If it's too sour for your taste, add a touch more sugar. Finish your curry by sprinkling over generous amounts of fresh basil. This Thai green curry paste recipe is ready to be used as soon as you make it. You can also store it in the refrigerator for up to two weeks and use it as needed.
The best part? The paste can also be frozen for future use. It's very fast to make. I used 2 large jalapenos and 1 Thai chile for extra heat. I sauteed the paste, added the remaining coconut milk, green beans, tofu, and chicken. Served it over steamed rice. It was so easy and good. Place all ingredients in a food processor, chopper, or high-speed blender. Add just enough coconut milk to allow the ingredients to blend together, adding a little more if needed.
Process well to form a smooth and fragrant Thai green curry paste. Taste the curry for salt and spice. If it's too salty, add a squeeze of fresh lime or lemon juice. Add more chile peppers for more heat, and blend again if needed. If using a mortar and pestle , chop the ingredients finely. This seems to gives the finished paste a fresh, startlingly hot flavour which sets it apart from the others.
Brissenden also teaches me to allow the curry paste to cook in the oil from the coconut milk, rather than frying it first, as in many other South East Asian cuisines. According to Thai food blogger SheSimmers , curry sauces are supposed to separate — not only does it make them look more appetising to Thai eyes, but it indicates the paste has been correctly cooked.
She also makes a convincing case for making the curry paste in a pestle and mortar, rather than a food processor; "an electric blade will always chop rather than pound, no matter how finely it does so. Even though you may end up with very small particles in your paste, the flavours will remain 'chopped' and separate rather than merged. Pounding spices into each other one by one in a stone mortar and pestle does a more complete job of extracting all their oils and causes the old spice to absorb the tastes of the new, until the flavours are completely melded.
For serious devotees of Thai cookery, there's really only one recipe worth bothering with. David Thompson, the first Thai chef to win a Michelin star for his London restaurant Nahm, is also the author of the only Thai work to merit a place in Observer Food Monthly's top 50 cookbooks , Thai Food. He is, quite simply, a guru for those of us struggling to tell our galangal from our gapi — and he advocates using a pestle and mortar.
The paste does seem much more homogenous, with fewer little bits and I'm grudgingly won over — once I've worked out the hard way that it's advisable to wear eye protection while crushing chillies by hand. By this point, I thought I'd seen it all when it came to Thai ingredients, but no as well as all the usual suspects, he throws in a new one; red turmeric.
This is the fresh root we more often see in powdered form; from experience, I can assure you, it's equally staining — my fingers look like those of a committed smoker for some days after cooking his recipe , but my word is it worth it. Strong, salty, spicy, rich and aromatic, Thompson's curry is as overwhelming and thrilling as a Bangkok street market.
I omit the optional roasted coriander seeds, as I feel they interfere with the fresh flavour of the dish, and to make it absolutely perfect, I add half a teaspoon of palm sugar as a counterpoint to the savoury notes of the shrimp paste, which rounds things out nicely. The best green curry pastes take no prisoners. They should be made by hand, with more chilli, lemongrass and shrimp paste than you think strictly wise, and cooked carefully — then you'll remember why you fell in love with Thai food in the first place.
Its the Vegan fish sauce from Vincent Vegetarian Food brand incase others neededa substitute,i found its just as good if notbetter than regular fish sauce. Easy recipe thanks for posting it! Used 5 tablespoons of the maesri green and still found it a little too spicy so added a tad more coconut milk. Really though, the lime and the basil leaves at the end beautifully balance the flavour.
To use what was in the fridge I used pumpkin popped it in with the coconut milk at the start , snow peas and broccoli. Perfect combo for me. You have the best recipes Nagi! Nagi, your website it amazing! This was the bomb!! The flavour, the aromas and the colour were all a treat for the senses.
I had fresh lemon grass and Kaiffir lime leaves and limes in my garden and sourced some very fresh galangal. I was also unsure about making a paste and using it to cook straight away, but it was perfect.
It was delicious and will be going straight into my recipe tin. Never again will i make green curry with paste from a jar. Thanks Nagi!!!! Very good!! I happen to get the same brand of green curry, after being in Thailand for a while my husband and I have found this to be closest to the same flavor we had over there. Delicious, thank you! This is my go to green curry recipe! Zucchini, peas, capsicum etc. Also good with bamboo shoots or water chestnuts.
Thanks Nagi. Perfect amount of kick and so, so delicious. Amazing recipes! Yes, lots of traditional French recipes these days, I have a French Chef as part of my team who is teaching me the proper ways of French cooking! Never made a curry before but felt like trying out my hand at a Thai green curry. I switched out chicken for paneer and used zucchini and green beans for the vegetables. Many of your recipes are on a regular rotation in my family.
I had a visitor bring me the Maesri curry paste from the US to make this one. Loved every delightful bite. Thank you! Skip to primary navigation Skip to footer navigation Skip to main content Skip to primary sidebar.
The leftovers froze well as noted in the recipe. That being said, prepping the ingredients took much longer than expected — I would plan to have about an hour available to make this the first time just in case you need it. The only addition I made was a handful of basil leaves. Love this recipe! It came out more liquid like than a paste. Has anybody else had this happen? I just made this recipe for green curry paste. It is easy and delicious! I will use it as a base for my green curry with corn and tofu.
I made this last night and it turned out well, it was pretty spicy so I adjusted seasonings for my taste. I would greatly recommend wearing gloves when handling Serrano peppers… my hands were burning for 3 hours last night with no relief!!
I tried every remedy I could find online. Just a heads up when preparing this recipe. I just made this and served as a topping with Thai lettuce wraps. It was delicious. I also used it with coconut milk and a lot of veggies. That one came out really well too. I am saving the rest in the freezer for an easy dinner meal later on. Made this today. Sat in the sun eating it in a wrap — thinking how amazing the curry tasted. The words bright, pop, vibrant came to mind.
This tasted fabulous. Followed recipe exactly. Thank you for sharing your culinary talents. Your recipes are such a treat — you are gifted!!! Also love the pics of your green curry. The green was glorious. Not vegan, but it made for a great plant based Split Pea Soup. Thank you for the curry recipe, :D. Can you Omit the Lemongrass and achieve the same flavor? I have a severe food allergy to Lemongrass. Store curry paste in a jar in the refrigerator up to 10 days or more.
For longer storage, transfer paste to an ice cube tray, freeze, then store in a freezer-safe bag up to 1 month. Loved this recipe, thank-you very much!! The dish was fresh and light, spicy but just enough. Really lovely!! Hi i am a beginner in cooking!
I have made the paste but how do I make the green curry from this paste? How long will this keep for? Does it freeze well? Can I please ask what is the purpose of green bell pepper in this recipe? I have never seen any green curry paste recipe using green bell pepper.
So so amazingly delicious! Such a good thing to have in the freezer to make quick meals with. We used it to make your Coconut Ramen and your Dal recipe. Both amazing. Excited to try your red curry paste recipe now. Me and 3yr old just made this and its as beautiful and vibrant as the picture.
So yummy cant wait to start my lentil curry tonight!!! I just made the green curry paste to include in the 1-pot dal for dinner tonight. Also used a spoonful of the paste with a dolip of hummus on top of roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli for lunch. SO good. I had nearly all the ingredients in my garden — green pepper, hot peppers, coriander, green onions, garlic, limes, and ginger — so I decided to go for it.
Thanks for this! Delicious and vibrant. Easy to pull together when you have the ingredients on hand. Will never get the jar stuff again! It was totally perfect! I followed the recipe using all ground spices, not whole and it turned out just fine. The one modification I made was using 2. The 1-Pot Lentil Dal used 4 tablespoons of this paste. With the leftovers, I have decided to freeze another portion of 4 tablespoons so I can make that Dal again later. Then, I have around 2 tablespoons left to use for some other recipe this week.
Used it with your dal recipe, a stir fry and my mum even used it to make a slow cooked chicken curry. Thanks again! Happy camper. This was excellent. Unfortunately, I only had canned green chillis and the curry lacked the extra kick I was looking for. Next time I will use fresh.
The acidity and brightness of the lemongrass is perfect. So excited to try this! It is almost impossible find a curry paste that is free of traces of nuts — now I can just make my own!
Love your recipes!!! To Colleen — I cannot get actual Lemongrass either, but have found that the chopped up Lemongrass pulp in the refrigerated squeezy tubes the brand in my market are actually imported from Australia — found in the produce section shelves near the boxed herbs, makes a suitable substitute — you just have to play with the measurements. Could you please comment on the lifespan in the frigde vs. Thanks for posting. I have been following your blog and just started cooking my way through your book.
Totally worth the effort! That is a very good problem to have, haha! Hi Kerrie! With most of the spices in this recipe, it specifies which you can use ground rather than whole! Thanks for the reply. I see that the recipe says you can use ground instead of whole, but was double checking the measurement. I love that your version features things that are easy to find.
There are so many delicious meals that are just waiting for me to make it. Thanks for sharing! I am a huge fan an have tried many of your recipes. The green curry is phenomenal. What a great idea to add maple syrup, I would never have thought of that.
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