Thai Red Curry Recipe: Know How To Prepare It At Your Home

Instructions

Making of Thai Red Curry Paste

• Take 3 dry red chilies, 2-3 bird's eye chilies, roughly chopped garlic cloves, 2 pearl onions, 2 teaspoons of coriander seeds, 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds and black peppercorns in a blending jar.
• Also, add 3 chopped kaffir lime leaves and 2 lemongrass stalks.
• Add 1 teaspoon of soya sauce, ½ teaspoon of lemon zest and 2 tablespoon coconut milk. You can also add water.
• Now add salt as per taste.
• Grind all the ingredients till you get a semi-fine paste.

Making Thai Red Curry

• In a pan, heat 2 tablespoons of sesame or coconut oil.
• Once the oil gets heated, add the Thai paste that you prepared.
• Sauté for two minutes while keeping the flame medium.
• Now add 2 cups of chopped veggies.
• After this, add white mushrooms and mix well.
• You can also add veggies of your choice.
• After this, add ½ cup of thick coconut milk. Mix well.
• Make sure you keep the flame low.
• Keep stirring the ingredients in the pan and then add 1 ⅕ cups of water. You can add more water as required. Mix again.
• Since we had already added the salt to the Thai curry paste, we don't need to add more amounts of salt.
• However, if you need more salt, then do the same as per your taste.

Cooking Thai Red Curry

• After you have mixed the veggies with the paste, cover the pan with a lid.
• Let the curry simmer on medium-high flame.
• Cook the curry till the vegetables are cooked.
• Once the vegetables are cooked and get tender, reduce the flame and add ½ cup of thick coconut milk.
• After this, add ¼ teaspoon of unrefined cane sugar. However, this step is optional.
• Mix well. Cook till the curry comes to a boil while on medium-low flame.
• Add 1 tablespoon of chopped Thai basil leaves.
• Stir well and turn off the flame.
• Serve the Thai red curry with lemongrass rice or steamed basmati or jasmine rice.