Thai green curry

[Garnele]

Here`s a great recipe on Thai green curry that
I wanted to share. It`s from a swedish site
about raw food (www.rawliving.se) and I have
done my best to translate the recipe to english...

3 mushrooms
4 fresh limeleaves (okay, I`m really unsure of the translating of this..but
I hope you understand what I mean...)
2 limefruits
6 tomatoes
2 cloves of garlic
2 cups fresh koriander
1 cm ginger
1 cm galangal
some lemongrass
2 red chili
4 dates
some spinach
1 green apple
1 tsk soya or tamari
400 ml coconut milk (The coconut milk isn`t 100% raw but you can exchange
it for the pulpflesh (?) and milk from 1 coconut.)

Chop into pieces and mix in a blender until smooth.
If u are using a cocnut then thin with 2,5 cups of water.

Eat with raw "rice" made of cauliflower mixed
mixed until grainy.

humm...This was not easy for me to translate...
If there is something you don`t understand then write
to me here on this thread and I will try to explain:)

[RawTruth]

Can you explain what "galangal" is?

[honeybee joy]

Looks yummy. I was also curious what the galangal? Do you have a pic?

[Garnele]

Ha-ha, I was hoping no one would ask me about that:)
Actaully that is the only ingredient in this recipe that I don`t know anything about. But I thought that it maybe where
som sort of spice that was difficult to get here in sweden.
I decides to include it in the recipe incase some of you knew what it was...:)

Anyway, when I make this I exclude the galangal,
and it still tastes terrific...

Sorry, for not being to any help:/

[RawTruth]

So ... with a mere 2 seconds of time, I found this on Galanga. It is a type of ginger, as it turns out. The article is very interesting to read, and perhaps it can be bought in an Asian market. If not, substituting regular ginger would probably be better than leaving it out.

http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ingredients/galanga.html

[kyrie]

Galangal is similar to ginger in appearance but much larger, and has a slightly different taste.IT's definitely not as hot as a good ginger root would be.

By the way I saw some time ago on a cooking show in Oz, that ginger blossom can be used raw for salads. Now if I only had a functional kitchen!!!!

Anyway that meal sounded yummy.

Carla.

[EastCoastie]

Also, it seems like the rice is supposed to be cauliflower mixed with something else (as noted on the recipe). Would you please let me know what that is? And how was the rice? My attempts at "raw" rice made out of parsnips and nuts just have not done it for me.

[Garnele]

No, Cauliflower was the only ingredient.

But it don`t taste like rice very much,
but my personal opinion is that rice has a very
neutral taste and so does the cauliflower.
So it`s pretty much there to fill out the plate:)

You can eat the Thai green curry without it,
if you want to.

[Garnele]

RawTruth,

thanks for the information.
I guess I should have looked the galangal up before
I posted the recipe.

In Falun it`s hard to get many of the raw ingredients
so I almost always leave out
the things I don`t have, and only
sometimes I replace them with something else.

Probably it would taste even better with it,
so if someone knew where to find it they could try it.

[moonstone523]

Just to clarify: This uses KAFFIR LIME LEAVES AND KAFFIR LIMES. Not your ordinary limes here!

:D

[moonstone523]

Oh, and I wouldn't replace galangal with giner in this recipe.

Two different flavors totally.

I live in upcountry Thailand. I have kaffir limes growing in my yard. YEAH! I'm just wondering what I'll do when I get back to America. Asian supermarket I guess. :confused:

[Misty*Mountain]

Oh, and I wouldn't replace galangal with giner in this recipe.

Two different flavors totally.

I live in upcountry Thailand. I have kaffir limes growing in my yard. YEAH! I'm just wondering what I'll do when I get back to America. Asian supermarket I guess. :confused:

Carolyn??? Is that you??

[Kris]

Galangal and dried kaffir lime leaves are easy to find in any Asian market or Chinatown. Most every store I've been to in Chinatown sells them both dried, but I've never found either of them fresh. Still, dried is better than leaving them out altogether! :D

[RawTruth]

I'm thinking that probably Sophia doesn't have Asian markets in Falun, Sweden.

And, Moonstone, would you suggest leaving the galangal and kaffir limes out entirely? Or just not bother making the recipe if we don't have these ingredients?

[Garnele]

Moonstone523,
I don`t think it have to be kaffir lime at all,
because it wasn`t in the original recipe and
I have allready used regular
lime and limegrass without any problems.

RawTruth,
As long as you add lime it doesnt mather if you
can find galangal or not.
As I said, I have allready tried this recipe.

[Garnele]

Oh, and I should probably also mention
that I`m not so eccurate with the measurments
in recipes. I go more by taste and what I have at home at the moment.

I pressed fresh limejuice and used fresh lemongrass from the supermarket.
I didn`have galangal or mushrooms at home so I ignored
that.

I don`t think it`s necessery to follow recipe instructions
exactly, I never do!