Behold, my takeout tyrants! Here’s a tasty recipe for red curry you can quickly whip up at home. Bolstering your meal’s total nutritional value by filling your bowl with steamed veggies, such as broccoli, broccolini, green beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas, etc and lean protein, such as grilled chicken breast or shrimp. Prep at home and you’ll never find yourself fighting with your friend over the THREE? THREE SHRIMP?! that ever seem to make it to your house when delivered.
INGREDIENTS
2 tbsp Taste of Thai Red Curry Paste
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp crushed lemongrass
2 tsp crushed fresh ginger
1 tbsp of fresh lime juice
Dash of fish sauce
1 tsp of coconut oil
1 red pepper cut into strips
1 can bamboo shoots
DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan, heat the coconut oil on a medium heat. Add the garlic, lemongrass and ginger. Allow them to soften slightly, then add the curry paste and blend together. Once the curry paste is mixed in, add the coconut milk, lime juice and fish sauce. Reduce heat and allow it to simmer for a few minutes. Add the red pepper and bamboo shoots and cook till veggies are tender. Serve over 1/2 cup brown rice, as much steamed broccoli as you can handle and grilled or sautéed chicken or shrimp. Or try it with our faux-fried Coconut Crusted Chicken!
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