(Editor's Note: Steph made a bunch of very quick posts without really having the time to write stuff, anyone who wants details should prod her in the comments)
Red curry paste
1 tin of coconut milk
Beef (rump)
onion
garlic
chilli
capsicum
mushrooms
carrot
peas
This sounds a lot like how I make red curry. :) I have actually made the paste myself once (when I accidentally bought an excess of chilli and needed something to do with them all) but I wouldn't recommend it generally - it's fairly time consuming and fiddly. And it involves shrimp paste, which is just about the most disgusting but edible substance known to man.
ReplyDeleteBroccoli (or broccolini - I like it better than normal broccoli) also works pretty well as a green vegetable in red curry.
Broccoli(nni) sounds like it would be good with this, aye. A would bamboo shoots, green beans, etc. All of the veggies!
ReplyDeleteI think next time I will try making this with half the suggested amount of coconut milk - it's pretty rich stuff. Ever tried to make it a little lighter?
The other thing I want to master is the panang curry, but that one is probably more complicated than curry paste + coconut milk + things.
I don't usually put in a whole tin of coconut milk but not because it's too rich, more because there's just too much liquid. You can get "light" coconut milk but I have no idea what that means and have never particularly wanted to find out. Bamboo shoots would indeed be awesome - a lot of Thai restaurants put them in red curry. Not actually sure where to buy them though; you could probably get tinned ones I guess.
ReplyDeleteCoconut milk is literally just shredded coconut + water + heat that has been strained of solids. Coconut cream is just coconut milk with less water. One presumes light coconut milk is just going in the opposite direction. I might experiment with buying coconut cream and just using a few dollops.
ReplyDeleteDon't get it confused with cream of coconut, though, which is horrible sickly sweet muck used in bad piña coladas.
Heh, it turns out coconut milk is more energy dense than an avocado. That's pretty dense.
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