Sweet coconut milk and spicy green curry paste are blended with shrimp and basil to create a comforting Thai curry dish. Serve over Jasmine rice to soak up the sauce and you have a complete dinner!
If you love Thai food, you’ll love this quick and easy dish, perfect for a busy weeknight! A lot of Thai dishes are hard to make at home if you don’t have access to a good Asian market, but luckily with the popularity of Thai cuisine, Organization like Thai Select have made a lot of the ingredients available in Overseas supermarket. You can adjust the heat to your liking by adding more or less green curry paste, if you prefer you can use cilantro in place of the basil. Enjoy!!
Ingrediant :
8 peeled Thai shrimps
100 grams round eggplant or brinjal, chopped into four pieces
100 grams coconut cream (the top layer of coconut milk)
500 grams coconut milk
40 grams Kiew Wan curry paste
20 grams palm sugar
2 tbsp fish sauce
2 sliced red spur chilies
4 leaves sweet basil leaves
2 leaves kaffir lime, shredded
Directions:
1. Simmer coconut cream in a pan until the oil separates. Add Kiew Wan curry paste and stir until it dissolves.
2. Add shrimps and try until well cooked. Pour into a pot then add coconut milk. Bring to lull boil over medium heat.
3. Add round eggplant or brinjal and season with fish sauce and palm sugar. When the curry returns to a boil, the round eggplant or brinjal will be cooked.
4. Add red spur chilies, shredded kaffir lime leaves and sweet basil leaves. Serve in a bowl.
Tips :
– If the curry paste is burned while frying, the curry will be darker than usual and have a slightly bitter taste. Likewise, if undercooked, it will appear pale in color and mild in taste and aroma.
– As an alternative, shrimp can be replaced with chicken, pork or beef.
– To keep the round eggplant or brinjal fresh and green, cut and soak in slightly salted water. Only use when the curry is fully boiling.
Nutrition Facts:
Vitamin A, B6, C, E, K, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium
Preparation: 10 mins Cooking: 25 mins Total: 35 mins Spicy Level: 3
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