Thai green curry recipe. Heaven on earth!

Thai green curry

Recently, one Thai cuisine has been awarded the best world dish. It is called Masaman. That is one of the Thai curry menu. But today I will recommend another famous and I think more famous among westerners who love to have Thai food and it has been served in all Thai restaurants. This is Thai green curry. Curry is used in many cuisines including Indian, Malaysian, and Japanese food. The flavour is different from nations to nations. Thai curry dishes is relatively hot and spicy (except Masaman, that is the reason why it is famous among non-Thai who cannot eat too hot and spicy dish). The colours in Thai curry dish are different due to the added ingredient. Green curry paste used green bird chillies and other green herbs. Red curry used red bird chillies to make it red. There are many other varieties that are famous among each regions of Thailand that I do not know them very well.

Thai green curry is among the easy to cook as I used the ready mixed curry paste. It is quite difficult to do it fresh because I cannot find all ingredients to make the paste. The problem is each brand tasted different and you might have to try several until you find the right one for you. Some brand is too salty such as Mae Ploy and some is too bland such as Lobo. The other way is you have to season them to match your taste. Some brand are adapted for westerners with less hot and spicy.

Ingredients:

You can buy all the ingredients from Chinese or Thai supermarket in your town.

Thai green curry paste.

Coconut milk (canned, boxed, or power for water dissolved)

Lime leaves

Sweet basil

Fish sauce

Sugar

White eggplants (crisp eggplants) and pea eggplants (These two eggplants are difficult to find in my city so sometimes I use large purple aubergine instead)

Bamboo shoots (optional)

Winter Melon (optional)

Chicken, beef, pork or any meat that you like (normally we use chicken and call it Gaeng Kiaw Waarn Kai) or mushroom for vegetarians

Vegetable oil

Recipes

Stirred fry curry paste with little vegetable oil until you can smell it strong. (need good ventilation as you will be suffocated by the hot smell!)

Add half of coconut milk to make it creamy.

Add melon (if you like and I like it very much), boil about 10 minutes.

Add chicken or meat or mushroom. Cook until done.

Add same amount of water and coconut milk.

Add eggplants or augergine. Leave until boiled again.

Switch off.

Season with sugar and/or fishsauce as you light.

Add kafir lime leaves and basils.

Slice red pepper to decorate.

Served with boiled rice. OH! Go to heaven!!!!!

The first dish: Tom Yum

The first dish to be recommended is Tom Yum.

Tom Yum is literally meaned boiled and spicy mix.

It is very well known and very easy Thai menu.

This is very suit for people who like hot and spicy soup.
Thai herbs make it is aromatic and lime adds sour taste to fresh your life.
Thai people usually have all the dishes at the same time altogether with boiled or steamed rice and Tom Yum is one of the most ordered dish to take as soup from home, street food van through high class restaurant.
The trick of making this dish varying is the kind of meat added to the soup that you can use any fish, king prawns, cuttlefish, fish and shrimp balls, chicken, and so on. Most common is fish (such as sseabass), prawns, chickens and seafood. And it is also made as vegetarian dish by using mushroom instead of meat.
If you want to make a very quick Tom Yum, you can buy ready to use Tom Yum paste or cube from the chinese or Thai supermarket that can be easily found in nearly everywhere in the world. But if you can find fresh ingredients, you will make a perfect taste and perfect look dish in less than 15 minutes!

What you need:
Medium pot
Fishsauce
Bird chillies
Lemongrass
Lime leaves
Limes
Thai Chilli paste
Milk
Coriander
Mushroom

Meats: chicken, fish or king prawns as you want

What to do

Prepare your meat or mushroom as pieces ready to have

Put water in the pot and boil.

Add chopped lemon grass and lime leaves.

Add meat or mushroom, stir very little to avoid bad smell.

Wait until the meat are done.

Turn off the stove. Add fishsauce and lime as you like! The taste should be more sour than salty.

Add chopped Bird chillies. Chillie paste and some milk to make it thick and creamy look.

Decorate with coriander leaves.

[You can easily done without mixing anything by using ready mixed cube or paste added to boiled water, add meat and wait until done. That's so easy but you might need to add lime and/or fish sauce to make it right!]
That's it. Yummy. :)

Prologue

I am a Thai man with Chinese origin. I have never imagined that I can cook before but when I have to go study abroad leaving from the food paradise land. I found that western food is too bland for me. Thai and Chinese restaurants are not difficult to find in my town. But dining out everyday is not possible for the budget I have, so I start learning to cook. Browing from internets and reading from books, I got thousands of recipe to try. But to cook is not that easy from start. These blogs will be the collection of my success menu. They are easy as I can do that. Everyone can do delicious Thai and Chinese dishes. :D