Thai Massaman Curry with veggies & Tofu

Thai Massaman Curry with veggies & Tofu

A typical Thai curry base, but this time with Northern Thai massaman curry spices. Added in are more earthy vegetables, plus more familiar ones, with pan fried tofu, the addition of fresh lemon grass, fresh ginger, vegan fish sauce and palm sugar, plus the obligatory coconut milk and some mock meats.

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Prep Time 40

Cook Time 20

Course Main Course

Cuisine Asian, Thai

Servings people

Ingredients

2 whole medium onions
4 cloves garlic sliced
40 g fresh ginger
2 sticks Celery
1 whole medium courgettes
2 whole medium peppers – 1 green & 1 red
2 whole medium carrots
8 whole baby corn
2 whole green finger chillies.
2 whole sticks of lemon grass
2 teasps level of veg stock
2 whole veg stock cubes
50 g of coconut cream 2 ice cubes worth
400 g can of coconut milk
10 whole Mange tout. optional
300 g of white mushrooms
400 g firm tofu
200 g mock chicken/duck
200 g Massaman Curry paste Thai Taste or Maesri
1 tbsp Soy sauce
3 teasps vegan fish sauce
3 teasps flat - palm sugar. so 4 may be 2 much – try it and check next time.
30 g of coriander

Instructions

Slice the onions top to bottom
begin to sauté on a low heat in a tablespoon of coconut oil
Peel and slice the garlic, and add
Chop the ginger finely and add
Chop the celery in 1cm pieces and add
add in the chillies
When all is nice and soft, add the Thai massaman curry paste
Stir well to distribute.
add in the baby corn - it's not particularly critical when
Add in the coconut milk, and creamed coconut or coconut cream
add in the lemon grass sliced in half and chopped in thirds.
Add around 400ml of water, the palm sugar, vegan fish sauce, stock powder, stock cubes, garlic & onion powder.
While you’re doing this, carry on preparing the other veggies – washing, paring etc and chopping into roughly 2cm sized pieces. Saute in a separate pan or the actifry.
Pan or Actifry all the veggies. I find the carrots and potatoes work well together in the Actifry – around 12 minutes, ditto the peppers and courgettes around 10 minutes.
If you put the rice on 25 minutes before you think the curry dish will be finished, they should be ready together!
Also cut up the tofu into 1 to 2 cm sized pieces and Actifry or pan fry with chilli sauce and some soya sauce.
Also Actifry or pan fry the chicken substitute if you are using that.
Put the veggies to one side in a bowl, and when the tofu and vegan chicken is done, you can add it to the pan – veggies first, then quickly followed by the tofu & “chicken”.
then quickly followed by the tofu & “chicken”.
It then needs around 10 minutes or so longer in the sauce to complete the cooking.