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THAI CURRY PASTE

Introduction

Thai curry paste is one of the most important ingredient of Thai curry. Curry paste has different types and each types, is used to cook different kinds of Thai curry. Curry paste is made from Thai spices and herbs.

Types of Thai curry paste 1.1 Red curry paste Red curry paste is the most famous curry paste in Thailand. This type of curry paste is used to make red curry such as Kaeng pa kai (jungle curry with chicken). Red curry paste uses many ingredients which are pepper, salt, shrimp paste, garlic, celery root, shallots, dried chilli, skin of bergamot, galangal and lemongrass. 1.2 Green curry paste Green curry paste is used to make green curry such as Kaeng kieow waan kai (Green Curry With Chicken). This type of curry paste uses the same ingredients as the red curry paste except dried chilli which is replaced by guinea-pepper which has 2 colours : the red and green. To make green curry paste, it needs only the green one to make the curry paste have green colour. 1.3 Tamarind paste Tamarind paste is used to make sour soup such as Kaeng som (Sour soup with fish and mixed vegetables). It gives sour taste from tamarind. Its ingredients consist of pepper, salt, shrimp paste, garlic, celery root, shallots, dried chilli and tamarind. 1.4 spicy mixed vegetable curry paste This type of curry paste is used to make Kaeng liang (spicy mixed vegetable soup). The special thing of this curry paste is there is no chilli, only pepper is used to make this kind of curry paste spicy. This curry paste has been used for a long time before guinea-pepper came to Thailand. The ingredients of spicy mixed vegetable curry paste consist of pepper, salt, shrimp paste, celery root, shallots, dried shrimp.

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