Hello everyone. Today I want to tell you how to prepare a
healthy vegetable curry. You know, people who like to eat meat
always say that vegetable is tasteless but I'm convinced that you
will be submit to this incredibly delicious vegetable curry herbs and spices.
healthy vegetable curry. You know, people who like to eat meat
always say that vegetable is tasteless but I'm convinced that you
will be submit to this incredibly delicious vegetable curry herbs and spices.
Let's
take a look how to do it. You can get our recipe in the description like this:
These are the ingredients. We begin with making
a curry paste. Ginger, candle nuts, onion, garlic, lemongrass,
some fresh red chili, galangal, and some dried chili. Cut all these ingredients
into small pieces, so that it is easy to be blended with the food processor.
This is the ginger, candle nut and the garlic, yam, tofu, coconut milk. You can
just put it into the food processor straight away. As for the onion, cut into large chunks. As for the
lemongrass, cut away the stem and remove the outer sheath, the first layer.
Then cut it into slices. As for the red chili, remove the stem and then cut it
lengthwise and use the knife to remove the pith and the seed, and then cut it
into small pieces. Put it into the food processor. If you like the curry to be spicier,
add one or two of these kind of dried chili. Cut into small pieces and throw it
into the food processor. Galangal is the
Last. The outer part of the galangal is quite hard and fiber. Cut it away
otherwise it is quite difficult to blend it into a smooth paste. Cut the
galangal into thin slices so that it is easy to blend. Now we have all
the ingredients for the curry paste inside the food processor. Cover
it, add a little bit of oil to facilitate blending and blend it until really
smooth.
You
may add some water if you find it is too dry, it will take about five or even
more than five minutes, to turn it into a smooth paste. When five minutes is up,
transfer the curry paste into a pan. Saute the curry paste over low heat until
all the water has evaporated. After some time and what is left now are only the
herbs and spices and the oil. And now it starts to thicken.
From
now on you have to keep stirring it because it tends to stick easily.
After
the curry paste turns aromatic, now we can move on to the next step.
Now let's prepare the vegetables. You can
use any vegetables you like but today I'm using the vegetables that are commonly
used by the Cambodian for this recipe.
This is called snake bean which is a variation
of long bean and French bean.
Next eggplant; you can use the eggplant that
is long; it's really up to you.
And a stick of carrot; I also include tofu
puffs in the recipe.
If you do not have tofu puffs,
substitute with any other kinds of firm Tofu.
Cut the tofu puffs into two. Lastly I
also include some cabbage in this recipe.
Now let's get back to the curry paste. Heat it
up and add half a cup of fresh coconut milk, and also vegetable stock.
If
you don't have vegetable stock you can just use water or you can add some
vegetable seasoning powder. Bring it to a boil and add the turmeric powder, curry
powder, the kaffir lime leaves, a few pieces of kaffir lime leaves and curry
leaves. If you find it is too thick you can always add some additional
vegetable stock or water. You can season now with sugar and salt. Now we add in
the vegetables, starting from those needs more time to cook: the carrot, the
cabbage. Simmer until both vegetables start to turn soft. Next the eggplants; and
the beans; Cook for another five to ten minutes until the vegetables are soft,
then add the tofu puffs. The tofu pants are always added last because it is
already cooked.
Once it is
done remove and serve. Do not cook any longer because the vegetable will then
lost the vibrancy color. This is the Cambodian style vegetable curry,
best to serve along with plain rice. This is how I prepare the healthy
vegetable curry style. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you very much.