Thai Curry Sauce

There are some perfectly acceptable prepared red and green pastes on the market, but to my mind they don’t compare with those made at home.

Authentic Thai sauces are made by first producing a spice paste, either red, using dried red chillies, or green, using fresh green chillies. The green is hotter and more sour in flavour than the red, but both are delicious.

Nobby-looking galangal, with its almost camphorised scent and flavour, is similar to root ginger, but really does a