Scratch Cooking: Thai Green Curry Paste

Stirring up a Thai curry is not difficult. The star ingredient you’ll discover is making your own curry paste from scratch. This homemade version of a Thai green curry paste trumps the store-bought bottle with its fragrant hit of fresh herbs and essential spices, adding a nuanced medley of flavours to your curry or any other recipe calling for creative uses of a Thai paste!


Thai Green Curry Paste

Ayushi Gupta-Mehra
An easy recipe for making your own Thai green curry paste from scratch, suffused with a fragrant hit of fresh herbs and essential spices.
Course Main Course
Cuisine Asian, Thai

Ingredients
  

  • 1 tbsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tbsp black peppercorns
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • 2-3 cloves of garlic, smashed
  • 1 onion, finely sliced
  • 4 – 5 green chillies, finely sliced
  • 2 stalks of Lemongrass, cut into 1 inch pieces
  • 1 thumb-sized piece of Galangal, cut into small pieces
  • 4-5 kaffir lime leaves (cut into halves)
  • coriander leaves (about half a cup)
  • juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 tsp light soy sauce

Instructions
 

  • Add the toasted spices to a mixer with the remaining ingredients. Be sure to throw in the whole coriander leaves with their stalks for added depth of flavour. Blitz in the mixer until combined into a rough paste with texture. Chill overnight before using.

Notes

Note that this recipe doesn’t call for any salt, as salt acts to dehydrate pastes and dressings. 
Keyword homemade green curry paste
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Pro tips for Making A Thai green curry

Now that you have you own homemade Thai green curry paste, here are a few tips and hacks to help you simmer the most authentic rendition of a Thai curry this side of BKK.

  • In terms of ingredients, be sure to throw in a few whole pieces of birds eye chillies to infuse a spicy slant. Adding baby brinjals cuts this spiciness to palatable levels, while including pea brinjals releases aromatic flavours.
  • Vegetable stock: coconut milk: Use a 1:2 ratio, adding a ladle of vegetable stock for every 2 ladles of coconut milk. You can easily create your veggie stock at home using leftover peels; and make your own coconut milk by blitzing fresh coconut flesh, coconut water and a cup of water in a powerful mixer/ blender.
  • Add palm sugar or jaggery to adjust the level of sweetness.
  • Add a splash of light soy sauce (not dark), to lend a salty hint of umami, coming as close to fish sauce as possible for vegetarians.
Thai Green Curry

Of course once you’ve made your own green curry paste, there’s a whole lot more you can do with it, apart from just making Thai curries! Why not add it to soups and stir-fries, grilled foods or noodles too? 


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