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- Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes
- From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
- Subject: COLLECTION: Thai dishes and soups
- Message-ID: <ZV7TXCG@taronga.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 93 14:21:29 CDT
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- Red or Green Thai Curry -- Carol Miller-Tutzauer (riacmt@ubvms)
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- You can add other things (holy basil, fish sauce,
- chopped hot Thai chiles, lemon grass, galanga, shrimp paste, etc.).
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- 2 T red or green curry paste (use more for hotter curry; Mae Ploy brand
- is excellent
- 3 T vegetable oil
- 3/4 lb boneless chicken meat, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
- 2 cans (unsweetened) coconut milk (approx. 3 c in all)
- 1 c water or chicken broth
- 1/2 c baby corns
- 1/2 c straw mushrooms (or substitute other mushroom of your choice)
- 1/2 c sliced bamboo shoots
- 5 kaffir lime leaves (dried are fine; these are available in packages
- on the bottom -- usually dusty -- shelf of the Asian market; they
- look like dried, curled-up leaves)
- 1/2 t salt (more or less to taste)
- if green curry, 10 fresh basil leaves
- if red curry, 1/2 red bell pepper, cut into matchstick-size strips
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- Fry curry paste in oil in saucepan until fragrant. Add chicken (if
- using) and saute for about 1 minute over medium high heat. Add
- remaining ingredients except basil leaves or red bell pepper. Bring
- just barely to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 20-30 minutes. Just
- before serving, stir in basil leaves or red bell pepper. Serve with
- cooked Thai Jasmine rice.
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- Evil Jungle Prince with Chicken (or with Mixed Vegetables)
- Keo's Thai Cuisine by Keo Sananikone, Ten Speed Press, 1986,
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- 1/2 lb boneless chicken breast (or 1/2 lb mixed vegetables, see note below)
- 2 to 6 small red chile peppers
- 1/2 stalk fresh lemon grass
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 2 T oil
- 1/2 c coconut milk
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 to 4 T fish sauce, based on personal taste (omit for veggie version)
- 10 to 15 basil leaves
- 1 c chopped cabbage
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- Thinly cut chicken into 2-inch strips. (If doing veggie version, cut
- vegetables into thin strips.) Grind together red chili peppers, lemon grass,
- and kaffir lime leaves in a food processor or pound in a mortar. Heat oil to
- medium-high and saute pepper mixture for 3 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and
- cook for 2 minutes. Add chicken (or vegetables) and cook for 5 minutes or
- until cooked (same time for veggies). Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in
- fish sauce (if using), salt, and basil. Serve on a bed of chopped cabbage.
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- Makes 3 to 4 servings.
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- Note: For mixed vegetables, choose from among bell peppers, string beans,
- water chestnuts, tomatoes (small cherry tomatoes are best), bamboo shoots,
- miniature corn, asparagus, cucumbers, zucchini, Japanese eggplant, and
- mushrooms. I particularly like string beans or asparagus, a few cherry
- tomatoes, shredded (rather than sliced) bamboo shoots, miniature corn, and
- some straw mushrooms or slender (Japanese) eggplant.
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- Yellow Curry Chicken
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- 1 lb bnls, skinless chicken breast, cut in bite-size pieces
- 2-3 c fresh veggies: mushrooms, asparagus, onions, zuccini, ...
- 2 potatoes, peeled and cut in pieces, pre-cooked
- 1-2 carrots, cut in bite-size pieces, pre-cooked
- 1/2 c or so frozen peas
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- 1-2 T veg. oil
- 1 T red curry paste
- 1 can (14 oz) coconut milk
- 3-4 T fish sauce
- dash salt
- 1-2 T sugar
- 1 T yellow curry powder
- 1/2 c water or chicken stock
- 1/2 bay leaf
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- 1A. Pre-cook potatoes and carrots. Don't cook them too done, since
- they will simmer with the main dish later.
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- 1. Cut boneless, skinless chicken breast into bite-size pieces.
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- 2. Wash and cut fresh vegetables into bite-size pieces.
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- 3. In a heavy saucepan on medium heat, heat the veg. oil, red curry paste,
- and about one third of the coconut milk. Heat 5-10 minutes, stirring,
- until it forms a thin gravy.
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- 4. Turn the heat to high, add the chicken, and cook until the chicken is
- half cooked, maybe five minutes.
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- 5. Add the fish sauce, sugar, salt, and rest of the coconut milk, and
- mix well.
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- 6. Stir in the curry powder, potatoes, carrots, and water/stock. If
- desired, add 1/s bay leaf. Let simmer just a minute or two.
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- 7. Add the fresh vegetables and the frozen peas, and let simmer for
- 3 to 5 minutes, until fresh veggies are just done.
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- 8. Serve (with jasmine rice...).
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