Red Curry and Penang Curry Paste

[mel81q]

Red Curry & Penang Curry Paste

I received this recipe at a Thai cooking class with an awesome lady named Pum - she has a beautiful restaurant in Phuket - my favourite!!! This is my very first post, so I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do:

Red Curry Paste
Makes a 250ml jar of paste

Ingredients
20 red chillies
2cm of galangal
5cm piece of lemongrass
3 kaffir lime leaves - the centre vein removed
4 cloves garlic
3 Thai shallots
1 tsp of salt
2 Tablespoons chili oil

Turn on to speed 5 and place in garlic, shallots and galangal onto rotating blades for 10seconds.
Turn machine off.
Add the rest of the ingredients except the oil, and turbo blitz about 3 or 4 times.
You will need to continue to scrape down the bowl and repeat the turbo step around 3 times - beware of the chili fumes when you open the lid 
Add the chili oil and stir on speed 4 for 10 seconds until combined
Increase speed to 10 and scrape down again.

Its personal preference as to how liquid you would like it. I just keep scraping down until it looks good. It doesn't matter if you have a more chunky style paste, as it makes no impact on the dish you are cooking.

Penang Curry Paste
To make this into a penang curry paste, you need to add 3 Tablespoons of ground peanuts. To do this, you need to dry roast the raw unsalted peanuts first, and when cool turbo blitz them until it looks like almond meal.

[Nay-nay]

aww that looks so yummy! Another on for the hampers!   Is galangal, ginger?? If not can it be substituted for it?? Also, a Thai shallot, could I sub that for garlic or is it more onion??    I know it sounds like I'm going to totally wreck your recipe but I don't live close to anywhere that would stock these and i know my kids music teacher would love this as and end of year pressy.

[mel81q]

Hi Nay Nay,

Galangal is like a thai ginger - and is probably a good substitute. Not sure where you live, but asian supermarkets have it, and so do good fruit and veg shops. Otherwise you can buy it in coles in a jar minced. Its usually with the thai curry pastes. As for a thai shallot, it looks like a baby spanish onion. I would not use garlic, perhaps try a spanish onion, but half it? Not sure.

Maybe someone can post you some - where do you live?

[Zan]

Thanks sounds lovely.

[Nay-nay]

I live in the middle of no where - whoop whoop- LOL  - Yarraman - I hardly go shopping anywhere else but am visiting Toowoomba tomorrow for a Cyndi o'meara demo so will look for some there. thanks 

[mel81q]

Hi Nay-Nay,

How did you go with your cooking class and subsequent ingredient shopping?

[thermoheaven]

Thanks for the recipe!

[Nay-nay]

Hi Nay-Nay,
How did you go with your cooking class and subsequent ingredient shopping?

Hmmm I didn't get to bed til 1am!! and I'm still getting over it! Can't believe how long it takes to bounce back these days!!    But it was great hearing Cyndi talk. And I got to catch up with 9 of my customers.