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Best Thai Green Curry Recipes!

Cook up a Restaurant-Quality Thai Green Curry at Home

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If you're in the mood for a good green curry, check out this selection of Thai green curry recipes - there's one to suit everyone's taste. Or learn to make Thai green curry paste from scratch - it's so much better than store-bought pastes, plus healthier and so much fresher-tasting. ENJOY!

1. Thai Green Curry Chicken

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This Thai Green Curry Chicken recipe features chunks of tender chicken simmered in a homemade green curry sauce along with healthy vegetables (zucchini and red bell pepper). The result is a gourmet-style Thai green curry that is very aromatic and beautiful to serve (great for entertaining!).

2. How to Make Thai Green Curry, Step by Step (with pictures)

Green Curry ChickenCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt
Thai Green Curry is the most famous of all Thai recipes. To learn how to make it, just follow the steps of this recipe, complete with photos that show you how to do everything from cutting up the lemongrass to making the green curry paste. ENJOY!

3. Special Thai Lime Leaf Green Curry

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This Thai spin on classic green curry recipe is exquisitely Thai in taste, flavor, and texture. Made with lime leaf as well as lime juice, the curry paste is extremely aromatic and dark green in color. It is similar to classic Thai green curry, but also slightly different owing to the prominant flavor of the lime leaves. Give this one a definite try!

4. Thai Green Coconut Curry

Thai Green CurryCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt, 03/04/10

For a Thai green coconut curry recipe that's Thai delicious, check out this homemade recipe.  This is a creamy Thai green curry without being too high in calories. Give it a try!

5. Thai Seafood Green Curry

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If you enjoy seafood, you'll love this sumptuous mixed seafood green curry. It's a healthy, one-pot gourmet delight that will impress your friends and family. Make it as the main course for your next potluck or dinner party!

6. Vegetarian Thai Green Curry with Tofu (Vegan/Gluten-free)

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An authentic Thai Green Curry Recipe for the vegetarian or vegan palate. All the authentic trimmings - lemongrass, coriander seeds, green chillies, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, coconut milk - without the meat, but with meat substitutes - wheat gluten or tofu, take your pick. This recipe is vegan, and you can also choose to make it gluten-free. ENJOY!

7. Vegetarian Thai Green Curry with Chickpeas (Vegan/Gluten-free)

Vegetarian Thai Green CurryCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt, 12/29/10, About.com Corp.

The reason this vegetarian/vegan curry tastes so amazing is because it's created entirely from scratch, yet it's very easy to make.  This recipe is also very flexible - use whatever vegetables you happen to have on hand, or those that are fresh and available where you live.  Any way you make it, this green curry simply sings with flavor!

8. Thai Green Curry Paste

Green Curry PasteCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt, 11/10/09
Thai green curry paste is surprisingly easy to make! Added to chicken or other meats, as well as seafood, noodles, vegetables, tofu, or wheat gluten, this paste will create sumptuous curries. Much better-tasting than store-bought curry pastes - and far healthier too!

9. Thai Green Curry Sauce

Thai Green Curry SauceCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt, 08/21/10

If you love Thai food, try making this Thai Green Curry Sauce. Although you can easily buy Thai green curry pastes and sauces in the stores these days, there is simply nothing like making your own from scratch. And it's remarkably easy to do too, especially if you have a food processor or blender. Just toss in all the ingredients, blitz well, and you have a flavorful Thai green curry sauce that's superb for making curries, noodles, grilled foods, soups and more. ENJOY! 

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