Red Curry Shrimp

Red Curry Shrimp

This is a Thai dish and is a bit on the spicy side. My wife, Rrayada made this today for a quick lunch for the family and step-daughter Ampair made a Thai Omelet to go with it.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Lunch, Main Dish
Cuisine Thai
Servings 6 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 kilo shrimp, heads, shells, and tails removed
  • 2 handfuls clove basil leaves, rinsed, or Thai basil will work
  • 2 tablespoons red curry paste
  • 2 tablespoons shrimp paste

Instructions
 

  • Heat a non stick pan and add the curry paste. This is real, hand made red curry paste here, this is spicy stuff, basically, Bird's Eye chilies, black pepper, red onion, garlic, and lemongrass.
  • Add the shrimp paste right after the curry paste. This is local made shrimp paste, shrimp and spices pounded in a mortar into a paste, very common ingredient in Thai cooking.
  • Mix and cook for just a few minutes then add the shrimp and mix into the curry and shrimp pastes, the shrimp will release water, then add the clove basil and mix that in, stir fry until the clove basil is good and wilted.
  • Serve, how easy was that? Good dishes to go with this is a Thai Omelet and rice.

Notes

Figure about 400 Baht for small white shrimp from Tesco, 2 kilos, removing the heads, peels and tails will give you about a kilo. Save all the scrap for shrimp stock later if you like and just freeze that. For 6 servings, this is about $1.97 per serving.
Watched my wife, Rrayada Thayer make this.
Thailand.

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