You may be familiar with the more commercially available Thai
Kitchen curry paste brand (I use their red curry paste occasionally) but for green curry, the taste profiles are incomparable.
I use Thai
Kitchen curry paste too, and always have the same issue with using coconut milk cans.
1/4 c of the curry sauce (using lite coconut milk and 2 T f the Thai
Kitchen curry paste) has 58 calories.
Not exact matches
The red and green
curry pastes from Thai
Kitchen, along with some fish sauce and a good quality can of coconut milk, are all you really need to create authentic tasting Thai
curries at home.
Whip up an authentic Thai red
curry, a spicy stir - fry or a savory southeast Asian soup in no time with Thai
Kitchen's Red
Curry Paste.
For a
curry lover like myself, here are some pantry staples that are always in my
kitchen (and I've linked them to my favorites, not sponsored at all, just the brands I buy at the store or online): red and green
curry paste, coconut milk, cashew milk, coconut oil, and ghee.
I highly suggest the Thai
Kitchen brand red
curry paste.
I buy the Thai
Kitchen brand of red
curry paste and fish sauce (available is most supermarkets) which give pretty athentic flavors.
Servings MetricUS Imperial Ingredients 1 lb chicken thighs sliced into 1/2 inch bits1 can coconut milk3 - 4 tsp green
curry paste - whole30 approved Thai
Kitchen brand1 red onion julienned2 cloves garlic smushed1 - inch knob of ginger julienned1 / 2 zucchini julienned2 carrots...
I wimped out and used Thai
Kitchen red
curry paste out of a jar, but it was delicious and aromatic — and packed the heat I was looking for.
In Bangkok, a city with gleaming postmodern
kitchens and good ol' greasy spoons alike, one of my favorite food secrets isn't a restaurant at all, but a ramshackle shophouse selling nothing but
curry pastes.
But considering I'm no great talent in the
kitchen and this still came out better - than - okay, here's what I did: Started with onions, added garlic, mild
curry paste (instead of powder), and some chopped ginger.
1 medium yellow onion, diced 3 tablespoons Thai red
curry paste (Thai
Kitchen makes a good one.)
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 medium onion, diced 1 medium red bell pepper, diced 1 sweet potato, peeled and chopped into bite sized chunks 2 tablespoons red
curry paste 1 (14 ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk 4 cups vegetable broth 1 (13 ounce) package Ling Ling Asian
Kitchen Potstickers 2 heaping cups fresh spinach Juice from one lime Fresh cilantro, for garnish
As to the
curry paste, I went with Thai
Kitchen brand this time, and it worked out pretty good.
CURRY CAULIFLOWER / / Serves 4 From The Minimalist
Kitchen by Melissa Coleman Harissa is sold usually as more of a spice
paste, but you can also purchase it dried.
My current
curry paste is standard - issue Thai
Kitchen, available at any major supermarket.
organic, unsweetened coconut milk (I used Native Harvest brand) * 2 tablespoons red
curry paste (I used Thai
Kitchen brand) * 1 large organic sweet potato, chopped into bite - sized pieces * 1 - 2 cups turkey or chicken stock, preferably homemade * 1 tablespoon palm sugar or organic dark brown sugar * 2 tablespoons fish sauce (I used Thai
Kitchen brand) * 1 cup roast turkey, shredded or chopped into bite - sized pieces * 6 kaffir lime leaves (I used dried ones from Kalystyans in NYC) * 1 red or green chile pepper, minced * 1 bunch baby bok choy, chopped into bite - sized pieces * 1/2 -1 cup chopped fresh cilantro or Thai basil (or a combination of the two) * fresh lime juice to taste for serving - optional * sriracha or your favorite hot chile sauce for serving (I used my homemade chile garlic sauce)- optional
For the red
curry paste, I use the Thai
Kitchen brand.
1 bunch Swiss chard 1/2 tbs coconut oil 2 - 4 teaspoons Thai
kitchen red
curry paste 3/4 cup coconut milk * salt to taste
3 cups organic coconut milk - full fat (homemade or canned - I prefer Native Forest due to BPA free cans) 2 - 3 Thai chilies or 2 tsp chopped red chilies (I buy mine frozen in cubes) or red pepper flakes 2 - 4 TBL (plus) fish sauce (I use Red Boat or Thai
Kitchen) 1 tsp coconut sugar (or sucanat / rapadura) 1 TBL (plus) red
curry paste (I use Thai
Kitchen)
In honor of my love of Thai food (and the fact that I got some Thai
curry paste from the Reading Terminal back when I went to Philly), I decided to adapt this recipe in accordance to what I had in my fridge /
kitchen!