This is the homemade alternative to the store bought green Thai curry paste. Often the store bought versions contain some kind of shrimp or fish, but you can be lucky to find one without it.
Nevertheless this version is fresh and you can be sure to have a fully vegan, healthy, green curry paste, you will know is without preservatives and colourant.
One thing I find odd though - this paste looks green, but when you cook with it, it becomes this very light green, kinda beige colour, specially in coconut milk. Nevertheless the taste is like a green curry, and tastes better than the store bough version.
When I come to think of it, the store bought version is SO green is kinda scary, wonder what they put in it ???
But don't worry, when you make it yourself you know it's only the good stuff, no chemicals !
This batch makes a generous portion of about 300 ml (10 oz).
For a recipe for 4 people I use about 150ml (5 oz) or more of this paste, so it will last for about 2 times of cooking, depending on how much paste you like. Freeze the rest and use whenever you need it.
You can also try and make my Vegan Red Thai Curry Paste at the same time. You can also make bigger portion of both the pastes and freeze them in the sizes you want for next time. No more food waste and goodbye store bought chemical Thai paste.
You can use the paste in the Vegan Red Thai Coconut Curry, but substitute the red curry paste with the green. Or you can use it in the Rice Noodle Coconut Green Curry Soup or the Vegan Lao Laab / Larb.
Makes 300 ml (10 oz)
Ingredients
- 5-8 small green chilies (as spicy as you like it)
- 5 garlic cloves
- 3 stalks lemongrass
- 2-3 thumbs of ginger
- 2 stalks of spring onion
- 1/4 yellow onion
- ½ green bell pepper
- 2-3 teaspoons galangal paste
- 3 teaspoons coriander seeds
- 3 teaspoons cumin
- 1 teaspoons mustard seeds
- Juice from 1 lime
What you will need
- Cutting board and knife
- Blender
- Tight lid storage jar
Instructions
- Take the outer layer of the lemongrass and garlic off. Roughly chop them.
- Chop the small green chilies. If you don’t wish to make the paste too hot, you can deseed the chilies. I chose to use 8 of the small hot chilies with the seeds. Use as many as you prefer, with or without seeds.
- Peel and chop the ginger, chop the spring onion and yellow onion. Deseed the green bell pepper and roughly chop it.
- Add all the ingredients to the blender with the galangal paste, coriander seeds, mustard seeds, cumin and lime juice. Blend until smooth.
- Refridgerate what you wanna use straight away, freeze the rest in portion sizes and take out as you need them.
Use in: Rice Noodle Coconut Green Curry Soup or in the Vegan Red Thai Coconut Curry, or any other dish you like.
Enjoy !
