How To Make Thai Red Chicken Curry Paste From Scratch

Gaeng daeng gai is a popular Thai dish for Thai people that is made using red curry paste that is cooked in coconut milk. Meat such as beef, pork or chicken can also be added. Tofu can also used to add to the dish instead of meat for vegans. In today’s post, let us talk about how to make red curry paste and the recipe on how to make Gaeng Daeng Gai (Red curry).

Make Thai Red Chicken Curry Paste

Making Thai Red curry paste from scratch is very simple, although there are ready made curry paste available for purchase in most of the local grocery stores but it is preferable to make curry paste at the comfort of home. Homemade curry paste as compared to store bought curry paste are more delicious and are more healthy too.

Red curry paste is an excellent ingredient to Thai curry dishes such as beef curry, vegetarian curries and fish curry, not to mention the famous Red Chicken Curry paste.

You have the option to adjust the ingredients used in making curry paste especially in terms of how you want the level of spiciness to that paste. You can simply add or reduce the chili or the chili sauce to the paste recipe. For vegan options, you can opt to use soy sauce can be a good substitute for fish sauce and for shrimp paste you can use golden mountain sauce instead.

Meats such as chicken, beef, pork. duck, shrimp can be added as protein source to the Thai dish.

Thai Red Curry Paste Recipe

• Preparation time: 20 mins
• Serving size: 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup onion (purple) or 1 shallot (chopped)
• 1 stalk fresh lemongrass (minced)
• 1 or 2 red chilies or 3 tsp. Thai Chili sauce or 1 tsp. cayenne powder
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 galangal or garlic (peeled and sliced)
• 2 Tbsp. Tomato ketchup
• 2 tbsp. Fish sauce or 1 tbsp. Soy sauce (vegan option)
• 2 tbsp. lime juice (squeezed)
• 2 tbsp. Chili powder or 2 tsp. Asian Chili powder
• 3 tbsp. coconut milk
• 1 tsp. Shrimp paste or 1 tbsp. Golden mountain sauce (vegan option)
• 1 tsp. sugar
• 1 tsp. cumin (ground)
• 3/4 tsp. coriander (ground)
• 1/4 tsp. White pepper (ground)
• 1/4 tsp Cinnamon (Ground)

Instructions:

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Before we proceed with how to make chicken red curry paste, let us first talk into detail each of the ingredients that will be used in this recipe.

• Red curry paste – the recipe for making this ingredient was previously mentioned beforehand in this article. It is considered to be the core ingredient in making this recipe.
• Coconut milk – If you want the curry to be rich and creamy, adding coconut milk will do the trick. Full fat coconut milk is recommended to use.
• Chicken Thigh- You can either use Chicken breast or the chicken thigh, but it is recommdned to use the thigh part instead for the purpose that with chicken thighs will go through braising to make it more tender hence the curry sauce with be loaded on to the chicken to make it more flavorful.
• Chicken Stock- Although you can also use water, but if want to intensify the flavor of your dish you can choose to use chicken stock instead. Make sure that chicken stock is unsalted so as not to add to much salt to the dish since the paste and the fish sauce are already salty.
• Fish Sauce- for vegan options as mentioned, you can choose soy sauce as an alternative.
• Palm Sugar – If you do no have access to palm sugar, you can also use granulated sugar or light brown sugar instead.
• Kabocha Squash – a sweet squash will make the curry more creams when paired it with red curry.
• Thai Basil – use Italian basil instead if Thai basil is not available.
• Red Pepper- To add more color to the dish, you can add red pepper.

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Chicken Red Curry Paste Recipe

• Preparation time: 10 mins
• Cooking time: 10 mins
• Total time: 20 mins

Ingredients:

• 1 lb. boneless chicken breast or Chicken Thigh
• 1 can bamboo shoots (sliced diagonally)
• 3 tbsp. red curry paste
• 2 cups coconut milk
• 2 red chili (fresh; sliced)
• 1/2 cup Sweet basil leaves
• 2 tbsp. fish sauce
• 1/4 tsp. sea salt
• 1 1/2 palm sugar

Directions

1. Sliced diagonally bamboo shoots into different sizes: 1/2 cc thick. 3 cm wide and 3 cm long.
2. In a wok, pour in 1 cup of coconut milk. Over medium high heat, bring to boil while continuously stirring.
3. Add curry paste then continue to stir until a red oil appears.
4. Add chicken and sauté Chicken meat (Chicken breast or Chicken Thigh) until it is cooked enough.
5. Add the remaining coconut milk (1 cup) and bamboo shoots.
6. Add in fish sauce, sugar and salt then bring to boil.
7. Sprinkle the mixture with Kaffir lime leaves, sweet basil leaves and chilies.
8. Remove wok from cooking stove.
9. Place on serving dish. Add sweet basil leaves then serve.

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FAQs

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