Prawn massaman curry
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 30 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2If you're a fan of Thai green curry, try a massaman for a change - the potatoes soak up loads of flavour
Nutrition and extra info
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 485
- protein
- 23.2g
- carbs
- 21g
- fat
- 34.9g
- saturates
- 28.2g
- fibre
- 0.8g
- sugar
- -
- salt
- 2.85g
Ingredients
- 1-2 tbsp massaman curry paste (look for Bart or Blue Elephant in the spice aisle)
- 1 x 400g tin coconut milk
- 150g small new potatoes, halved or quartered if large
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 2 cardamom pods, squashed
- 200g raw king prawns (frozen are fine)
- 1 tsp brown sugar
- 2 limes, 1 juiced, 1 quartered, to serve
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp peanut, toasted and chopped (optional)
- sliced red chilli, to serve
- shredded basil, to serve
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Method
- Cook the massaman paste in the thick bit of the coconut milk for a few minutes until it becomes fragrant. Add the rest of the coconut milk and simmer for a minute. Add the potatoes, cinnamon, cardamom and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the potatoes are tender. Add the prawns, sugar, lime and fish sauce, and cook for 3-4 minutes until the prawns are just cooked and pink.
- Serve the curry sprinkled with peanuts (if using), chilli and basil.
Recipe from olive magazine, April 2010
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I didn't have the shop-bought curry paste but followed another recipe to make my own: http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaicurrypasterecipes/r/greencurrypaste.htm -- It was really quick and easy to do, and you don't need anything special - maybe Thai fish sauce but this is inexpensive and lasts forever - to make a batch up. I thought the overall recipe was good and very quick to put together so would make it again definitely.
we pared boiled the pots for 8 mins and then sliced them...it worked a treat. We used noodles and added at the end...noodles cooked first by the way. We really rated this recipe and think you should try it. Its easy, tasty and a really lush. Defo gets the taste buds racing and racing even more. Try it.
I made my own massaman curry paste, cut the potatoes in quarters so they cooked, substituted the brown sugar for palm sugar, I added a teaspoon of tamarind paste too & also added the sugar & fish sauce at the same time as the potatoes & left it all to simmer for about 30 mins. I served it with thai sticky rice, was yummy!
My husband made this last night and it was absolutely delicious. The sauce was not too runny probably because the potatoes took so long to cook and it had reduced. I would recommend partially cooking the potatoes before adding to the sauce. Will definitely make this again and try with both beef and chicken. I got Massaman paste in Tesco (own brand but they spell it Masaman).
Reading the previous comments I par-boiled the potatoes and added green beans, we did enjoy it, but the lime spoiled it! We used tesco's massaman paste which tasted beautiful but every ingredient I added then spoilt the original flavour a bit more... I think I could write a recipe for good food, I would buy a jar of paste then print out the instructions on the label! :-P I would like a recipe for massaman paste, then I would make loads and freeze it.
Lovely!!! My other half has officially rated this as one of his top meals - which is quite an achievement. This was truly delicious and I'll be adapting the base to fit various ingrediants; cauliflower, butternut squash etc. The slightest change i would make would be to use sweet potatoes for a "slightly" healthier version.
Some people have mentioned it was runny or there was too much suace but this wasn't the case for me. I simmered the potatoes really gently for longer which may have thickened it up a bit.
A friend from thailand gave me this recipe last year, I've made it with chicken too, or a combination of chicken and prawn. I always cook it when I have friends coming over, as its so easy to make and doesn't require me to slave over the stove too much :) Everyone's always saying how delicious it is and asking for the recipe!