Recipe: Tasty Thai green bean curry

Thai green bean curry. Fresh green beans are simmered in coconut milk with a variety of seasonings for a delicious side dish or as a vegetarian entree when served with rice. Add the green beans to the mixture and stir until evenly coated. A flavorful green bean curry using a riff on thai green curry sauce with help from store-bought curry paste.

Playing on the green theme, this Thai curry chicken is full of verdant vegetables, fresh basil and lime. Avoid overcooking this curry—you want the green beans and zucchini to stay bright and beautiful. That said, any leftovers are delicious reheated the next day. You can cook Thai green bean curry using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Thai green bean curry

1. It's 4 of shallots or one small onion, sliced.
2. You need 1 tbsp of vegetable oil.
3. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped.
4. You need 1 of chopped Thai chilli (or more if you like it hot).
5. You need 1 stick of lemongrass, bashed but left whole.
6. Prepare 2 of lime leaves.
7. You need 2 tbsp of Thai curry paste.
8. Prepare 1 tin of coconut milk.
9. Prepare 400 g of French beans (stalks removed).
10. You need 2 of tomatoes, core removed and cut into wedges.
11. It's 1 handful of greens such as pak choi or spinach, roughly chopped.
12. You need 1 handful of roasted cashew nuts.
13. Prepare of To taste: lime juice, sugar, soy sauce.
14. You need of Coriander to serve.

Add the coconut milk and fish sauce and bring to a simmer. Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan. Add the green curry paste and sugar and cook over a fairly high heat for about a minute, stirring with. Remove to a plate, add the remaining oil to the pan and fry the aubergine until browned.

Thai green bean curry instructions

1. Heat the oil in a saucepan and gently fry the sliced shallots until soft..
2. Add the garlic, lime leaves and lemongrass and stir until fragrant..
3. Add the spice mix and cook for a couple of minutes adding a splash of water if the spices stick..
4. Add the tin of coconut milk and then fill the empty tin with water and add this too..
5. Heat until it just starts to bubble and then add the beans and tomatoes. Simmer until the beans are cooked as you like them (5-10 minutes)..
6. Balance the flavours with lime, salt, sugar and soy..
7. Serve with rice or rice noodles and garnish with the cashew nuts and coriander..

What's a green Thai curry without the sweet crunch of a baby corn, or the tender bite of a snow pea? You'll certainly use up your ingredients, but run the risk of putting yourself off the meal for good (see last week's White Bean Dip for an example). Easy green curry with chicken in rich coconut curry sauce. They are small like ping pong balls. Short on time and looking for a Thai curry that's easy to make at home?