Veggie Thai Curry with Chicken Thighs

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Veggie Chicken Thai Curry

Ingredients

  • 2 tblspn avocado oil
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 6 garlic cloves
  • 1 thumb-sized fresh ginger, match-sticked
  • 4 tblspn Thai curry paste (red or green is fine)
  • 4 tblspn fish sauce
  • 400ml can coconut milk
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 tblspn turmeric root and lemon grass paste (or sub ½ tsp turmeric with zest of ½ a lemon)
  • 2 chicken thighs, sliced (optional)
  • ⅓ cup smooth peanut butter
  • ¼ Napa cabbage (or any type, bok choy too)
  • 1 sweet potato, peeled and diced or 1 daikon radish to cut on carbs
  • 2 celery sticks, diced
  • ⅓ of a head of cauliflower flowerettes
  • 12 baby tomatoes
  • 2 small carrots, cut into medallions
  • ANY veggie alternatives you’d like to add
  • 2 diced chillies

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Naked Spring Roll Pork Stir Fry

I miss Spring Rolls. That wrapped crunchy goodness! Here’s a little recipe of what (probably) goes in them… and a little bit extra…without the roll.

Ingredients

  • 1 onion
  • 6 cloves of garlic
  • 2 tablespoons avocado oil
  • 1 lb/500g ground pork
  • ½ a cabbage, green or red
  • 2 red bell peppers
  • 1 carrot, grated
  • Contd.

NY White Sauce

I had never heard of this sauce before, and just recently saw a recipe for it. There were a few ingredients I did not like in the recipe so I switched out a few, added some and omitted the sugar and vinegar. Super quick and easy to make.

It was great served over the roasted veg I made for lunch yesterday. Pretty sure you could put it onto just about anything savoury.

Here it is served with roast shoulder of seasoned beef, eggplant with green chili and Adobo spice, yams with Ancho spice and delicata squash with freshly grated turmeric. My fingers are still saffron yellow, but absolutely worth it. I found the fresh turmeric at the Mexican Mercado market I love to go to, but tbh, I don’t go often enough!

Here are the treasures I found at the Mexican market last Sunday. The ginger is fantastic and I have plans for that chorizo sausage! The green salsa is delicious but very hot and the little fingers of turmeric are absolutely perfect.

I just mixed the NY white sauce up in the yogurt tub I had.

See recipe below!

Quick tip for zesting citrus.

I find leaving zesting for after I’ve juiced a lime or any citrus, the juicer makes a perfect holding device for the skin. I’m always grating myself when just holding the citrus in my hand. This is my go to default way to zest without scrapes.

Be sure to have a pint sized jar for storage. If you would like this runnier for pouring or drizzling, add more cream or buttermilk at the end.

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