We starting a monthly Curry Night my place first need help hoping to do a Seafood Curry we being voted on.
Food ,Presentation, music, theme, can’t do Indian as other friend doing this next month.

islandbreeze - 2019-02-08 10:31:00

This is my favourite Thai fish curry. I mainly make it with salmon.

Thai Dry Fish Curry (Neil Perry)
serves 2

Paste:

½ tsp white peppercorns
½ tsp fennel seeds
½ tsp cumin seeds
3 long dried chillies, deseeded and soak in warm water 30 min
1 tsp salt
3 red shallots, chopped
2 cloves garlic
1 tsp galangal, chopped
1 stalk lemongrass, trimmed and chopped
6 coriander roots, scrubbed and chopped
1 tsp Thai shrimp paste, roasted

Curry:

350 g firm white fish (bluenose, hapuku, snapper, trevally etc)
8 snake beans (or 15 - 20 french beans, snow peas, asparagus etc)
100 ml peanut oil
2 tab crushed palm sugar
2 tab fish sauce
2 tsp dried shrimp, soaked in warm water 20 min

In small heavy pan roast spices separately until they just start to change colour. Grind. Wrap shrimp paste in foil and heat in pan for about 5 min until you can smell it.
Pound all paste ingredients in a mortar or grind in small food processor, adding a little cold water if necessary (NOT oil).

Blanch beans and drain. Drain shrimps and add to beans, mix with sugar and fish sauce. Cut fish into bite size chunks.

Heat wok over high heat, add half of oil, stir-fry fish (in batches) until starting to brown but not cooked through. Set fish aside.

Add remaining oil to wok, add paste and stir-fry until fragrant - about 5 min. Add beans etc and stir-fry 1 minute. Add fish, stir-fry 1 minute.

Serve with Jasmine rice.

davidt4 - 2019-02-08 12:03:00

Thai curry - you can do fish or prawns or both. A refreshing noodle salad on the side with capsicum, cucumber, chili, coriander.

lulu-belle1 - 2019-02-08 12:05:00

Bump :) that Thai curry sounds AMaZing!

pasilika - 2019-05-16 14:28:00

Just a note about the recipe. you REALLY need to know what the chillies are, and what your guest tolerances are.

I've grown several varieties this year, and one plant I bought was labeled "Wildfire". Now I've grown that variety before, and they have been a medium heat, like put 3 of them in a curry and enjoy. This years plant they were 2X as big, and 2X as hot... So ONE would be plenty for most people.

And lets not start on the more exotic ones.. Suffice to say there are varieties where just waving one over the pot would make it hot. :D
Trinidad Scorpions make my nose run just cutting one up, and you will only ever forget to wash your hands afterwards once... Put it this way, don't rub your eye, pick your nose, or go to the toilet until you have washed you hands WELL.

ianab - 2019-05-18 21:50:00