Thai Red Curry Paste

[redoubt]

Does anyone know where to find vegetarian thai red curry paste? Anything I saw here has fish/shrimp in it.

Thanks!
Keely.

[NASH]

I suggest making your own, just use an extra 1/4 tsp of salt in place of the shrimp paste. Also, you can use kaffir lime leaves instead of the zest, you can buy everything else at the one of the Asian markets in hfx. Possibly at Pete's too but his prices on things like lime leaves are infuckingsanedotcom.


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[Ruby]

I've been cooking a lot of Thai food lately, and one of the best places I've seen for authentic ingredients is Tian Phat grocery on the Bedford Highway. It's a treasure trove for anything Asian. They have kafir like leaves there. Frozen, but they still have that distinctive aroma.

Anyone have any idea where to find Kaffir limes?

[NASH]

Haven't found any yet so I'd sub with leaves. Tian Phat is great, couple of the others are pretty solid as well.

[bandarker]

I found some unique stuff at Heiwa Oriental Grocery near the rotary yesterday for a miso cod dish I'm going to try tonight

[redoubt]

Wicked, thanks fellas! Other than the ones Ruby and bandarker named, what are other good ones in the city for this sort of stuff?

Thanks!
Keely.

[jacinthebox]

I found some unique stuff at Heiwa Oriental Grocery near the rotary yesterday for a miso cod dish I'm going to try tonight

I shop here as well...awesome little shop...

[Ruby]

There's a fantastic Indian grocers on Robie Street. They have everything you need for a fantastic curry from scratch and they have mixes and pastes. Good selection of daal and pickles. There's also an Asian grocers at the very bottom of Queen Street just past Sobeys called Ca Hoa. Me and my wife used to shop there all the time when we lived in the city. I recently picked up a kilo bag of Red Thai Curry paste there. (Not vegetarian though, sorry!)

[redoubt]

(Not vegetarian though, sorry!)

Yeah, sometimes being a vegetarian is a pain in the ass!!

-Keely.

[benny44]

Hello,

Red curry paste gives your food tasteful. If you don't find vegetarian red curry paste anywhere you can easily make your homemade red curry paste without any difficulty without mixup of unwanted things.

[Kaden]

Ingredients
2 tsp each cumin and coriander seeds
4 red bird’s eye chillies, roughly chopped
1 tbsp paprika
3 lemongrass stalks, roughly chopped
4cm piece fresh galangal or ginger, chopped
6 fresh kaffir lime leaves or the finely grated zest of 1 lime
2 shallots, chopped
5 garlic cloves, chopped
Stalks from 80g bunch fresh coriander
2 tbsp each fish sauce and sunflower oil

Method
In a pestle and mortar, grind the cumin and coriander seeds to a powder. Transfer to a small food processor.
Add the remaining ingredients and whizz to a smooth, thick paste.

[oceanic_brew]

gotta say, hit up that asian market on Chebucto and got their red curry paste and dried kaffir leaves. Did a pretty simple insta pot recipe to try it out and it was a game changer. Excited to try the kaffir leaves in other recipes now.

[Beert]

gotta say, hit up that asian market on Chebucto and got their red curry paste and dried kaffir leaves. Did a pretty simple insta pot recipe to try it out and it was a game changer. Excited to try the kaffir leaves in other recipes now.

For something simple: a couple kaffir leaves with a couple cups of basmati rice in a rice cooker or streamer is pretty darned tastey. It would be good with Minute Rice too when added with the boiling water.