Thai red curry paste

Name: Thai red curry paste
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: chillies; shallots; cloves; garlic; coriander roots; shrimp paste; dried chillies; coriander seeds; paste; oil; chillies; seed; lime; lime; leaves; lemon grass; paste; root ginger; fish sauce; oil; galangal

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

Various ready-made red Thai curry pastes are on the scene now (the Thai Nam Jai brand is particularly good), but for true die-hard curry-ites, heres how to make your own.

Method

De-seed 6 long red dried chillies and 4 small red birdseye chillies