeled and sliced thin
* 2 tablespoons Lemon grass sliced thin
* 4-5 large cloves Garlic, peeled
* 10 very small Shallots, peeled
* 1 tablespoon Coriander root, chopped
* 9 dried long red peppers (if you want it less spicy hot : Part of
this amount may be substituted by red paprika powder - not
as hot and improves the colour.)

Preparation:

Pound all the above in a mortar. Start with the more dry ingredients
and end with shallots and garlic.

This may also be done in a blender but the amount should be
doubled or tripled as this is a small recipe an the blender blades
won't catch a small amount and you can easily store it for later use.

Stef
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