Thai Green Curry

After these busy months for my university works, I've finally taken out a weekend to try out this new dish, Thai green curry. Last few weeks, I went to a Thai restaurant and had their green curry. It was delicious. That's why I wanted to try it out as well. As usual, I searched for green curry recipe and I've found one from about.com.

Basically, Green curry is one of the variety of curry in Thai cuisine. The name "green" curry derives from the colour of the dish. Other Thai curry dishes are identified solely by their colours, such as yellow and red curry. The main ingredients for the sauce normally consist of coconut milk, fish sauce, cilantro, etc. Thai green curry can be made with meat, duck, chicken, fish or vegetables and is usually eaten as an accompaniment to rice.

Ingredients

Paste:

• 3 big green chili , with the seeds removed
  
• 2 small green chili, with the seeds removed (you could add more if you prefer more spicy curry)
  
• 1 green bell pepper
• 2 tbsp minced ginger
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1/3 cup minced lemongrass
• 1 tsp grated lime zest
• 1/4 onion, diced
• 1/2 bunch cilantro, chopped
• 2 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1/4 cup fish sauce

Other ingredients:

1-1/2 cup Diced Zucchini
1 cup Sugar Peas
8-10 Round Eggplants
1 Green Bell Pepper
1/2 bunch Thai Leech Lime Leaves
1 can Coconut Milk (425ml)
2 Chicken Thighs, chopped into small pieces (you could use boneless chicken thigh as well)
1/2 cup Chicken Stock

Method:

1. Throw all the paste ingredients into a blender and puree it very fine and set aside.
2. In a heavy pot, cook about 2/3 of the green curry paste on med-high heat for about 5 minutes.
3. Add 1/2 can of coconut milk, and when it comes to boil, add the chicken and chicken stock, and boil for 5 minutes.
4. Add 1tsp of soy sauce, the other half of the coconut milk, and let it simmers for another couple of minutes.
5. Add the lime juice and the green peppers, zucchini and round eggplants. Cook for 3 minutes.
6. Add the green curry paste to taste. Add more if you want it hot and spicy.
   
7. To finish, add the leech lime leaves and sugar peas. The peas only take about 40 seconds to cook.
   
8. Garnish with some leech lime leaves or cilantro (optional)

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