| Description | ||
| Curry Type | Vegetable | |
| Strength | Medium | |
| Difficulty | Moderate | |
| Source | narad@nudibranch.asd.sgi.com (Chuck Narad) | |
| Vegetarian | Yes | |
| Vegan | Yes | |
| Time to prepare | 40 mins | |
| Time to cook | Unspecified | |
| No. of servings | ||
| Ingredients | 2 chunks fresh wheat gluten, drained and cut into 1/2" cubes
1 can water chestnuts, sliced 1 can bamboo shoots (or a chunk of fresh), sliced 1 can straw mushrooms, drained, rinsed, and sliced 1 can golden button mushrooms, drained and rinsed 1 small handful Dried Black Fungus 1 cup fresh oyster mushrooms (or 1 can), sliced 1 can yellow Thai Curry Paste 1 bunch fresh basil 1 can coconut milk 1 stalk lemon grass, cut into 1" sections (optional) peanut or olive oil Thai sweet chili sauce (optional) 1 clove of garlic, minced (optional) cooking sake and your choice among: carrots broccoli onion zucchini cut into stir-fry size pieces. | |
| Instructions | Soak the black fungus in a bowl of warm water for about 20 minutes while prepping the vegetables. Marinate the gluten in thai sweet chili sauce (available in oriental markets as a chicken marinade), just enough to get all of the chunks wet; stir occasionally. Open, drain, and slice all of the canned ingredients; slice the fresh ones to stir-fry size.
Remove most of the stems from the basil, and chop the remainder of the basil medium-sized. Heat 1/4 cup of oil in a small pot; add the curry paste, and stir-fry it for a few minutes. Add the basil; stir until it wilts, then stir in the coconut milk and reduce the heat to low. Stir this occasionally while stir-frying. Drain and rinse the black fungus, and cut to strips if neccessary. Heat the wok, then add 1-2 Tbs oil; add the garlic (if desired), then stir-fry the gluten for a few minutes. Next, add each of the other ingredients, from heaviest to lightest, stiring each for a minute or two before adding the next. Every 2-3 ingredients, add a splash of sake to the wok for sweet steam. When the vegetables are almost ready, pour the curry sauce over them, and stir for a few minutes. Serve over basmati or calrose rice. Prep time: about 40 minutes, unless the rice takes longer. If you like hotter curries (3 or 4 star, as they say in thai restaurants) add a small amount of vietnamese tuong ot (garlic-chili paste) to the sauce before adding it to the wok. | |
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