An easy pantry curry from about.com's thaifood subsite, for when you don't have a good curry paste on hand.. The entire page is a nice fish curry recipe, but you can make just the curry sauce portion, to use as you like.
How easy? How pantry? Here's the ingredients I used tonight:
not pantry, but often in my house anyhow:
fresh cilantro
fresh basil
fresh ginger
garlic in cloves
green onions
pantry
can coconut milk
fish sauce
chili powder (yeah, like you make chili with)
ground cumin
brown sugar
turmeric
cayenne
I dropped without substitution:
ground coriander
shrimp paste
See Fish Curry Recipe for amounts and real directions
I'm pretty excited, because I don't have a brand of curry paste I'm excited about these days, it uses ingredients I'd stock for various dishes. And this falls somewhere between curry paste and mortar/pestle in effort.
Why a curry sauce? Over rice with a bell pepper, mushrooms, tomato, and potato it's a fabulous meal. Add tofu if you like, or fish, or cashews or peanuts.
