The good news is that making your own Thai Green Curry Paste at home is not a tedious job, as long as you have all the ingredients ready. This Thai curry paste can be ready in less than 10 minutes. Get the ingredients, put in a food processor and whizz up till you get a smooth paste. That's it. And let me tell you it is so much better than shop-bought Thai Curry paste, packed with amazing fresh fragrant flavours and ingredients. But, if you have some time on your hand and patience or just need some work out try pounding this paste by hand in mortar and pestle, therapeutic right?
Thai pastes are one of the essential elements of Thai Cuisine, prepare Thai soup or Thai Curry, Thai stir fry or marinades dishes, Thai pastes plays an important role in these dishes.
We love Thai food, so obviously I do make my own Thai pastes. Luckily, all the authentic and necessary ingredients are available very easily where I live as there is an oriental grocery store just a stone's throw away from my house. I love to include fresh and original ingredients in my Thai curry pastes. The recipe I have prepared is fast, finger-licking and versatile, you can add in pretty much anything.
10/12 days ago, I was clearing out my fridge and realised that we are out of homemade Thai paste! It's almost time for my daughter to go back to uni, so it's the right time for me to prepare this paste, so I can freeze some for her too and whenever she wants to use it she can use it. This paste can be frozen and stays up to one year.
Recently I prepared coconut and pineapple Thai fried rice, which is now have become our all time favourite and it seems to be doing pretty well with my readers too. I am soon going to post a similarly delicious recipe just like this one prepared with Thai paste, but until then let's see how the Thai Green paste can be made.
More Thai Recipes:- Thai Yellow-Orange Curry Paste | Thai Style sweet potato and noodle soup
Notes:-
As we love spicy food, my this recipe is a spicy kick but if you prefer milder flavours reduce the number of green chillies.
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As we love spicy food, my this recipe is a spicy kick but if you prefer milder flavours reduce the number of green chillies.
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Thai Green Curry Paste
A really easy and quick Thai Green curry paste which is so flavourful and aromatic.
Ingredients
- 15-18 Thai Green Chilies
- 6 stalks Lemon grass sliced
- 3-4 tbsp Galangal or Ginger sliced
- 4-5 shallots or 1 white onion sliced
- 6-8 Tbsp. Fresh coriander chopped with roots
- 1 Kaffir lime leave chopped
- 1 Tbsp. White pepper powder
- 2 Tbsp. Whole coriander and cumin seeds lightly roasted
- per taste Sea salt
- 4-6 Garlic cloves
- 1 Tbsp. Kaffir lime zest
- 5-6 Tbsp. Coconut milk
Instructions
Add everything in a blender and blend till you get a smooth green paste.This paste can stay fresh in a refrigerator up to one week and in the freezer up to one year.
Details
Prep time: Cook time: Total time: Yield: 1 jar
I absolutely love making as much stuff as possible from scratch, so this is right up my street!
ReplyDeleteThat sounds so flavorful! This would be awesome on roasted veggies!
ReplyDeleteOh I am digging the sound of that coconut and pineapple fried rice too--sounds so tasty!
ReplyDeleteI love thai green curry and I always use the ready made paste. I never can find galangal or kafir lime leaves. I can almost smell the freshness in this paste. YUM!
ReplyDeleteA really useful recipe to have on hand and homemade always tastes better than shop bought!
ReplyDeleteGreen curry is my favourite of all. Love all the aromatic spices here. Homemade pastes are always the best.
ReplyDeleteThis looks fabulous! I really love curry sauce but have never made one from scratch... yet! I like that this can be frozen too. What's your favorite way to use it?
ReplyDeleteThis looks delicious! I love the flavor of green chilis!
ReplyDeleteThat looks so bright and flavorful. I can see why you'd be upset to find out you're out!
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful is that!! I love this recipe and it sounds so doable. I am sure this is as delicious as it looks! :)
ReplyDeleteI have so many ideas going through my head on how to use this! Looks so good!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, now all I can think about is green curry. I have made my own paste before ( my husband took cooking classes in Thailand and learned how) but I honestly had never thought of freezing it. That would make my green curry cravings so much easier to accommodate :)
ReplyDeleteI LOVE everything Thai food! This looks like a simple recipe, will definitely have to try it
ReplyDeletegreat idea to prepare the green curry and freeze it
ReplyDeleteGosh, this looks so good. Must make this for my Thai loving husband. Pinning for later :)
ReplyDeleteWow! This is a recipe that I don't have. I really needed it and thank so much!
ReplyDeleteI love homemade thai curry pasts this recipe sounds awesome!
ReplyDeletewow looks so good! I know homemade paste is wonderful in recipes. Love Thai recipes.
ReplyDeleteThis looks so vibrant and delicious, I think I'd love it all by itself!
ReplyDeleteThat looks really tasty. That has to tasty really great on chicken or pork.
ReplyDeleteI love your photography!!! Also, I'm a huge fan of curry. Love your site.
ReplyDeleteYou are so right homemade curry paste is so much better than shop bought. I like to make it in a pestle and mortar so its a bit less uniform but when time is short then the food processor is definitely the way to go.
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I've been looking for a good thai green curry paste for ages and this looks incredible! Your photography is simply stunning too, I'm so envious!
ReplyDeleteI love Thai cuisine.. I find the green curry paste more flavourful than the red one.
ReplyDeleteThis thai curry paste sounds wonderful and I love the fact that it can be bulk made and frozen.
ReplyDeleteI don't look a lot of Thai food as I have not been able to find vegetarian recipes for their red and Green sauces. So glad to see your recipe and you make it sound so easy to make the green sauce.
ReplyDeleteI love thai food. I really fancy giving this a try. I've only ever used Thai green curry paste that I've bought. I've never heard of galangal before but I'll look it up before just going with ginger. I like trying out new ingredients.
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