Spring Green Thai Curry Paste

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Stir this bright, tingling, fresh-tasting curry paste into coconut milk, and you’ve got a delicious condiment for chicken, fish, shellfish and arsenic galore vegetables arsenic volition acceptable successful the pot. Remember to deterioration gloves erstwhile handling chilies.

For a little spicy paste, omit the Thai chilies and usage lone serrano peppers. For a spicier version, usage some types of chilies and see the seeds.

Traditionalists usage a mortar and pestle to lb this blend of chilies, herbs and spices into a paste, but a nutrient processor oregon high-powered blender (such arsenic a NutriBullet oregon Vitamix) makes speedy enactment of the full process.

Shrimp paste is disposable astatine Asian and immoderate Latino markets.

The paste tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days (the colour whitethorn darken a bit); it tin beryllium frozen for up to 3 months.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2.5 cups; makes 5 4-ounce jars

12 greenish Thai chile peppers (stemmed and seeded), coarsely chopped
12 serrano chile peppers (stemmed and seeded), coarsely chopped arsenic needed
3 mean stalks lemongrass (tough outer layers removed), chopped into 1-inch lengths
3 limes, juiced, zest chopped into strips with a rootlike peeler (white pith removed)
2 ounces (a chunky 3-inch piece) caller galangal oregon ginger root, peeled and coarsely chopped
1 cupful packed cilantro leaves and tender stems, coarsely chopped
1 cupful packed mint leaves
1 cupful packed basil leaves
3 outpouring onions, trimmed and chopped (white and greenish parts)
2 bunches greenish garlic, chopped (may substitute 2 bunches ramps oregon 2 heads garlic, cloves separated and peeled)
1 tablespoonful food sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
1/2 spoon crushed cumin
1/2 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1/2 cupful water
2 teaspoons shrimp paste (optional)

Nutritional Facts

Per 1/2 cup

Calories
60
Carbohydrates
13 g
Sodium
650 mg
Protein
3 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014).

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published May 8, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026