Thai Traditional Beef Panang Curry

Sawasdee Ka!

Today, I like to cook Thai traditional beef panang curry. With a budget under $20. I got one pack of chuck roast beef on sale about $8 from a supermarket. Coconut milk about $1.20 per can. For  curry paste, salt, sugar, and olive oil is accompanies. Let say this curry cost me about $15 and serving 4.

This dish should be a curry sauce absorb very well with the beef. The taste can be expected  medium salty, a little sweet, softness beef with aroma of kaffir lime leaves. It is very mild spicy. This curry is very simple and very easy to cook. You can cook all in one, by mixing it all together in one time, bring it to boil. Then lower the heat and simmer about 15-30 minute or until the beef is tender.  I will show you how I cook. This is the best way to cook panang curry.

Ingredients

5 lbs roast beef, trim and slice into bite size
3 tablespoons panang curry paste
2 tablespoons olive oil (optional)
4 tablespoons organic granulate sugar
1/2-1 tablespoons salt
1 can 19 fl oz (560 ml) coconut milk
5 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced

• Add 1 cup coconut milk in a pan over low heat, simmer until a fat separate. 
• Add 2 tablespoon olive oil , 3 tablespoons panang curry paste stir until fragrant about 2 -3 minutes.
• Add the beef in a pan over medium heat. 
• Stir in together until the beef cooked through, add salt and sugar to taste.
• Continue cooking add another cup of coconut milk into a pan, simmer over medium to low heat until the coconut milk reduce half. 
• Last, add the remaining of coconut milk into a pan, continue simmer to reduce the coconut milk sauce less than two of third, then add sliced of kaffir lime leaves mix well. Turn the heat off. Total time for cooking about 50 minute.
• Serve beef panang curry by topping with a little coconut milk garnish with  thin sliced of kaffir leave with steam Thai Jasmine rice.

Ultimate cooking

• You can add grounded peanut on top or sliced of red bell pepper for garnish. This recipe adapted by my sister restaurant which is very popular among her customer as well.
• Add red kidney bean canned for more protein. This recipe adapted by my own kitchen. All my family love it as well.
• Add sliced of zucchini for more vegetable. A friends of mine add it in her restaurant which is very popular among her customer. Let's get out of the box.