Thai Red Curry Paste Recipe

Thai Red Curry Paste

Making your own Thai chili paste, or curry, is an important part of truly learning about Thai cuisine and why it taste the way it does. Thai Red Curry has an amazing blend of flavors and aromas from fresh lemongrass, galagal, kaffir lime, and dry roasted cumin, coriander, and peppercorns. Follow our easy recipe and you can learn to make Phrik Gaeng Ped.

Yield: About 1 cup
Prep time: About 1 hour
Ready in: 1 Hour
Ingredients:
  • 7 - 8 Sun Dried Thai Chili
  • 3 - 4 Sun Dried Thai Hot Chili
  • 4 Tablespoons Lemon grass
  • 1 1/2 Tablespoons Galangal Root
  • 1 Tablespoons Coriander Root
  • 3/4 Cup Red Shallots
  • 1/2 Cup Garlic
  • 1 Tablespoon Kaffir Lime Peel
  • 1/2 Tablespoons Thai shrimp paste
  • 1 Tablespoon Coriander Seeds
  • 1/2 Tablespoons Cumin Seed
  • 1/4 Teaspoon White Peppercorns
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
Basic Directions:

1) Cut and measure all the ingredients.

2) Grind all the ingredients together, one by one, starting with the hardest and working down to the softest until a fine red paste is obtained.
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