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How To Make Thai Green Curry

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Thai Green Curry - Most Popular Thai Food?

Thai Green Curry (Gaeng Kieow Waan) is perhaps the most popular of all Thai dishes with foreigners, certainly after thirteen years living in Thailand it is still one of my favourites. Indeed at various times Thai Green Curry has been voted the number one fast food in the United Kingdom. Actually, to refer to Thai Green Curry a fast food is in fact rather misleading as any meal made from fresh, healthy ingredients such as go into a Thai Green Curry is a long way removed from the junk foods that I would consider as fast foods - have you tried it?

Traditionally, green curry is a pale, creamy green curry and contains chicken, lemongrass, coriander, lime and eggplant. This combination makes for a wonderful fusion of flavours, textures and colours.

Thai Green Curry is one of three Thai dishes you should try when in Bangkok.

Here I describe, with the help of my wife, the ingredients and how to cook the meal: in fact, a recipe for Thai Green Curry.

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Thai Green Curry - The Ingredients

This is the list of ingredients for an authentic Thai Green Curry as prescribed by my wife

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With Thai food growing in popularity it is now relatively easy to find the basic ingredients for any Thai dish in most western countries. When I first took my wife (she's from Bangkok) into a supermarket in Britain she was quite shocked (and very pleased) to find Thai staples such as Fish Sauce, Coconut Milk, Chillies, Lemongrass and Jasmine Rice all stocked.

So, get down to the shops and buy the following to make your own delicious Thai Green Curry; even I can do it and I once cooked a pie in its plastic wrapper!
  • 1-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon of soft dark brown sugar
  • 2 lemongrass stalks
  • 500g/1lb boneless chicken
  • 6-8 kaffir lime leaves
  • 1 eggplant
  • 400ml/14fl oz coconut milk
  • Thai fish sauce
  • coriander
  • 0.5-1 lime
  • 2 tablespoons of green curry paste - for those that are concerned about not getting an authentic taste, don't worry, most Thais buy theirs from the market or a shop!

    • How are you going to chop all the Thai Green Curry ingredients?

    One problem about Thai cooking, and Asian cuisine in general, is the amount of preparation needed before cooking, particularly chopping. I have always found it a good idea to chop everything up before starting and because of this and the variety of ingredients that must be chopped, a selection of chopping boards is a good idea.

    By using multiple chopping boards, each set of ingredients (meat, spices etc) has its own board and they can be put into the wok easily when it is time for each one.
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    Thai Green Curry - The Recipe

    Anyone can cook Thai Green Curry

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  • Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan.

  • Add the green curry paste and sugar and cook over a fairly high heat for about a minute, stirring with the lemongrass, if using.

  • Reduce the heat slightly and stir in the chicken pieces and lime leaves or zest until coated in the paste.

  • Add the coconut milk, fish sauce or soy sauce and bring to a simmer, cooking for 25-30 minutes until thickened slightly.

  • Stir in the coriander and lime juice.

  • Check for seasoning, adding more fish sauce or soy sauce if needed.

  • The curry is now best left to sit for a few minutes so the sauce becomes creamier; you will taste the true flavours of the curry paste ingredients when it's slightly cooler.

  • Serve with lots of fragrant Thai jasmine rice.

    • It's as simple as that!

    For the best results cook Thai Green Curry in a wok.

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    Watch how to cook Thai Green Curry

    If the recipe is not simple enough for you then here is a video to watch. It is a slightly different recipe but close enough.
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    Mmmmmmm, beer!

    The flavours of Thai food lend themselves to being accompanied by beer (I am not making this up). Typically, in Thailand, people drink Thai lager with Thai Green Curry.

    In Thailand Singha Beer is the biggest selling lager and most commonly consumed with food. However, there are other Thai beers including Beer Chang and Leo Beer. If you can't obtain these your local lager will be a perfectly good substitute.

    Read about different beers in Thailand here: Thai Beer Brands Test.

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