photo: marjorie o'brien
Prep time: 30 minutes
Total time: About 2 hours
Makes: about 5 servings
1 can coconut cream
1 can light coconut milk
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons red curry paste
1 tablespoon olive oil
4 pork steaks
1 tablespoon Splenda
3 medium carrots, peeled and sliced
1 cup cashews
In a heavy soup pot, heat the coconut cream and coconut milk until glistening and fragrent. Add 1/4 cup curry paste, mix well, and allow to simmer.
Rinse and dry pork steaks. Trim visible fat and slice thinly. Heat the olive oil in a heavy pan and stir fry the pork slices with 2 tablespoons of red curry paste until the pork is well coated and even seared. Add the pork mixture, carrots, Splenda, and cashews to the coconut curry mixture. Simmer covered for an hour and a half, stirring occasionally. Serve hot over brown rice.
This variation has only a passing resemblance to the original recipe for red beef curry, but it was quick, easy, tasty, and used what I had in stock.
Derived from "Real Thai, The Best of Thailand's Regional Cooking" by Nancie McDermott.