Photo: Swathi Handique
How to make Thai green curry with prawns
25 ingredients
30 min + 30 min
Serves 4
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This succulent Thai green curry recipe involves making your own curry paste. It's very simple and adds brilliant freshness of flavour.
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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