One of the main ingredients for making Thai green chicken curry is obviously, chicken. However, there are a lot many ingredients that work together to give the green chicken curry it's aromatic flavour. It is quite possible that someone in your home might not like chicken for one reason or the other. In normal circumstances, you would surely exclude the green chicken curry from their menu. This would be sad as, the delicious taste of green chicken curry can be easily experienced in another very similar Thai food dish. A very interesting suggestion, is to use the same green chicken curry recipe and leave the chicken out from the list of ingredients. Instead of the chicken, try using fish or even beef. This will let you experience the exotic flavor of this very popular Thai food dish without chicken.

Just for your information, the Thai word for this curry is 'Kaeng Khio Waan', the word Kaeng means curry, Khio means green and Waan means sweet. If you hear of Kaeng Khio Waan - Kai, the word Kai means chicken. The word for fish is 'plaa' and the word for beef is 'neua woo-a'. The Thai green curry with fish would therefore be called, Kaeng Khio Waan - Plaa and the green curry with beef would be called, Kaeng Khio Waan - Neua Woo-a or just Kaeng Khio Waan - Neua. There is a very special green curry paste that goes into the making of the Thai green chicken curry. You could find this paste in your grocery as a ready to use item but, try preparing this yourself and you will be rewarded with an amazing taste and flavour.

Before we wind up this write up, one very interesting tip about shrimp paste. Thai food cooking uses shrimp many dishes and there is a relatively unknown thing about this Thai food ingredient. Before you use shrimp paste, wrap the required proportion in an aluminium foil. Then place it under a heated grill for 2-3 minutes, during this time turn the packet over a couple of times. Open the aluminium foil and use the shrimp paste. This small step adds a rich and full aroma to the shrimp paste. Most recipes do not mention this step for reasons unknown. Try it out yourself, check the flavor and you will be glad that you read this tip.

You can read a very comprehensive, simple and detailed Thai food recipe for Thai green chicken curry at this link. You could ofcourse try the variations in the green curry recipe by substituting, chicken with fish or beef. The interesting tip on enhancing the flavor of shrimp paste was also taken from the same link:

http://www.thaifood.food-recipe-cooking.com/green-chicken-curry-thai-nv-01.htm


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