Dec 26

How to cook... Penang Curry

By Richard Barrow Email

Friday 26th December, 2008 | 250 words | Category: Enjoy Thai Food | 4 feedbacks »

Penang curry is one of my favourite Thai dishes. It is simple to make as long as you can buy the ready-prepared chilli paste. In the ingredients below, you can see coriander, sliced beef (you can also use pork or chicken), sliced spur chilli, thinly sliced kaffir lime leaves, sweet basil, coconut milk and penang chili paste in the middle. If you don't have the chilli paste, you can use a carton like the one in the picture that already mixes coconut milk, chilli paste, fish sauce and palm sugar. The taste is good but not really authentic as it is for foreigners. The paste contains ingredients such as dried chillies, shallots, garlic, galangal, lemon grass, coriander root and shrimp paste.

Fry the chilli paste in a pan making sure it doesn't dry out or burn. Gradually keep adding more coconut to keep it moist. Keep going for about four minutes or so. Next, add the sliced beef. If you didn't use the pre-prepared sauce, season the curry with fish sauce and palm sugar. Make sure that you taste it to check the balance of flavours. If too sweet, add more salt. Adding more coconut milk can also help with the final taste but this shouldn't be a runny curry. Finish with the spur chilli, sliced kaffir lime leaves and coriander. Save the sweet basil and some kaffir lime leaves for decoration. Check out our websites at www.EnjoyThaiFood.com and www.ThaiStreetFood.com for more pictures of Thai food.

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Comment from: ReneThai · http://thaisekeuken.startpagina.nl
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Hi , thanks so much for your weekly Thai recipe.
I read them all and sometimes try to make a dish myself. I dont know if you can make a recipe of Kiauw Nam , wonton soup.That would be great. Or did I miss it and is it already on this website ?

Thanks

Rene from Holland :

See my list of all Thai restaurants in my country ( only with website )

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26/12/2008 @ 21:01
Comment from: john brook · http://www.udonthani.co.uk/
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Penang Curry with thai rice 2 cold tiger beers thats life
thanks for the post the picture looks really yummy
01/01/2009 @ 23:19
Comment from: Tommy · http://www.thailand-travelonline.com
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Panang tastes very nice and is not hard to cook. I always cooked it to my farang friends when I was in the states. They loved it!
06/01/2009 @ 09:45
Comment from: anat rimrut
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keep up the good work thank you
08/01/2009 @ 13:09

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