Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Shrimp coconut curry
Reduce the sauce before the shrimp go anywhere near it — they cook in two minutes and the coconut needs longer than they do.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Reduce the sauce before the shrimp go anywhere near it — they cook in two minutes and the coconut needs longer than they do.
What it needs
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- shrimp
- coconut milk
- ginger
- garlic
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: fish sauce.
Method
- Ginger and garlic softened first, then coconut milk brought to the barest simmer and reduced a few minutes.
- Reduce before the shrimp go in. They cook in two minutes and the sauce needs longer than they do.
- Shrimp in, heat low, pan pulled the moment they turn opaque and curl into a loose C.
- Fish sauce and lime off the heat. Both lose their character in a simmer and both are the point.
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Published minimums for what is in this
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- shrimp
- Cooks in about two minutes and is ruined in three.
- coconut milk
- Fat that carries chili and spice further than water can, with a sweetness underneath.
- ginger
- Bright and hot when raw, mellow and warm when cooked.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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