Tuesday, 3 September 2013

Spicy Thai Beef

I found a Thai restaurant on Queen Street recently that had very good food and an amazing patio. Conor got a Spicy Thai Beef dish and it was SO good. I then wanted to learn how to recreate it so I looked for a few recipes. This was the best (looking) recipe I found, however I didn't follow it entirely.

Changes to the ingredients:

  • no green bell peppers - red and yellow only. 
  • extra garlic (approximately 3 cloves). 
  • lots more red curry paste (approximately 4-5 tablespoons).
  • an entire can of coconut milk
  • zest of an entire lime and juice of 2 limes. 
  • no bamboo shoot because I forgot to buy it.
  • Around 4 tablespoons of fish sauce. 
  • Green onions for a garnish. 
Changes to directions: 
  • Cooked the beef first. Then put to the side. 
  • Cooked the vegetables second. 
  • Added lime juice when lime zest was added.
That's about it! My family really enjoyed it, but I think I was too critical because of the spicy beef I'd had recently at the restaurant. I wanted the sauce to be thicker, sort of like the thai soup I made this summer. Maybe less of the coconut water and more of the thick part of the coconut. I'm not sure. A good start though! 

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