Best Curry Paste Recipes

THAI RED CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Blend chile peppers, onions, cilantro, oil, garlic, coriander, lemon zest, cumin, shrimp paste, paprika, peppercorns, lemon grass, turmeric, and salt together in a blender until a smooth, paste-like consistency is reached.

TOM KERRIDGE'S MADRAS CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Toast all the spices in a frying pan, then leave to cool. Tip into a spice grinder and blend to a fine powder, then add the tamarind paste, vinegar, cinnamon stick, chilli, coriander and roasted peppers. Blend to a coarse paste, then transfer to a container. Can be made a day ahead. Now try using this spice paste to make our venison madras.

CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Put it all in one of those little mini-processors and zoom it a couple of times.
• Add a little bit of water, or oil, to make a paste and zoom it until it all comes together.

PANANG CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Place red chile peppers in a bowl and cover them with warm water. Let sit until rehydrated, about 10 minutes. Drain.
• Place green chile peppers, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, mace, and cardamom in a large, dry skillet over medium heat. Toast until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Transfer red chile peppers and toasted spices to a mortar and pestle. Add shallots, garlic, lemongrass, cilantro root, peppercorns, lime leaves, galangal, shrimp paste, and salt. Pound together into a coarse paste.

THAI RED CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Cut dried chiles into 1/4-inch pieces with kitchen shears and soak in warm water until softened, about 20 minutes. Drain well in a sieve.
• While chiles soak, toast coriander in a dry small heavy skillet over moderate heat, shaking skillet, until fragrant, 3 to 4 minutes, then cool. Thinly slice lower 6 inches of lemongrass stalks and finely chop.
• Finely grind coriander and peppercorns with mortar and pestle (or in mini food processor), about 2 minutes, then toss together with lemongrass, galangal, lime leaves, cilantro, shallot, garlic, fresh chiles, and soaked dried chiles in a bowl. Pound mixture in 3 batches with mortar and pestle until a fairly smooth paste is formed, 8 to 10 minutes per batch, transferring to cleaned bowl. (If using food processor, add about 1 1/2 tablespoons water per batch.) Return all of curry paste to mortar, then add shrimp paste and salt and pound (or pulse) until combined well, about 1 minute.

PANANG CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Place dried chiles in a medium bowl; cover with hot water and soak for 15 minutes. Drain; place chiles and all remaining ingredients in a mini-processor; process until paste forms. DO AHEAD: Can be made 2 months ahead. Store airtight in freezer.

MASSAMAN CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Place dried chile peppers in a small bowl and cover with warm water; soak until rehydrated, about 20 minutes. Drain.
• Heat a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir cumin seeds, coriander seeds, peppercorns, and whole cloves in hot skillet until fragrant, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer spices to a small bowl to cool completely. Grind spices into a fine powder using a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
• Return skillet to medium heat. Cook and stir cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, cardamom in hot skillet until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Transfer spices to a separate small bowl to cool.
• Process garlic, onion, lemon grass, rehydrated chile peppers, ginger, shrimp paste, and salt in a food processor until smooth. Add all spices and process until smooth and well-mixed.

THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Tip all the ingredients into a small food processor and blend until smooth. Add another tablespoon of oil, if needed, to combine. Freeze any leftover paste for another time, or make a double or triple batch to freeze in portions.

THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Blend chiles, lemongrass, shallots, garlic, galangal, makrut lime zest, basil, fingerroot (if using), shrimp paste, and ½ cup water in a blender on high speed, scraping down sides and adding more water if needed, until paste is the consistency of a thick salsa.
• DO AHEAD: Curry paste can be made 5 days ahead. Transfer to an airtight container; cover and chill, or freeze up to 2 months.

PUMPKIN SOUP WITH THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE CROUTONS

Steps:

• Simmer stock, puree and heavy cream until desired consistency. Bake diced bread on a sheet pan in the oven at 450 degrees until browned. Meanwhile, mix olive oil and green curry in a bowl. Remove bread from oven and place in the bowl, covering it with curry. Place bread crumbs back into oven until crisp.
• Remove skin from pumpkin and chop the meat into small pieces. Heat butter in a saute pan and add the pumpkin. Add the water and simmer covered for about 20 minutes or until the pumpkin is tender. Remove the pumpkin meat and mash it by hand or in a food processor.

REAL THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE (NAM PRIK GEN KAYO WAN)

Steps:

• Combine green chiles, shallots, cilantro roots, garlic, Thai basil, lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime peel, shrimp paste, cumin seeds, turmeric, coriander seeds, salt, and white pepper in a mortar and pestle; pound into a smooth paste.

ROAST CHICKEN WITH CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine curry paste and olive oil in a small bowl. Rinse chicken and dry with paper towels. Gently separate skin from meat over the chicken's breast and legs. Rub the cavity of the chicken with curry paste mixture and rub more curry mixture under the skin. Place onion quarters in the chicken cavity. Rub remaining paste all over chicken. Place chicken on a rack set inside a roasting pan.
• Roast in the preheated oven until skin is browned, the juices run clear, and an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into a chicken thigh, not touching bone, reads at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C), about 2 hours.

THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE WITH PORK AND CHINESE OKRA

Steps:

• PREPARATION-.
• De-bone the pork loin and cut up into bite size pieces, set aside.
• Cut the long Chinese Okra vegetable in half and then cut away the tough outer skin, the cut into bite size pieces, set aside, and/or clean, cut up and use other vegetables.
• Chop up the basil leaves and leave several whole pieces(4 plus) for garnish, set aside.
• Use a small not very hot pepper, remove the seeds, cut up, set aside.
• Chop the anchovies into small pieces, set aside.
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• COOKING INSTRUCTIONS-.
• Heat oil in a pan or wok, add the curry paste, then add the coriander and cumin powder and stir fry for a minute or two.
• Add ½ to ¾ cup of the coconut milk, lower heat and simmer for several minutes.
• Add the pork, until thoroughly cooked.
• Add the basil leaves, hot pepper, anchovies, sugar, peanut butter and simmer a few minutes more.
• Place hot soup into individual bowls and garnish with a whole basil leaf or two.
• Serve with rice and enjoy!
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• NOTES-.
• Using 1 tablespoon Thai Curry Paste is hot enough, more will make it very hot and also if you use a hot pepper as well. You can also marinate the pork with lime juice and chopped up garlic for several hours or overnight in the refrigerator... this will tenderize the pork.

PANANG CURRY PASTE WITH BEEF & VEGGIES, SLOW COOKER

Steps:

• PREPARATION-.
• Remove the seeds from the hot chili pepper and cut into small pieces, set aside.
• Scrap off the skin from the carrot, cut into rounds, set aside.
• Chop up the basil leaves, set aside.
• Remove the seeds from the red/green/yellow pepper and cut into pieces, set aside.
• Using other vegetables of your choice, clean as required, cut into bite size pieces, set aside.
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• COOKING INSTRUCTIONS-.
• Heat oil in a pan or wok, add the curry paste, then add the coriander and cumin powder and stir fry for a minute or two.
• Add the meat and braise on all sides.
• Then add the coconut milk, lower heat and simmer for a few minutes.
• Next add the meat and coconut milk to a Slow Cooker.
• Add the hot pepper, anchovies, sugar, peanut butter and stir/mix into the meat/coconut milk and place the cover on.
• Now set the Slow Cooker to cook for 3 hours on the high temperature setting.
• Half way through the cooking time, add the carrots.
• At about 2 hours add the carrot and a quick stir.
• At about 2 ½ hours add the balance of the vegetables, a quick stir and put the cover back on.
• When finished stir in Bijol seasoning for color, if desired.
• Serve with rice in individual bowls or plates, topped with a few basil leaves and enjoy!
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• NOTES-.
• This is a milder curry paste then the other Thai curries, using 1 tablespoon should be enough and if you add some hot peppers as well. At around 2 ½ hours the meat is tender, but at 3 hours more so... depending on the cut of meat used. Finally temperatures for different Slow Cookers will vary, so cook accordingly for a nice meal.

YELLOW CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Soak the red chillies in 5 tablespoons hot water for 1-2 hours. (You could also put them in a microwave oven for 2-3 minutes and then let them sit for 20-30 minutes.)
• Put the chillies, together with their soaking liquid, into a blender along with all the remaining ingredients in the order listed.
• Blend, pushing down with a rubber spatula as many times as necessary, until you have a smooth paste.
• What you do not use immediately should be refrigerated or frozen.

HOMEMADE MILD CURRY POWDER AND PASTE.

Steps:

• First take the coriander,cumin,fenugreek,black pepper,mustard seeds and dry fry gently in a frying pan until the mustard seeds start to pop.
• Let spices cool.
• Grind the unground spices to a fine powder and mix with remaining spices.
• This should result in a fine mild curry powder.
• For a hotter variety add one tsp of ground chile.
• For curry paste.
• Roast an onion for one hour at 200°C.
• Let onion cool.
• In a blender chop onion finely.
• Add remaining ingredients to blender and mix well.

RED CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Soak the chillies in 5 tablespoons hot water for 1-2 hours. (You could also put them in a microwave oven for 2-3 minutes and then let them sit for 20-30 minutes).
• Put the chillies together with their soaking liquid, into a blender, along with all the remaining ingredients in the order listed.
• Blend, pushing down with a rubber spatula as many times as necessary, until you have a smooth paste.
• What you do not use immediately should be refrigerated or frozen.

GREEN CURRY PASTE FOR THAI TOFU AND VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth.

THAI GREEN CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Using a blender or processor, blend all the ingredients to a smooth paste.
• Transfer the paste into a bowl, cover and chill until required.

ZUCCHINI, BELL PEPPER, AND CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over high heat. Saute zucchini and bell pepper until tender, 5 to 6 minutes. Stir in curry paste and salt. Serve warm, cold, or at room temperature.