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How to make Thai green curry with prawns
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How to make Thai green curry with prawns

25 ingredients 30 min + 30 min Serves 4 openrecipes

This succulent Thai green curry recipe involves making your own curry paste. It's very simple and adds brilliant freshness of flavour.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

1059
Calories
67g
Protein
46g
Fat
99g
Carbs

Counts 18 of 21 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 18 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Coconut 1/2 cup shredded (40g) 283
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Bell Pepper 1 medium (119g) 31
Kaffir Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Cumin 1 tsp ground (2.1g) 8
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
White Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Lemongrass 1 tbsp (6g) 5
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Coriander not in our table 0
Seed not in our table 0
Leaf not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp coriander seeds
  • 1 tsp cumin
  • 1 shallot
  • 4 green bird’s-eye chillies
  • 4 garlic
  • thumb-sized piece fresh root ginger
  • 1 lemongrass
  • pinch salt
  • small bunch fresh coriander
  • 2 dried kaffir lime leaves
  • 1 tbsp fish sauce
  • pinch ground white pepper
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 aubergine
  • 1 x 400ml can coconut milk
  • 2 tbsp Thai green curry paste
  • 100g/3½oz fine green beans
  • 100ml/3½fl oz chicken or vegetable stock
  • 1 tbsp palm sugar, or caster sugar
  • 1-2 tsp Thai fish sauce
  • 500g/1lb 2oz raw, peeled king prawns
  • 1 dried kaffir lime leaf
  • 1 lime
  • small bunch fresh coriander
  • steamed jasmine rice

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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