Thursday, July 19, 2007

Thai Green Chicken Curry the Short-cut Way



I love Thai green curry because I find it to be more versatile. I can use it to make seafood curry, meat curry or simply a vegetarian curry and all will turn out delicious. I also used it to fry rice or stir-fry my chicken.

I called it short-cut because I used the ready made paste by Mae Ploy. You can find it in any Asian supermarket these days, this brand is quite popular. Once opened, you can keep the paste in the freezer. What's great about this is you don't even have to defrost it, just take it out and use it straight from the freezer, very convenient.


All you need to make a good Thai green curry is a little Thai palm sugar (1tsp.), fish sauce and coconut milk (or milk) and above 2-3 Tbsp. of green curry paste. For the above curry, I used skinless and boneless chicken thighs, sliced yellow onion, sliced kinda thick carrots and frozen green beans. This curry is spicy as it is but if you really can take the heat, you can add Thai bird eye chili as well.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

At first I saw long beans, carrots and the "lemak" look, I thought sayur lodeh, hahaha! I making sayur lodeh soon...with ketupat to turn into lontong...yum yum!
Think I have not seen Mae Ploy brand around...or maybe I have not looked close enough. Thanks for the recommendation :D

Home Cooking said...

wow! mouth watering dish. i luv thai green curry as well >_<

daphne said...

hmmm.. Mae Ploy brand is readily available in australia but I never quite have the guts to try one yet. Thanks for posting-will try soon.

Little Corner of Mine said...

Hi Tigerfish,
Can't wait to read your post on sayur lodeh and lontong!

Thanks Isha! :)

You're welcome Daphne! You won't regret it. :)

East Meets West Kitchen said...

Hey C!
It's a good thing we are not neighbors because I made green curry too! hahaha!

Little Corner of Mine said...

V,
Nevermind, I want a piece of your refreshing lemon cheesecake! :D

Anonymous said...

Hahah...sayur lodeh and lontong already in archives...made them before, so this time I'm just repeating...won't take photos this time round. ;p