Low fat Thai green curry

Daisy80

Hi

One of my biggest downfalls is a Thai green curry! Oh how I love it
I cam across a great low fat recipe. You make everything from scratch including the curry paste! For me it is the occasional treat and it tastes great. I'm a vegetarian so I just replace the chicken with more veg.

Here is how to do it:

Serves 4
Preparation time 20 minutes
Cooking time 15 minutes
Ingredients
For the paste
• 2 long green chillies
• 10 green birds eye chillies
• 1 tbsp chopped lemon grass
• 3 shallots, peeled and chopped
• 8 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
• Small bunch fresh coriander, with roots if you can find them
• ½ tsp ground cumin
• 2 tsp ground coriander
• ½ tsp white pepper, you know the old fashion stuff that makes you sneeze - it's rife in Thailand and really distinctive in their cooking
• 3 lime leaves, chopped
• 2 tsp of shrimp paste, you can buy this in the supermarket now
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp of groundnut or vegetable oil
• 2-3 tbsp of water
For the curry
• 2 chicken breasts, sliced
• 8 green aubergines, quartered (asparagus or purple aubergines will work just as well)
• 2 handfuls of spring pea aubergines picked off their stems
• 1 x 400g can low fat coconut milk
• 2 tbsp fish sauce
• 1 tbsp palm, brown sugar or fruit sugar
• 2 lime leaves, sliced
• 1 red chilli, sliced
• Thai basil to serve
Nutritional Information
Per serving: Thai green curry: 448kcals, 12.8g fat
Thai green curry paste: 20kcals, 1.2g of fat
Curry (without paste): 211kcals,11g of fat
60g raw rice per person: 217kcals, 0.6g of fat
Method: How to make Thai green curry
1. Put all of the paste ingredients into a blender and blitz until smooth. Heat a wok then add one third of the paste to the paste to the pan. Stir-fry for one minute or until the rooms fills with a gorgeous aroma, then add in the chicken. Coat the chicken in the paste, then add in both lots of the aubergines.
2. Pour over the coconut milk, fish sauce, sugar, lime leaves and chilli and let simmer for about 7 minutes or until the chicken and aubergines are cooked through and the sauce has thickened a little.
3. Pour into a serving pot and sprinkle with Thai basil leaves. Serve with Thai fragrant rice.

Enjoy!!

Daisy