Thai Yellow Salmon Curry

Thai yellow curry, why not?  This is a fantastically quick meal to make once you've made the paste (see below.)

I love eating oily fish like Salmon, it makes me feel right from the inside somehow.


Thai Yellow Curry - Serves 1 (with leftover paste)

Ingredients

For the paste
1 stalk lemongrass
1-2 red chillis (seeds in or out, see below)
1 small onion
1 inch ginger
5 cloves garlic
1 tsp coriander seeds
pinch cumin seeds
3 tbsp fish sauce
1 tsp turmeric
Few grinds black pepper
1 tbsp sugar
Juice 1/2 lime
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 large tomato

For the curry (for one portion)
200ml, 7 fl oz Coconut milk
100g, 3oz Salmon
Large handful of vegetables, e.g. green beans, mange tout (snow peas)

Juice of 1/2 lime
Coriander (cilantro) to serve

Method

In a small food processor or with a stick blender, blend the paste ingredients together.  Use the seeds of the chillis if you like it spicy or even use three chillis.  Split into three portions and freeze two of them.

In a saucepan, put a third of the paste in a saucepan.  When it's bubbled a bit, add the coconut milk and bring to the boil.  Depending on the vegetable, you may need to add at this stage (green beans need longer to cook than mange tout, so add green beans for 2 mins then move on to add the salmon but don't add mange tout till you add the salmon.  You get the idea.)

Take the skin off the salmon and cut into bite sized chunks.  Put into the sauce, turn down to a simmer, cover and cook for 2 minutes without stirring.

Serve with a squidge of lime and coriander on top.  You can either serve this on it's own as a soupy curry or with rice for a full meal (you may find one portion serves two then).  Add some slices of chilli on top if you want a bit more kick.

I've only tried freezing the curry paste for a few days so far and it's worked well.  A month is probably the maximum.  Defrost in a fridge before using.  (Freezing curry pastes is a great use of those tiny baby weaning pots you might still have kicking around the house.  Just don't use them for that if you're still weaning, your baby might get a slight surprise!)
I've linked this up to fuss free living "extra veg" linky.