Gang Kai: Thai Red Curry Soup
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 18
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- 1 -2 tablespoon curry paste, to taste (the more you use, the hotter the dish, can be found in Chinese or ethnic food section, look for Tast)
- 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk (you can use regular or lite)
- 1⁄2 1/2 lb beef or 1/2 lb fish
- 2 tablespoons Thai fish sauce (also in ethnic section)
- 1 lime, juice of
- 1⁄2 lemon, juice of
- red pepper flakes
- basil leaves
- 5 -6 kaffir lime leaves, torn (optional)
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Vegetables See Note Below
- bamboo shoot
- straw mushroom
- red bell peppers or green bell pepper
- potato
- Chinese eggplant
- Japanese eggplant (round, light green with darker stripes, range in size from a large bean up to a small orange and are)
- green beans
- zucchini
directions
- Note: Try a combination of vegetables, mix crisp, bitter flavors like green beans or bamboo with softer, warm ones, like potato or zucchini.
- Heat oil in a large saute pan.
- Add curry paste and stir-fry until smooth.
- Add coconut milk and mix thoroughly.
- Add meat and simmer until no longer pink.
- Mix in fish sauce and lime juice and keffir leaves.
- Add slower cooking vegetables, like potatoes, and simmer covered until soft.
- Add basil and faster cooking veggies, like peppers and zucchinis and simmer about two minutes until tender but still firm.
- Serve in bowls over rice.
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I grew up in South Bend, Indiana and love the wholesome, comfort food of the midwest. Nothing beats a whole baked chicken, butter bisquits, fresh, grilled sweet corn and homemade apple pie. But I have always had a craving for exotic foods as well. I love Japanese, Indian and Tex-Mex and I am an accomplished Thai chef, having apprenticed in the home of a college friend for four years. I cut recipes from Real Simple and Food & Wine magazines and love to experiment with combining this recipe with that. I am a fan of ethinicgrocer.com for hard to find items. As much as I love trekking to Chinatown for exotic Asian spices, its much easier to shop online. Glad I found this site.