Thai Green Curry

Here we go kids, its a Thai classic and its top banana tasty stuff!
We learn't to cook this at our cookery school in Chiang Mai, so this recipe is similer to theirs, but we've changed it slightly, basically cause it needed some Corriander in it and definately a lot more chilli! First make the paste then go on to make the curry.
This recipe should be good for 4 people, but don't quote me on that.


Green curry paste

Ingredients:

8 small green chillies
4 Garlic cloves
4 Shallots
2 Lemon grass sticks ( the white bit and about a third of the soft green bit)
1 thin slice of Galangal ( half a human ear size)
1 handfull of fresh Coriander
2 small 10p size pieces of Kaffir lime rind or normal lime rind
a pinch of Salt

To make the paste, shove all the ingredients in a blender or cut up till they're tiny, weeny pieces. Now put this green, gorgeous smelling mush into a morter and 'mash it up' till its a smooth paste. This will take 5-10 mins of mashing. This bits important cause it binds all the flavours together and won't leave any annoying bits of lemon grass floating around your curry.

Making the Curry

Ingredients:

1/2 a sliced Onion
2-3 breasts of chicken cut into smallish bits
some veggies, eggplant if you can get it, otherwise, courgette, broccoli, potatoe, etc)
2 teaspoons suger (brown or white)
2 tablespons fisg sauce
6 or so Kaffir lime leaves (fresh if possible, but dry will do)
a few Thai Basil leaves (Must be Thai basil, ordinary won't do)
1 can of coconut milk (not the half-fat crap)
1 pinch of salt

Cooking it:

Tip the coconut milk in a saucepan and bring to the boil, then lower the heat.
When you can see oil (coconut oil that is) on the top, it's time to put the chicken, onion and your paste in and give it a stir.
Once the chicken is cooked (4-5 mins) put your veggies, suger, fish sauce and salt in.

When everything is cooked, remove from the heat and stir in your lime and basil leaves.

Serve with rice (sticky or jasmine)

You may need to experiment with amounts of herbs and chilli to get your perfect curry.