HOMEMADE JUNGLE CURRY WITH SMOKED HADDOCK
Jungle Curry
Serve: 2
Ingredients for curry paste:
1 Roast red chilli
2 clove Garlic
1/2 Red onion – chopped into chunks
10 gram Ginger – peeled and chopped into chunks
1/4 tsp Salt
1 tbs Lemon grass purée
2 Kaffir lime leaf
3 pieces Lime peel
25 gram Lesser galangal – sliced lengthways
1/2 tsp Shrimp paste
Ingredients for curry:
2 piece Smoked haddock (frozen)
110 gram Raw king prawns
1 tbs Coconut oil
100 gram Green beans – trimmed
100 gram Sweet potato
70 gram Baby sweetcorn – trimmed
1/2 Carrot – sliced
1/2 Red pepper – chopped into chunks
20 gram Fresh peppercorn with stem
25 gram Lesser galangal – sliced lengthways
2 cup Water
1/2 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Fish sauce
1 tsp Light soy sauce
1 tsp Oyster sauce
1/2 tsp Dark soy sauce
1 pinch Salt
20 Basil leaves
400ml Water
20ml Rapeseed oil
1 pinch Ground black pepper
Method
Method:
– Pre heat the oven to 200 Celsius.
– Wrap the smoked haddock in a baking paper parcel and drizzle with rapeseed oil. Then close the edge.
– Put the sweet potato on a baking tray, season with salt and pepper then drizzle with the rapeseed oil.
– Put the smoked haddock parcels and sweet potato in the oven for approx 20-25 minutes. In the mean time, start making the curry.
– Use an electric blender to blend the roasted red chilli, garlic, red onion, ginger, lemon grass purée, kiffir lime leaf, lime peels, lesser galangal, shrimp paste and salt until it forms a paste.
– Put the coconut oil in the pan, then add 4 tablespoons of the curry paste and gently heat for 5 minute. Then add 400 ml of water, bring it to a boil.
– Add the green beans, baby sweetcorn, carrot, red pepper, fresh peppercorn, lesser galangal and season with sugar, fish sauce, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce and oyster sauce. Simmer for 25 minutes.
– Put the raw king prawns in the pot. Add a pinch of salt, turn the heat up and cover the pan for a further 5 minutes.
– Fold the basil leaves in the pan. Then transfer the curry into a serving bowl. Scatter the roast sweet potato and lay the smoked haddock on top of the curry.
– Serve this homemade Jungle Curry with Thai Jasmine rice… yummy. Happy cooking.
Tip:
If you prefer a spicy Jungle Curry, use all of the prepared curry paste. Happy cooking!
