THAI RED CURRY PASTE RECIPE

Thai red curry paste recipe

Makes 1 cup in 25 minutes (can be used 3 to 6 times in meals for 4 people)
Updated by The Skinny Cook  :
22 November 2006

 Thai red curry paste / Asian cooking (Thailand) / Stove / No marination

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Thai red curry paste recipe with fresh ingredients!

This paste can be used in our  Tom Yum Soup Recipe : a delicious hot and spicy Thai Shrimp soup recipe. It can also be used in the other Thai food recipes like Thai red chicken curry

Store the fresh Thai Red Curry Paste recipe

For long-term storage in a freezer, fry the Thai red curry paste in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil until boiling. Cool. Put into container and freeze.
 
For short-term storage in the fridge, put into a container and spread a thin film of vegetable oil on top.

Thai green curry paste using the Thai red curry paste recipe

Thai green curry paste uses the same ingredients as mentioned in this Thai red curry paste recipe BUT : substitute the 9 dried long red peppers with 2 tablespoons of green small hot peppers.

What is Kaffir lime?

Kaffir Lime : Latin name : Citrus hystrix DC.

Synonyms in many languages :

Burmese cooking Shauk-nu, Shauk-waing
Chinese cooking Suan gan yet
Danish cooking Kaffir lime
Dutch cooking Kaffir limoen, Djeroek poeroet
English cooking Indonesian lime leaves, Wild lime
French cooking Limettier hérissé, Combava
German cooking Kaffernlimette, Indische Zitronenblätter, Indonesische Zitronenblätter, Kaffirzitrone, Kaffirlimette
Hungarian cooking Kaffir citrom és levél, Kaffercitrom
Indonesian cooking Daun jeruk purut
Hmong cooking Mav naus
Khmer cooking Kraunch soeuth
Laotian cooking Kok mak khi hout
Malay cooking Daun limau purut (leaf), Limau purut (fruit)
Thai cooking Bai makrut
Vietnamese cooking Chanh sac, Truc

INGREDIENTS : Thai red curry paste recipe

1 teaspoon Kaffir lime peel
1 teaspoon Galangal root, peeled and sliced thin
2 tablespoons Lemon grass sliced thin
4-5 large cloves Garlic, peeled
10 very small Shallots, peeled
1 tablespoon Coriander root, chopped
9 dried long red peppers (if you want it less spicy hot : Part of this amount may be substituted by red paprika powder - not as hot and improves the colour.) 

PREPARATION : Thai red curry paste recipe

1. Pound all the in a mortar. Start with the more dry ingredients and end with shallots and garlic.
2. This may also be done in a blender but the amount should be doubled or tripled as this is a small recipe and the blender blades will only be able to blend a bigger quantity.