Sawaddee ka welcome to hot thai kitchen so one of my most popular recipes on the show is a
massaman curry I made a video several years ago so it definitely needs a refresh but I also never
showed you how to make the actual curry paste from scratch yourself so this video is it right
here and also next episode I'm going to show you my new massaman curry recipe so definitely stay
tuned for that and I will be using this paste in the next video and for those of you who don't know
massaman curry is a Thai coconut curry that is rich in stewey and it's full full of spices and
everyone loves it I literally do not know anyone who does not love it so let's get started so
what's unique about muscleman curry is that it is full of dry spices and in Thai cuisine we don't
actually use dry spices that much in general so what I've got here is some coriander seeds which
I've toasted some cumin seeds which I've also posted some white peppercorn on the ground side
some cinnamon nutmeg some ground cardamom this is cloves and I've also got some salt and yes if
you've got whole versions of these and you want to just blitz it up and make the ground version
yourself you absolutely can this just happens to be sort of what I have in my pantry so I'm
going to grind these up you can definitely mortar and pestle it's just for the heck of it I'm going
to throw in all the already ground spices to just you know so they can mix with each other
yes I do feel that if I shake it it grinds better tada look at that nice and fine okay so what I'm
doing next is I'm going to grind my dried chilies in here as well if you're more than pestle in it
what you would do is soak these in water so it's soft so that you can grind by mortar and pestle
easier but if you're using machine keep it dry now massaman curry is not a particularly spicy curry
so you don't want to use the small Thai chilies or super spicy that's just not as character you
would normally use tied rice / chilies which are bigger and milder I can't find that here
but why I found a really great substitute which are these guajillo peppers which you can find at
Latin American stores they are much bigger than us virtually and I'm just adding a couple of you can
use Thai chilies but a couple of our bold chilies which you can also get as Latin American source
these are spicier so I'm just you know combining the two to get us the perfect spiciness that I
want so I'm just going to cut these and just get the seeds out oh it's no so good right now about
the slices under my nose here mmm oh oh my god that one has a lot of feet if you grind anything
by Machine grind the chilies because they are the hardest thing to dry in a mortar and pestle
put your head faraway you don't want to inhale back ok so that's done with all of the dry spices
now whenever I make curry paste on the show I've always stuck with my mortar and pestle
however I know that's not possible for everyone and also if you're making a lot it can be a lot
of work to do it by hand so I want to introduce you to a tool that is my favorite for making
curry paste and that is the stick blender also known as an immersion blender it's very useful
in general and this is my favorite model it's very powerful and works perfectly if you want to know
more about this particular model I'll put the link down below it's listed in my kit the thing
about using this is it works well even with small amounts and it also works well without having to
add any liquid if you've made curry paste with a regular blender jug blender you know that it
needs more liquid to blend and food processors in general just don't grind it as fine as it
needs to be for a Thai curry ok I'm going to add to this some shallots that I've chopped and I'm
also going to add some chopped lemongrass going in there some garlic and everything that I have
added so far is classic standard in any sort of a curry coconut curry paste not coconut curry paste
curry paste for coconut curry you know so and then the other two ingredients some of you may
not be familiar cilantro roots if you cannot find it the stems will be fine I just want to chop it
a little bit it is mushy because it was frozen these rings are galangal which I've also bought
and it's really hard so I like to just chop it down into smaller pieces before I throw it into
the blender just to help it out a little bit they do sell drag along though they do sell powder even
galangal paste I've seen which you can actually use in this application and now of course we're
making a Thai curry paste we're going to put in some shrimp paste the shrimp paste is in a
lot of Thai curries yes you are vegetarian and you want to leave it out you can you can add me so if
you happen to have it if not don't worry you can just leave it out okay and shrimp age basically
fermented krill and it smells really funky but it adds a lot of umami and almost body to the
curry at the end of the day you only need a little bit and don't open that jar any longer than you
need to because it will stink up your place like shrimp paste that's it that's all there is to it
so now I'm going to first of all close this tub so it doesn't consume continue to perfume Adams
apartment and you see see how there's not a lot of liquid but with a stick blender you can just
kind of jam the blade in and kind of force it to work and then the moisture from the onion will
start to come out and making everything a little easier to blend I better head home hide rice but
to see maybe how quick that is and then every once in a while you can just go in and give it
a flip and a scrape because sometimes you know there's a piece of onion stuck at the bottom or
whatever so you can take care of that and that's it it's done how easy was that I mean apart from
the tearing up that I was experiencing this is a shallot it was a breeze ah that smells amazing
look at this stuff now I should add also that this is a very powerful immersion blender compared to
other models if you've got one that it might not blend as well I've never tried it with one that's
weaker power but if you already have one give it a shot and see how it works okay and also if
you want to make soup or sauces you can stick this right into a pot and that's what I love it I love
it for all of you making a smoothie you just stick it right into the cup you're drinking from really
convenient for that as well does that not look like a professional curry paste or what the recipe
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