Spring Green Thai Curry With Mussels and Asparagus

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Tingling and bright, spicy and refreshing, this crockery celebrates outpouring foods. Add fiddleheads alternatively of (or successful summation to) the peas. Substitute morels for cremini mushrooms.

You tin usage clams, shrimp, pieces of cod oregon halibut alternatively of the mussels. This curry is adaptable; effort it with chicken, too.

Mussels should beryllium rinsed good earlier cooking, with immoderate beards pulled off. Before cooking, discard immoderate mussels that are unfastened and won't adjacent tightly erstwhile tapped.

Serve with rice, if you like.

Palm sweetener is disposable astatine Whole Foods Markets, immoderate Harris Teeter stores and astatine Latino and planetary markets.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 3-4

3 tablespoons grapeseed oregon different neutral oil
8 cremini mushrooms, stemmed and quartered
8 ounces asparagus, trimmed and chopped into 2-inch lengths
1 cupful freshly shelled oregon frozen/defrosted greenish peas
1/2 cupful (4 ounces) Spring Green Thai Curry Paste (see related recipe)
2 teaspoons thenar sweetener (see headnote)
One 13.5-to-14-ounce tin coconut beverage (not shaken oregon blended)
2 1/2 pounds caller mussels successful the shell, scrubbed, beards removed
3 scallions (white and greenish parts), chopped into 1-inch pieces
1/4 cupful packed cilantro leaves, minced, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 4)

Calories
390
Fat
30 g
Saturated Fat
18 g
Carbohydrates
20 g
Sodium
400 mg
Cholesterol
20 mg
Protein
14 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
6 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