Kaeng Phed (Ped) – the red coconut milk curry is one of the most well-known Thai recipes. The prepearation is quite similar to the green coconut milk curry, but, how people in Thailand like to say: Same, same, but different. Thai food is so delicious, and there is so much to discover! Check whether you have any meals included in your Thai hotel special offers.
The hotel restaurant might have some yummy local curries for your to try.
If they don’t, not to worry, you will be able to try red curry at most restaurants!
You can even find it in street stands.
Not to worry- the vast majority of street food in Thailand is totally safe!

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Recipe: Red Thai Curry – Kaeng Phed
Ingredients for 2 persons:
1 package red curry paste or self made red curry paste
or about 50 g homemade red currypaste
250 ml coconutmilk
250 g meat (pork, beef, chicken…) in stripes or cubes
3-4 Makeur (Thai aubergine), quartered
1-2 Kaffir lime leaves
6-8 small Thai aubergines (Makeur puang)
Salt or fish sauce
Sugar or palm sugar
1-2 stems Horapa Thai Basil
1 red chili
2-3 TS thick coconut cream to garnish

Preparation:
Heat the coconutmilk in a pot, if it´s simmering
add the red currypaste and stir well.
Add the Kaffir lime leaves and the meat
and let it cook slowly until it´s done,
then add the Makeur and let it cook another 5 minutes.
Season the red curry with salt and sugar or fishsauce and palmsugar.
Garnish with whole or roughly chopped Horapa Thai basil leaves,
stripes of a red chili and a few tabespoons of thick coconut cream.
Serve the red coconut milk curry with steamed jasmin rice (fragrant Thai rice).


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3 Responses to “Recipe Red Thai Curry – Kaeng Phed”

  1. Kittencharmer says:

    Wow, that looks crazy good. Coconut + Curry = Love <3

  2. [...] served as a condiment to innumerable dishes and it is one of the most important ingredients for the red Thai Curry (Kaeng Pet) and the green Thai Curry (Kaeng Kiew [...]

  3. tije says:

    Could someone tell me the name of those sort of green peas?

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