Green Curry (Gaeng Keow Wan) - East Asian Recipe

Green Curry (Gaeng Keow Wan)

🌍 East Asian, Thailand Difficulty: ●●●○○

Green curry is the most herbaceous of Thai curries — color comes from fresh green chilies, not blue-green additives.

Ingredients

• (Green curry paste) 10 green chilies
• 4 shallots
• 4 garlic
• 2 tbsp lemongrass
• 1 tbsp galangal
• 1 tsp kaffir lime zest
• 1 tsp shrimp paste
• 1 tsp white pepper
• cilantro root. Curry: 400ml coconut milk
• 300g chicken thigh
• 2 Thai eggplants
• 100g bamboo shoots
• kaffir lime leaves
• fish sauce
• palm sugar
• Thai basil

Method

1. Pounding — Pound all paste ingredients in mortar or blend to smooth paste.
2. Frying — Fry paste in thick coconut cream (from top of can) until fragrant and oil separates.
3. Adding — Add chicken, remaining coconut milk, bamboo shoots, eggplant, lime leaves.
4. Simmering — Simmer 15 min. Season with fish sauce and palm sugar.
5. Step 5 — Finish with Thai basil.

Tags: 10 green chilies, shallots, garlic, lemongrass, galangal · Source: Brittani's Almanac