Thai Massaman Chicken Curry
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A rich, mild, and highly aromatic Thai curry featuring tender chicken, soft potatoes, and a deeply flavorful homemade paste. This curry balances sweet, sour, and savory notes perfectly, finished with a crunchy peanut garnish.
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🍳 Cooking Flow
Dry toast whole spices and grind them with fresh paste ingredients to form a smooth paste. → Fry whole aromatics in oil, then cook the raw curry paste until fragrant. → Sear the chicken in the paste and gradually add coconut milk and tamarind paste. → Add potato chunks and simmer until tender and the sauce develops a deep color. → Adjust flavor with fish sauce and palm sugar, then garnish with peanuts and coriander.
Cooking Steps
Brief Cooking Order
Dry toast whole spices and grind them with fresh paste ingredients to form a smooth paste. → Fry whole aromatics in oil, then cook the raw curry paste until fragrant. → Sear the chicken in the paste and gradually add coconut milk and tamarind paste. → Add potato chunks and simmer until tender and the sauce develops a deep color. → Adjust flavor with fish sauce and palm sugar, then garnish with peanuts and coriander.
Introduction
A rich, mild, and highly aromatic Thai curry featuring tender chicken, soft potatoes, and a deeply flavorful homemade paste. This curry balances sweet, sour, and savory notes perfectly, finished with a crunchy peanut garnish.
Step 1
Dry toast the whole black peppercorns, cumin seeds, and coriander seeds in a pot over medium heat until fragrant. Transfer them to a pestle and mortar.
Step 2
Add chopped lemongrass, Thai shallots, garlic, soaked red chilies, galangal, and cardamom powder to the mortar. Pound everything together for about 10 minutes until a smooth paste is formed.
Step 3
Incorporate the shrimp paste into the pounded mixture and grind until completely blended.
Step 4
Heat vegetable oil in a pot. Add the bay leaves, cinnamon stick, and green cardamom pods, and toast for 30 seconds to a minute.
Step 5
Add the prepared curry paste to the pot. Fry over medium heat for 3 to 5 minutes to cook out the raw flavor.
Ingredients List
Important Notes
Pounding the paste by hand using a pestle and mortar releases natural oils and delivers a much richer flavor than a food processor.
Adding coconut milk in small stages helps separate the coconut fat, giving the curry a beautiful oily sheen on top.
Tamarind should be added early to let the sourness mellow out and integrate smoothly, rather than adding it at the very end.
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