Green/red curry paste

[thickym]

I cooked a thai green curry for the first time yesterday, but used a shop bought paste.

Has anyone got a recipe for a good red or green paste that I can make from scratch. I have looked some recipes up on google...but they all seem to have ingredients I've never heard of in it!!!

By the way...my curry was kind of 'soupy' rather than coating the meat like an indian curry....was this correct...or did I put in too much coconut milk?

Thanks

[Buenchico]

Thai curry can sometimes be 'soupy' but it's probably largely a matter of taste. (i.e. if you think that it might be better without quite so much coconut milk, just leave some out). There are no fixed rules - just make it the way you like it.

This recipe for Green Curry Paste uses readily available ingredients. (Well, all but one - but there's an alternative given): http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/greencurrypas te_67789.shtml

For lots of suggestions as to what use your paste for, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk and type 'thai green curry recipe' into the search box in the top-left corner.

Chris

[snapdarlich]

My brother's wife is Thai and she uses the tubs of paste from thai and chinese supermarkets. And her family do that too in Thailand, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

[cenafrankthai]

Green curry paste is nothing but another sort of the same application that is being utilized in the preparation of red curry paste.