Being back to reality is hard. Which is silly because I really like my reality. But going back to day-to-day activities seem so tedious when every day last week was started out on the beach with a cocktail in hand. Ew, listen to me. Stop complaining, Juli. You’re the worst.
You know what isn’t the worst? This curry. If you haven’t been on my blog very much, I’ll fill you in on a little tidbit about me: I LOVE curry. Not just kind of or yeahcurryiscool kind of love. No. I want it for my last meal. But the thing is, not all curry reigns the same. Is that how the saying goes? Whatever. There are all sorts of restaurants out there that have curry (many of which are thickened with flour…WTF?!) and some that just aren’t properly flavored. I’ve never been to Thailand so I can’t speak from experience, but I’ve eaten Tom Kha Gai at Departure in Portland and chowed down on duck red curry at Lotus of Siam in Vegas and both absolutely blew me away and just ignited my love for curry even more. Even though I’ve made curry in the past, it just never was exactly what I wanted it to be…until now. This curry has so much flavor, so much depth, and so much absolute perfection. I’m serious, I love this curry so freaking much and wish I could eat it every day. It’s my birthday on Friday and I have dinner planned at a Thai restaurant already. All I’ve asked Brian for months now is to take me to curry for my birthday. But he’s also taking me for gluten free pancakes at Snooze for breakfast. Fudge, I love that man so much! He knows the key to my heart!
I’m about to turn 28 years old this year and I’m pumped about it! 27 was such a great year with being engaged, getting married, releasing my third cookbook and buying our first home! So much cool stuff happened and I don’t want that to end. I asked one of my friends the other day what he would have done if he wouldn’t have had kids right away when he got married. And he said travel. So that’s what we have planned. We want to landscape our backyard (since we still have a whole in the cement after our sewer line fiasco and most of our grass is just dirt now) so we can get a hot tub at some point and enjoy winter more. But then we are ready to travel! First, I think we are going to hit up the Keys. Then Costa Rica since I loved it so much and want my favorite guy to experience it too. Have you ever been to the Keys? Any recommendations? What’s the difference between the Keys & Key West? Let’s start planning this vacation together!!
Shrimp Thai Green Curry
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Ingredients
For the marinade
- 1 pound shrimp, deveined and peeled
- juice of 1/2 lime
- 1/2 teaspoon grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- pinch of salt
For the curry
- 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 orange bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- 3 tablespoons ghee
- 2 tablespoons green curry paste
- 2 (14 ounce) cans full fat coconut milk
- 2 heaping tablespoons almond butter
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 3 teaspoons fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon grated ginger
- juice of 2 limes (about 4–5 tablespoons)
- 5–6 lime leaves, rolled between your fingers to release the fragrance
- 1 lemon grass stalk, cut in half lengthwise
- 2 red jalapeno peppers, thinly sliced (remove seeds for less spice)
- 3 large basil leaves, thinly sliced
- handful of cilantro, roughly chopped
- 1/3 cup cashews, roughly chopped
Instructions
- Place shrimp, lime juice, ginger, red pepper flakes and fresh salt in a bow, mix and set aside.
- Slice pepper, onion, and garlic while the shrimp marinates. Place 2 tablespoons of ghee in a large high rimmed pan. Once hot, add all the veggies to the pan and cook for 6-7 minutes, until onion is translucent and peppers are soft. Remove from pan and set aside.
- Add 1 more tablespoon of ghee to the pan. Once hot, place shrimp in pan to cook on each side for 1-2 minutes, then remove and set aside. (I did this in 2 batches to make sure the shrimp got a perfect color and crust on it, making sure the temperature of the pan doesn’t drop too much).
- Once shrimp has been removed, add green curry paste and whisk around. After about 30 seconds of whisking, add coconut milk, almond butter, honey, fish sauce, ginger, lime juice, kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass. Whisk together to combine. Let simmer for 5 minutes then add the pepper/onion mixture back to the pan along with thinly sliced red jalapeños. Simmer for another 5 minutes. When there are 2 minutes left, add in shrimp to heat through. Once it’s done cooking, add basil, cilantro, and cashews.
- Before serving, removing lime leaves and lemon grass!
- Garnish with extra cilantro!
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Happy early birthday! Mine is tomorrow and I’m turning 28 too! And also asking my husband to take me to snooze for my bday tomorrow 🙂
twinning!!
Hey Juli, love your blog and look forward to your posts every morning!!! I moved from the midwest and now live north (about five hours) of the Keys in Vero Beach. We have stopped in Key Largo and stayed in Islamorada several times. Robbie’s in Islamorada is a must for breakfast but not sure on gluten free options! If you decide to fly into Key West just be sure to go to some of the local places that are off of Duval street. When we first went it was a day trip, very touristy and HOTTT/HUMID as ballz so I would recommend going between October-Aprilish because people watching (they have great parades), outdoor bars, and walking around is the best part! Definitely check out Kino Sandal company, they make unique super cheap leather sandals while you wait that last forever. The beaches are a little disappointing, NOTHING compared to Jamaica haha.
Travel, travel, travel! I got married when I was 27 and we started having kids when I was 30. We traveled a lot and it was totally awesome!!! Having kids is totally awesome too though, they bring you more joy than you ever thought could be possible!!
I wanna make this!!! I count macros because I otherwise eat too much…. What happens if you don’t use full fat coconut milk?
then its not curry…
I just can’t eat very much fat and I still want to make this recipe. boo 🙁
This looks awesome!!! So excited to make it. How much onion goes into the recipe? I didn’t see it on the ingredients but it shows up in the instructions.
sorry about that, all fixed now! i wrote this recipe right before i left for our wedding so my brain was somewhere else lol.
The Keys are beautiful! The crazy thing is that everyone thinks Key West is where it’s at but that’s not even the most beautiful island (just the most popular)! If you fly into Miami and rent a car you’ll have the most beautiful drive of your life as you head down! So many cute bed and breakfasts. And gorgeous sunset cruises. Big Pine Key is gorgeous and close to Key West. And you can’t miss a good Duval Crawl and Mallory Square. You guys will love it as newlyweds!
Key west is amazing. Went there on a Disney cruise!.. I hear there is a good bed and breakfast not sure which island but it’s called The Southernmost Point.. I would love to go back… Key west was a big bar place!
OK, this curry is effing amazing. I live in Mexico and there was no green curry paste at the only store in town that has that kind of stuff, but just so you know – it is fabulous with red curry paste. I noticed that onions got left off the ingredient list as I was making this, so I halved mine and sliced it. Don’ know if you were intending it to be that way, but it worked great. I also doubled the shrimp because my husband and son routinely eat every freaking bit of whatever I make, and dishes that I thought would get everybody through lunch the next day are left as only dregs after dinner. Even with doing that, there’s enough for only one lunch (it will probably not be mine).
Thanks for another amazing recipe, and congrats on your beautiful wedding! You looked amazing and your dress was gorgeous!!!
yayyyyyy so glad you already made it and loved it as much as I did!!!!
Hi, Juli – I’m making this right now and noticed that there are multiple steps that refer to onion, but there is no onion listed in the ingredients. Should there be? Thanks!
sorry about that, all fixed now! i wrote this recipe right before i left for our wedding so my brain was somewhere else lol.
I think you said it was awkward when an adult calls their mom ‘mommy’ – but you just asked the difference between the Keys and Key West. So I always kinda chuckle to myself because you’re just pretend adulting too. No shade. Me and my 9-year-old are headed to Japan next week. We’ve traveled throughout Spain, Italy, Croatia, Finland, France, DR, Aruba, Grand Turk, and road tripped through about 17 U.S. states. Definitely not an advertisement to have kids, but I don’t think life stops when you do.
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