Sour Curry with Mixed Vegetables (Gaeng Som)

Ingredients

• Mixed veg (cabbage, long beans, green papaya, morning glory)
• 2 tbsp sour curry paste
• 200g fish/prawn
• tamarind juice
• fish sauce, sugar

Method

• Boil water, dissolve the sour curry paste, bring to a fragrant boil
• Add fish/prawn and cook through
• Add vegetables; season with tamarind, fish sauce and sugar for sour-spicy-salty
• Simmer until vegetables are just tender; turn off and serve

How to Choose

Choose fresh crisp vegetables, not wilted · fresh firm fish/clear prawns · fragrant sour tamarind pulp · fresh curry paste.

Chef's Secret

Secret: balance sour (tamarind), spicy (paste), salty (fish sauce) and a touch of sweet; add vegetables by cooking time firm ones first, leafy ones last.

Fresh mixed veg + fish/prawn + sour curry paste full set at Fresh Market Online.