Green curry is a well known green creamy soup in Thailand, neighbouring countries and around the world. It is typically served with rice or round rice noodles known as "khanom chin". The most popular dish is called "Kaeng Khiao Wan" = Sweet Green Curry, cooking with coconut milk and palm sugar.
Green curry paste is made of all fresh herbal ingredients such as coriander seed, cumin, curcuma, galangal-white ginger family (Kah), garlic, green Chili, kaffir lime peel, lemongrass, turmeric, pepper, salt, shrimp paste. Some more ingredients you need to add:
It is traditionally cooked either with meat or fishes/fishballs, thai eggplants or auberginess (either small like green peas or round green aubergines which have bitter taste).
However, you can use purple/dark Aubergines as well:
Thai green curry can be spicy and sweet at the same time. If you do not like sweet taste in your curry, no palm sugar is needed. However, this sweet green curry, you can add palm sugar or coconut sugar, but it cannot be replaced with white sugar because it will be lack of special taste for this kind of curry. (Palm sugar does not have the same taste as white sugar)
Another spice that you should add is either Thai basil or kaffir lime leaves (fresh or dried). The dried kaffir lime leaves are as good as other dried spices.
Of course, the fresh leaves look nicer, but when you cook it, it turns greenish brown like dried lime leaves. What if you could not find the fresh leaves? Dried kaffir lime leaves are still better than nothing!!!
For your information : Green curry paste usually already contains fresh lime leaves, so you just soak dried lime leaves in water or use as decoration on your curry.
In case you do not like coconut milk, you can cook only this green curry paste with any meat or vegetable you like. However, it tastes more spicy than the one with coconut milk. It may look like this :
For vegetarians, here is our creamy green curry with tofu cubes. This version has mild taste.
If you add palm sugar and a lot of coconut milk in the curry, it will not have spicy taste at all.
When you did not add palm sugar and add the right amount of coconut milk, you will spicy green curry and certainly get the image below:
Please watch our vdo how to cook our green curry. In this vdo : Spicy Green Curry (no palm sugar); if you like sweet taste, you can add palm sugar at the end and let it cook. if you cannot find spices, you can order them from us. (Registration is required for ordering) Thank you!
