Homemade green curry paste
Persons
5
Serving Size
about 300g curry paste
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
10 minutes
Total Time
30 minutes
Ingredients
- 10g cumin seed
- 100ml vegetable oil
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 4 garlic cloves - peeled
- 1 tsp black peppercorn
- 2 shallot - roughly chopped
- 2 stalks lemongrass - roughly chopped
- 1 batch coriander (about 40 to 50g) - roughly chopped
- 1/2 to 2 green chillies (depned on how you like spicy) - roughly chopped
- 1/2 tbsp ginger powder
- 5 to 6 kaffir lime leaves - spine removed -roughly chopped (or 5 to 10g lemon skin)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tsp garam masara powder
- 10g shrimp paste (kapi)
- 1/2 tsp fine salt
- 1 tsp coconut sugar or brown sugar
Instructions
- 1. In a small frying-pan, fry cumin seed until fragrant. Set aside.
- 2. Place all the ingredients and the fried cumin seed from #1 in the food processor. Chop until the mixture becomes a homogeneous paste. (or put all ingredients in a cooking bowl, and blend with a hand blender until smooth.)
For a green curry recipe follow this link
- Note if you don't intend to use it all :
- Store the green curry paste in a jar in the refrigerator for a few days. Or transfer the paste in a zip lock plastic bag, then freeze it for storage.
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