Tasting Life One Dish At A Time

Entree

Red Curry Beef

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe

Red Curry Beef

From Step-by-Step Thai cooking. This is a really tasty red curry, with the sauce made form scratch. The green beans seems superfluous, so I marked them optional.***
Print Recipe
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Entree
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 6-10 dried red chilies soaked in hot water 15 minutes
  • 3 dried lime leaves or strips of lime zest soaked in hot water 15 minutes
  • 1 Tbsp coriander seed
  • 1/2 tsp caraway seed or cumin seed ,
  • 1 tsp shrimp paste
  • 1 medium onion finely chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1 3/4 inch ginger
  • 2 Tbsp cooking oil
  • 3 1/3 cups coconut milk lite ok ,
  • 2 lbs beef sirloin or round steak
  • 1 fresh red chili seeded and sliced
  • 6 1/2 oz green beans trimmed and cut into pieces
  • 2 Tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 lemongrass root chopped

Equipment

  • Food Processor

Method
 

  1. Drain chilies and limes leaves. Slit open chilies and scrape out seeds.
  2. Toast coriander, caraway seeds and shrimp paste in a dry wok until aromatic. Place in food processor and add lemon grass, garlic, onion and ginger. Process until well combined
  3. Add soaked chilies and lime leaves and food process until a smooth paste is formed.
  4. Heat oil in a wok. Add paste and cook for 3 min. Stir in coconut milk and cook for about 25 minutes (until oil floats to surface)
  5. Slice meat into strips 3/4 inches wide. Add meat and green beans to the mixture in the wok.
  6. Simmer 15 minutes. Add fish sauce and stir.

You may also like...