This recipe had instructions for making my own Thai paste, but it also suggested that cheating and buying Thai paste was also acceptable. I decided to cheat a bit, mostly because I was hungry. I couldn't find any green paste (Blue Dragon's is not vegetarian as it turns out) so I got yellow paste, and I think its done a fair job.
So skipping the first paragraph of instructions, I started by sautéing the red onion whilst chopping the broccoli into smaller florets. I used a regular broccoli because I already had one in. So the title of this post is not accurate. But I'm not sure it alters the taste that much, and that's all that matters.
I threw in a few mushrooms and some courgette into the frying pan also because they needed using up. Once the onions were transparent I added the Thai yellow curry paste and fried for another couple of minutes.
Next went in a teaspoon of sugar and salt and the coconut milk, bringing this to the boil and leaving to simmer. Meanwhile the rice noodles were heated up in boiling water - I think I left these too long as they were a little stodgy, but nothing I couldn't get over.
The noodles and broccoli were rinsed and then tossed with some toasted sesame oil and some lemon juice. The noodles were divided into a few portions and the Thai sauce was served on top. I got a little excited and forgot to take a picture when it was finished, so here's half way through my lunch!
This was actually really delicious and filling and quite easy to make using the paste cheat.
Looks very nice. I would like to try tbat
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