Veg Thai Red Curry
Measurement: 1 Cup = 180 ml
Serves: 2 to 3
Ingredients:
- Thai red curry paste – 2 tbsp
- Onion (diced) – 1
- Bell pepper (diced) – 1
- Vegetables of your choice (broccoli, carrot, french beans, cauliflower, mushrooms, baby corn, zucchini, eggplant, tomato) – as per your requirement
- Kaffir lime leaves – 2
- Pandanus leaf – 2″piece
- Coconut oil/ refined oil – 1 tbsp
- Coconut milk (thick) – 250 ml pack
- Corn flour/ maida – 1.5 tsp
- Water/ vegetable stock – 1 cup
- Sugar – 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Boil vegetables except mushrooms and tomatoes, keep aside
- Heat oil and saute onion.
- Add thai red curry paste, saute it.
- Add bell pepper and mushrooms.
- Add water/ vegetable stock and bring it to boil.
- Add boiled vegetables.
- Add cornflour/ maida by mixing with water.
- Add kaffir lime leaves and pandanus leaf.
- Pour coconut milk.
- Add tomatoes.
- Add sugar and salt to taste.
- Simmer for 5 min and serve hot with steamed rice.
- Coriander seeds – 1/4 tsp
- Cumin seeds – 1/4 tsp
- White peppercorns – 1.5 tsp
- Red spur chillies/Kashmiri mirchi – 5
- Galangal (sliced) – 1.5 tsp
- Garlic cloves (chopped) – 8
- Shallots (sliced) – 2 or small red onion (chopped) – 1
- Coriander roots and stem (chopped) – 1 tsp
- Lemongrass stalk (chopped) – 1 tsp
- Kaffir lime peel/ kaffir lemon peel (only the green portion) of 1/3rd lemon
- Salt – 1/4 tsp
- Soak red chillies in warm water for at least 20 min.
- Take a mortar and pestle, pound ingredients numbering 1 to 3. Keep the powder aside.
- Cut red chillies into small pieces and pound them.
- Add remaining ingredients one by one and pound.
- Add dry powder that was kept aside to it and pound slightly.
- Use the paste for making curry.
- The other two flavours of the curry are yellow and green.
- Pandanus leaf is the one, which smells like basmati rice. It is contained in the thai fresh herbs mix pack.
- Pineapple can also be used in the preparation of curry.
- Use of mortar and pestle is very important to get the proper taste. Use of blender does not give a good taste.
- These pastes are readily available in super stores / hyper markets.