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?
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.
For those looking for more Thai recipes, click here: Appon's Thai Food
Look, Delicious Thai Green Curry
Before describing the cooking process let's take a look at some photos of Thai Green Curry. 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.
Take a look for yourself in the photographs below.
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Thai Green Curry - The Ingredients
This is the list of ingredients for Thai Green Curry as prescribed by my wife.
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 UK 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!
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Thai Green Curry - the recipe
It's as simple as that!
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For the best results cook Thai Green Curry in a wok.
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Cooking Thai Green Curry on Video
[Thaifoodmaster] Thai Green Chicken Curry - How to Make Authentic Version Recipe
Episode 3 - In this video you will learn how to prepare an authentic Thai green chicken curry. (แกงเขียวหวานไก่ Gaeng khiao Waan Gai)Thai green curry is one of the popular ambassadors of Thai food in overseas restaurants. As such the dish has suffered modifications and abuses. This video demonstrates the authentic method of creating a flavorful curry dish from scratch. You can use a commercial curry paste if you can't find the time or the ingredients to make your own. However, the homemade version will be more fragrant and flavorful.Traditionally curry pastes are being made by pureeing all the ingredients using a pestle and mortar, starting with the hardest ingredient to the softer. The paste should be as fine as possible, eliminating all the textures of the raw ingredients preserving only their flavors. The end product should have a combined, full and rounded aroma.Green curry is also popular with fish dumplings and coconut sprouts instead of chicken, and is often served with white rice, white rice vermicelli noodles and boiled salted duck eggs.
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Having mastered the art of Thai Green Curry and found how easy it is, any of these cook books will help extend ones repetoir of Thai dishes.
Simple Thai Cookery
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Original Thai Cookbook
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The Everything Thai Cookbook: From Pad Thai to Lemongrass Chicken Skewers--300 Tasty, Tempting Thai Dishes You Can Make at Home (Everything Series)
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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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- Apaihai Apaihai Oct 31, 2009 @ 2:29 am
- My favourite is Tom Yum Goong.
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- nickupton nickupton Oct 31, 2009 @ 12:22 am
- I have to confess to preferring beer Chang.[in reply to Pastiche]
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- Pastiche Pastiche Oct 19, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
- Ah, yes, Singha goes well with green curry ... and matsaman, and spicy tofu with vegetables ... etc. I do love Thai food - and am saving this recipe plus the Appon site is now bookmarked. Thank you for the "authentic" cooking tips as well.
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- Gully Gully Aug 15, 2009 @ 2:36 am
- This is one of the best dishes from Thailand, although there are plenty to choose from.
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- Kelly Pritchard Kelly Pritchard Apr 8, 2009 @ 2:12 pm
- I make Thai Green Curry a lot and your recipe is spot on. I started using ThaiKits from www.thaikit.co.uk as they supply everything you need except the chicken and vegetables. So I can always quickly make Thai food without a trip to the shops to get all the ingredients.
A really great variation is to add a green curry sauce (Paste Coconut Fish Sauce Sugar etc) to Prawn/Chicken Fried Rice, best if you make the sauce thick by just using the thicker coconut cream.
I had this once in Thailand and then copied it when I got home, tastes really great.
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