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How to make pumpkin soup from scratch in 30 minutes

August 27, 2018 By The Skinny Cook Leave a Comment

Guaranteed! 5 tips how to make sure that you will be enjoying a delicious pumpkin soup in 30 minutes from now. Click here to be sure your will enjoy a tasty bowl of freshly made soup.

This recipe works also perfectly for people using a soup maker. However read our tips to make sure anybody with a cooking pot can make soup in 30 minutes or less.

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Red curry paste recipe

March 3, 2015 By JC Leave a Comment

Prepare this red curry paste recipe so you will enjoy delicious tom yum soup, curry chicken or a green curry paste when simply using green in stead of red peppers.

For long-term storage in your freezer, fry the curry paste in 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil until boiling. Let it cool down, put into small batches in a container and freeze. For short-term storage in the fridge, put into a container and spread a thin film of vegetable oil on top.

For making a green curry paste, follow the recipe below but substitute the 9 dried long red peppers with 2 tablespoons of green small hot peppers. If you want to use more ingredients, then use this Thai green curry paste recipe.

The paste can be used in our tom yum soup recipe or in our Thai red chicken curry recipe.

What is Kaffir lime?

Kaffir lime and the commonly available kaffir lime leavesKaffir 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 (daun stands for the leaves, limau stands for the fruit)
  • 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

Thai red curry paste recipe: ingredients

  • 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 but it does improve the color.)

How to make a green or red Thai curry paste

  1. Red curry paste recipePound all the ingredients 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 most likely only be able to blend a bigger quantity.
  3. When you have made a large quantity, store the curry paste as mentioned above.

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