Thai Beef Curry With Bamboo Shoots

This is anothe recipe from Australian Women's Weekly - Easy Thai Style Cookery. A beautiful dish with lots of flavours and crunch. We like extra curry and the below curry recipe is doubled from the original. Prep time does not include extra time needed to prepare curry

• Ready In: 40 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• Curry

• 5  dried red chilies (or 1 1/2 tbsp red pepper flakes)
• 1  tablespoon  dried galangal, chopped
• 1  tablespoon kaffir lime leaf, dried, chopped
• 1  cup water
• 2  green onions, chopped
• 2  garlic cloves, rushed
• 2  teaspoons lemon rind, grated
• 1  tablespoon lemongrass, chopped
• 1  teaspoon ginger, grated

• Stir-fry

• 1  tablespoon  oil
• 1 1⁄2 lbs  flank steaks (or marinating steak, dish will be a bit tougher)
• 6  ounces bamboo shoots, drained & sliced into smaller pieces if necessary
• 1  fresh red  chili, chopped
• 1  fresh green chile, chopped
• 1  tablespoon fish sauce
• 1  kaffir lime leaf, dried
• 1  teaspoon brown sugar
• 2  tablespoons fresh basil, chopped

Directions

1. Curry Paste:.
2. First prepare curry - soak chillies, galangal and peel in a bowl, cover with water and let stand for 1-2 hours or more.
3. Drain peel mixture and reserve 1/2 cup of the liquid.
4. Blend/process peel mixture, reserved liquid, green onions, garlic, lemon rind, lemon grass and ginger until smooth.
5. Stirfry:.
6. heat oil in wok or large deep pan, add steak and stir fry until browned. Add 1/2 cup (or more!) of curry paste and stir for 2 minutes.
7. add bamboo shoots, chilies, fish sauce, lime leaf and sugar, stirfry until steak is tender.
8. Stir in basil and serve over white sticky rice.