Panang Curry

Kerri made Panang Curry, the least spicy curry.

The ingredients were:

  • 5 dried chillies, seeded and soaked
  • 10 cloves garlic, finely chopped
  • 3 shallots, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp lemongrass, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp galangal, finely chopped
  • 1 tsp coriander root, chopped.
  • 1/2 tsp kaffir lime rind, finely chopped.
  • 1 tbsp peanuts, roasted and ground
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 stp shrimp paste

 

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This is Kerri doing the fine chopping.

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And then she ground the whole mess with a mortar and pestle.

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After making the paste we had to decide how spicy we wanted our curry. Elementary school, high school or University level.

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Kerri answered “newborn”.

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So she gave me the tiny daub on the left. Matt’s is on the right with much more of the spicier red curry paste.

Then it was heated in a wok with 1 cup coconut cream, 100g chicken breast 1 tbsp pea eggplant, 2 tsp palm sugar and 2 tbsp fish sauce.

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And then some other stuff was thrown on top for garnish.

It tastes like spicy coconut milk. The only way to make it worse would be to add chocolate.

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So Matt got double curry.

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