Easy Thai Red Curry Shrimp Recipes

THAI SHRIMP CURRY

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook, stirring frequently, until soft, about 3 minutes. If the onions start to brown, reduce the heat to medium. Add the scallions, garlic, and green curry paste, and cook, stirring frequently, for 2 minutes more. Add the coconut milk, water, fish sauce, and sugar and bring to a gentle boil. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring frequently, until the shrimp are pink and just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in the lime juice and sprinkle with the cilantro (or basil). Taste and adjust seasoning, if necessary, and serve with jasmine rice.
• Note: For the shrimp, I recommend buying frozen shrimp labeled "shell split and deveined." Most shrimp are cleaned and flash frozen shortly after being caught, so the "fresh" shrimp you see in the seafood case at the supermarket are typically thawed frozen shrimp. Who knows how long they've been sitting there, so you're better off buying frozen shrimp and defrosting it yourself. Come dinnertime, all you have to do is run the shrimp under water to defrost, and then peel.

EASY THAI RED CURRY SHRIMP

Steps:

• Heat up cooking oil in a wok or large pan.
• Saute onion and garlic over medium heat.
• As soon as the onion starts to turn translucent, add red curry paste. Saute the paste for a few seconds.
• Add coconut milk and stir well. Allow the curry to simmer but stir occasionally to keep it from burning. It will start to thicken up quickly.
• As soon as the ingredients are well combined, add the shrimp.
• Keep stirring and allow the shrimp to cook in the curry sauce. Allow it to boil gently. The shrimp will start to curl up as they cook.
• When all of the shrimp are cooked, add sugar, fish sauce and half of the kaffir lime leaves.
• Give it a good stir, then transfer to a serving bowl.
• Garnish with the rest of the lime leaf strips and red chili strips.
• Serve with steamed rice or with your favorite pasta.
• Enjoy!

THAI SHRIMP CURRY

Steps:

• In a large wok or saute pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, bell peppers, carrots, and garlic, and stir-fry until soft, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the curry paste and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Stirring, add the fish sauce and sugar, then the coconut milk and bring to a boil. Simmer until thickened slightly, about 2 minutes. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring, until pink and just cooked through, about 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the basil and cilantro.
• Serve over jasmine rice, garnished with cilantro sprigs.
• In a large wok or saute pan, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add the shallots, bell peppers, carrots, and garlic, and stir-fry until soft, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the curry paste and cook, stirring, until fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute. Stirring, add the fish sauce and sugar, then the coconut milk and bring to a boil. Simmer until thickened slightly, about 2 minutes. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring, until pink and just cooked through, about 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and stir in the basil and cilantro.
• Serve over jasmine rice, garnished with cilantro sprigs.
• In a skillet, dry roast the coriander and peppercorns over low heat until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Remove and let cool. Grind in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
• Return the pan to medium heat. Add the shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, until starting to brown, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Drain the chiles, reserving the liquid, and roughly chop.
• In a blender or food processor, combine all the ingredients with about 1/4 cup of the reserved soaking liquid. Process to make a smooth paste, scraping down the sides several times and adding more liquid through the top 1 tablespoon at a time with the motor running.
• Transfer to an airtight container and keep refrigerated until ready to use. Paste will keep refrigerated for up to 1 month.
• In a skillet, dry roast the coriander and peppercorns over low heat until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Remove and let cool. Grind in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle.
• Return the pan to medium heat. Add the shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, until starting to brown, about 3 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.
• Drain the chiles, reserving the liquid, and roughly chop.
• In a blender or food processor, combine all the ingredients with about 1/4 cup of the reserved soaking liquid. Process to make a smooth paste, scraping down the sides several times and adding more liquid through the top 1 tablespoon at a time with the motor running.
• Transfer to an airtight container and keep refrigerated until ready to use. Paste will keep refrigerated for up to 1 month.

THAI RED CURRY SHRIMP WITH JASMINE RICE AND SNOW PEAS

Steps:

• Before You Cook If using any fresh produce, thoroughly rinse and pat dry Cooking Guidelines To ensure food safety, the FDA recommends the following as minimum internal cooking temperatures: Steak and Pork 145° F (rest cooked meat, 3 minutes) | Seafood 145° F | Chicken 165° F | Ground Beef 160° F | Ground Turkey 165° F | Ground Pork 160° F 1 Cook the Rice Bring a small pot with 1 1/2 cups water and jasmine rice to a boil. Reduce heat to low, cover, and cook 20 minutes, or until tender. Set aside and keep warm. While rice is cooking, start preparing ingredients. 2 Prepare the Ingredients Quarter lime. Stem, seed, and thinly slice red bell pepper into thin strips. Mince garlic. Stem and coarsely chop cilantro (reserve a few leaves for garnish). Pull any strings from snow peas. Rinse shrimp, pat dry, and season both sides with a pinch of salt and pepper. 3 Sear the Shrimp Place a medium non-stick pan over medium-high heat and add 1 tsp. sesame oil (reserve remaining for curry). Add shrimp to hot pan and cook 2 minutes, or until browned. Transfer shrimp to a plate. (Shrimp will finish cooking in a later step.) Wipe pan clean and reserve. 4 Start the Curry Return pan used to sear shrimp to medium-high heat. Add remaining sesame oil, garlic, snow peas, and red bell pepper and cook 2 minutes. Add coconut milk, half the red curry paste, and fish sauce (to taste). Taste, and add more red curry paste if desired. Stir thoroughly, ensuring curry paste is fully incorporated. Bring to a boil. 5 Finish the Curry Once boiling, return shrimp to pan along with chopped cilantro and a pinch of salt and pepper. Reduce to a simmer and cook 5 minutes, or until sauce is slightly thickened and shrimp reaches a minimum internal temperature of 145 degrees. 6 Plate the Dish Place rice in a shallow dish or bowl and ladle curry around rice. Garnish with a squeeze of fresh lime juice, lime quarters, and reserved whole cilantro leaves.

THAI RED CURRY WITH SHRIMP

Steps:

• Begin by cooking the rice. You can either cook it in an Instant Pot (1 cup rice with 1 cup water and a pinch of salt) for 5 minutes with a 10-minute natural release OR use my recipe for Never Fail Thai Coconut Rice, cooked on the stovetop. (link to recipe in Notes, below.)
• Peel and devein the shrimp or prawns. You can leave the tails on (they add flavour) or remove them first, your choice.
• Toss the shrimp with 2 teaspoons olive oil, minced garlic and red chili flakes. Set aside.
• Make the Thai red curry sauce. Combine the coconut milk with the fish sauce, curry paste, ginger, sugar, and lime juice. Set aside.
• Heat 2 teaspoons oil in a skillet over medium heat. Sauté diced onions and bell peppers until softened but not browned, about 5 - 7 minutes. Remove to a bowl.
• Add 2 teaspoons oil to the skillet. Cook shrimp (prawns) for a minute or two on each side, just until no longer translucent. Remove to a separate bowl.
• Transfer the onions and peppers back to the skillet and add the coconut curry sauce mixture. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until reduced by half.
• Add the shrimp back into the skillet. Stir in half the cilantro and basil leaves.
• Serve over jasmine rice. Garnish with the remaining cilantro, basil and sliced green onion.

RED CURRY SHRIMP

Steps:

• Bring coconut mill to simmer in large skillet over medium heat.
• Stir in curry paste and sugar until disolved, bring to boil.
• Reduce to low heat, simmer 5 minutes.
• Add shripm and veggies, cook 3-5 minutes or until shrimp turns pink and veggies are tender-crisp.
• Stir in basil (optional) and fish sauce.
• Serve with Jasmine rice.

THAI-INSPIRED RED CURRY SHRIMP

Steps:

• Heat oil in a wok or skillet over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Add garlic and ginger and saute for 30 seconds. Add onion and heat until softened, about 2 minutes. Add carrots and red pepper and saute until softened, about 7 minutes.
• Pour in coconut milk, soy sauce, and curry paste; stir until curry paste and coconut milk are well blended. Stir in shrimp. Lower the heat and simmer until the shrimp are bright pink on the outside and the meat is opaque, 3 to 4 minutes.