Panang Curry Paste Recipes

Steps:

• In a heavy bottomed pot, heat the 3 tablespoons of the thick coconut cream to high for about 1 minute. When the cream starts to sizzle, stir in the curry paste into the cream like building a roux. Add the onion and half of the makrut lime leaf chiffonade. Stir-fry the paste until the paste starts to thicken, dry out, and become fragrant, about 1 minute. If the curry starts to sputter, add a small amount of coconut milk to keep the paste moving. Cook the paste until it has the consistency of peanut butter.
• Stir in the remaining coconut milk into the curry paste. Increase the heat to high until you reach a full rolling boil. Allow the curry to boil until it reduces by about 25% or coats the back of a wooden spoon, 10 to 15 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to a simmer. Add the chicken, tamarind paste, fish sauce and sugar. When the chicken is about halfway cooked, about 5 minutes, add the bell pepper and zucchini. Let simmer until the chicken is cooked through, about 5 minutes. Add the bamboo shoots and Thai basil leaves. Taste and adjust seasoning. Serve immediately over jasmine rice and garnish with a few ribbons of the remaining makrut lime leaf.

Steps:

• Fry the curry paste in the oil in a large skillet or wok over medium heat until fragrant. Stir the coconut milk into the curry paste and bring to a boil. Add the chicken; cook and stir until the chicken is nearly cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes. Stir the palm sugar, fish sauce, and lime leaves into the mixture; simmer together for 5 minutes. Taste and adjust the saltiness by adding more fish sauce if necessary. Garnish with sliced red chile peppers and Thai basil leaves to serve.

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.

Steps:

• Heat oil in a skillet over medium heat. Add chicken breast; cook just until no longer pink in the center; about 3 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate.
• Whisk coconut milk and curry paste together in skillet until combined. Add potato; simmer until potatoes begin to soften, about 10 minutes. Stir cooked chicken, peas and carrots, fish sauce, sugar, and lime leaves into the curry mixture; simmer until potatoes are soft, about 10 minutes more.

Steps:

• Brown beef, remove from heat as soon as it's no longer pink outside.
• Drain the beef.
• Heat curry paste and add ginger, chili, garlic.
• Add 2/3 coconut milk and stir.
• Add all remaining spices and mix in the rest of the coconut milk.
• Add suger and stir well.
• Add beef and simmer for 2 minutes.
• Use the remaining coconut milk in the can to cook with rice or make dessert.

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.

Steps:

• Put everything into a food processor and blend until smooth. There will be green flecks from the cilantro. Taste, it should be tomato with a sharp after-bite of "heat". If it is too acid from the tomato paste, add more salt and pepper. Maybe it's not hot enough, add more sambal. If it's not herby enough, then add more cilantro and blend again. The ground caraway gives that low, back of the tongue smoothness to the curry. If you don't taste that, then add more caraway.
• So, you really should be able to taste all the ingredients both separately and as a whole, that is, you will be able to identify the flavors as being what they are within the context of the whole of the panang paste. Remember, this is the base for the dish, so it is going to be intense.

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.
• Place on sheet in tablespoon lumps to freeze. Then place in airtight bag. Can be made 2 months ahead.

Steps:

• Put some water on to boil for your spaghetti/rice/noodles, and cook as per instructions. Put half the coconut milk into a wok and fry for 3-5 mins, stirring continuously, until the coconut oil begins to separate out.
• Then add the curry paste and fry for 1-2 mins, until you get the aroma of the paste.
• Add the pork and cook until the outside is cooked.
• Then add the rest of the thick coconut milk and bring to the boil.
• Simmer and add the palm sugar along the side of the wok until it melts.
• Then add the soy sauce, fish sauce and lime leaf pieces.
• Stir to combine (if using) add half the basil leaves.
• Turn off the heat and serve garnished with the shredded lime leaves, red chillies, coconut milk and (if using) the remaining basil leaves.

Steps:

• Brown the ground turkey and drain.
• Saute the panang curry paste until it starts to look a bit oily. Be careful not to burn the paste.
• Add one can of the coconut milk to the paste and stir until well incorporated.
• Add fish sauce, potatoes, bamboo shoots, and red peppers. Simmer gently until the potatoes are almost cooked through. Watch carefully so that it doesn't scorch.
• Add in the ground turkey and stir to cover the ground turkey in the sauce.
• Add the kaffir lime leaves, cilantro and thai basil to taste. (We use large handfuls of the cilantro and the thai basil.).
• Serve hot over rice, garnishing with additional basil or cilantro as desired.

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.