Thai Green Curry

My favorite Thai dish is Green Curry. This what I always get every time I get Thai. I recently realized that I can actually make it myself! It was wonderfully yummy :)

The dish is fairly simple to make. All I did was throw the ingredients in a food processor than slowly cook the paste with coconut milk. The hardest part was perhaps finding all the ingredients. Don't be afraid, they are all in the Asian supermarket. 


This recipe is based on this original recipe


Thai Green Curry
Ingredients-

• 1 cup chicken, sliced thin
• 1/2 cup of shrimp, peeled and deveined
• 3/4 teaspoon sugar
• 4 eggplants
• 2 bell pepper, julienned
• 1 cup of string beans
• 1 jar of sliced bamboo shoots
• 1 red & 1 green Thai chili
• 2 tablespoons packed thai basil leaves (8-10 leaves)
• 3 cups coconut milk

Green Curry Paste

• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 1 teaspoon ginger, sliced into slivers
• 2 teaspoons lime skin, sliced into slivers
• 1 1/2 tablespoons lemongrass, bottom of the stalk, sliced into rounds
• 1 1/2 tablespoons shallots, skin removed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons garlic, skin removed
• 2 1/2 tablespoons green small thai chili, whole
• 3/4 teaspoon shrimp paste

Blend in all the ingredients for the green curry paste. Then cook the paste in the wok. Once the paste begin to dry out, pour in coconut milk half a cup at a time until there is only 1 cup of coconut milk left. Put in all the veggies and meat in and let it simmer for 15 mins. Before the dish is done, put in the two thai chili and basil in, then pour the rest of the coconut milk in. Let it boil and the dish is all done.

Happy eating!