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Exciting. I love curry and I know you love curry, and as curry lovers, how exciting is it to think about us making delicious Thai yellow curry paste truly from scratch? It’s exciting. Delicious. Seriously, a good yellow curry is a gift from heaven. Which is why we need to start with the paste and then expand from there into a full yellow curry recipe. For example – I have this existing recipe for Thai Yellow Curry with Beef and Potatoes and I will be sharing another even easier recipe for Thai Yellow Chicken Curry tomorrow (update: find it here!). The bite of heat, the punch of color, the comforting, creamy texture of the coconut milk simmered to slow yellow curry perfection … wow. It’s almost just too much. ♡ Lowerish maintenance. I really worked hard to make this recipe accessible to the person who doesn’t like to go to more than one grocery store –> points to self <—. When I had my friends over for dinner club and we made that Thai Yellow Curry with Beef and Potatoes from scratch, I did the real official thing where I went and got a few ingredients from the Asian grocery store that is awesomely two miles from my house, and I’m really glad I did for that time. But that was a special occasion, okay? I don’t like to double up on grocery store visits if I can avoid it. So I re-made the curry paste (the version you’re seeing in this here recipe) using only ingredients that I could find at the grocery store I normally shop at. NO EXTRA TRIPS! If you do want to make the extra trip to the Asian grocery store, good on you! You’ll have a more traditional and wonderful curry paste (and you can use the curry paste recipe in this post which includes those harder-to-find ingredients). But for the rest of us – this is it! Large grocery store ingredient yellow curry paste.
In This Post: Everything You Need For Thai Yellow Curry Paste
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Ingredients For Yellow Curry Paste
If you have access to a local Asian grocery store, you can find a lot of these ingredients there. If you don’t have one near you, these ingredients can also be found at a larger grocery store chain.
shallots and garlic fresh ginger dried Thai red chili peppers curry powder, turmeric, and coriander lemongrass paste cilantro
How To Make This Curry Paste
Once you have your ingredients, it’s a snap to bring this paste to the next level.
Use Fresh Spices
We’re using mild curry powder, turmeric, and coriander in this yellow curry paste. To give your paste the best flavorful punch, we’d recommend using fresh spices. Check your spices to make sure they haven’t expired. Over time, spices lose some of their punch and won’t make the paste taste as intended. Typically ground spices, like what we’re using, will stay fresh and potent for about 2-3 years. If you can’t find any of the spices already ground, you can use a mortar and pestle to grind up whole spices into a powder.
Freeze Extra Batches Of Curry Paste
What’s going to happen here is that you’re going to spend 45 minutes making this yellow curry paste (30 of which involve waiting for the garlic and shallots to roast, so hiiiii phone games) and after you put in the time to make this yellow curry paste, you will be giving yourself the gift of 4+ batches of homemade curry ready to go at a moment’s notice because this stuff can FREEZE, baby. Awyeah. Homemade Thai yellow curry on demand is a very, very good thing. Hot tip! Freeze extra paste in an ice cube tray for pre-portioned paste amounts next round!
How To Serve This Curry Paste
Oh, let us count the ways you can use this yellow curry paste. ENDLESS, friends. Truly endless ways. Favorites include:
Smothered on top of vegetables In this beef curry or chicken curry With shrimp or another type of seafood
Anyone Can Make This Curry Paste
And that’s that, my curry loving friends! Who even knew that this could be so do-able? When I first made curry officially from scratch for that dinner club beef and potato yellow curry, I thought to myself: this is awesome and also I don’t think I will make it again because it takes so long. It was a three hour process (and more, including the time it took me to drive to the Asian grocery store and get the galangal and shrimp paste), and for me, that’s just not going to happen. But you guys – my love for curry runs deep. And after making it completely from scratch and realizing HOW GOOD IT CAN REALLY BE, I couldn’t not at least try to make it again, and maybe make it a little easier. And now? Look at us being all We Make My Own Yellow Curry Paste! I plan to make a batch of this easier, time-saver, extremely yummy curry paste once every few months to keep feeding my yellow curry habits. Lots of yummy curry paste-filled dishes ahead! Yel-low-curry! Yel-low-curry! Yel-low-curry! I don’t know, we might be sort of obsessed. Source notes: This recipe uses easier-to-find ingredients in the case that you don’t have access to an Asian grocery store near you. Traditionally when making yellow curry paste from scratch, you’d blend all of your ingredients using a mortar and pestle to make a fine paste by hand. Some more traditional and authentic curry paste recipes add galangal or shrimp paste, two very delicious ingredients. To make a more authentic version like this, we’d suggest checking out Char from Wok & Skillet’s Yellow Curry Paste recipe. PS. I was on TV this week! More importantly: SAGE WAS ON TV THIS WEEK! I sort of forgot to tell you because I was too busy feeding my nervousness with too many ultra thick and soft chocolate chip cookies. But I survived! and I managed to talk about food photography hacks and show off the magic green sauce and inner goddess truffles without making anyone too uncomfortable. Win? 4.7 from 109 reviews For a more traditional Thai yellow curry paste that features a few harder-to-find but true to actual curry ingredients, check out this recipe. If you want to see more pictures of the day and/or the actual clip itself, join us in our private VIP Facebook group for the bestest of the best Pinch of Yum readers. 👍 You request to join, I’ll add you, and the fun times will rolllll.
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