Three-Color Massaman Curry
Ingredients:
- Namjai Massaman Curry Paste — 1 tub
- Coconut milk — 1 can (250 ml)
- Kaffir lime leaves — 1 sprig
- Purple, yellow and white sweet potato — to taste
- Palm sugar — 1 tbsp
- Fish sauce — 1 tbsp
Method: Bring half a can of coconut milk to a boil, add the Massaman curry paste and fry until fragrant, add the potatoes and stir to coat, then add the rest of the coconut milk and simmer until the potatoes are cooked through and the sauce thickens.
Salt-Cut Tom Yum Fried Rice with Crispy Pork
Ingredients:
- Namjai Sour Curry Paste — 1 tbsp
- Crispy pork belly — 250 g
- Salt (reduced) — to taste
- Herbs (galangal, chili, lemongrass — to taste)
- Cooked rice — 1 bowl
- Palm sugar — 1 tbsp
- Basil, chili — to garnish
Method: Fry the crispy pork lightly to release oil, add herbs to make it fragrant, add the sour curry paste and stir-fry with the rice, season with a touch of sugar, then finish with basil and fresh chili — done in minutes!
Four Crispy Textures Salad
Four crispy things go into this salad — Namjai’s answer for the “crunch” cravings.
Ingredients: four crispy items of your choice (e.g. fried shallots, crispy pork rind, crispy wonton, cracker/rice puff).
Kimchi Fried Rice with Sour Curry, Salted Egg
Ingredients:
- Namjai Sour Curry Paste — 1 tbsp
- Oil — 1 tbsp
- Kimchi — 2 tbsp
- Cooked rice — 1 bowl
- Fried noodles — as garnish
Salted egg dressing:
- Egg — 1
- Butter — 1 spoon
- Oil — 2 tbsp
Method: Fry the curry paste with oil until fragrant, add kimchi and fry briefly, add rice and stir-fry until combined, top with a salted-egg-butter sauce and fried noodles for crunch.
3-Flavor Rice Balls (Onigiri)
Ingredients:
- Lime juice — 1 tbsp
- Chopped garlic — 1 1/2 tbsp
- Chopped bird’s eye chili — to taste
- Nori seaweed sheets (for wrapping rice balls) — as needed
Method: Cook a small pot of rice, season, shape into balls, wrap in nori and serve with a spicy lime-tamarind dip.
How to Choose the Right Chili for an Unforgettably Spicy Dish
When it comes to chilies, besides adding flavor and medicinal properties, they also boost a dish’s taste to make it hotter and more delicious. Choose the right type of chili and your food is guaranteed to be a hundred-percent spicy hit.
Bird’s eye chili
Small but mighty — with its fierce heat and aroma, this little one is perfect for chili pastes like mackerel shrimp paste dip, or stir-fried with garlic, minced pork, and shrimp over hot rice. Or the simple route: slice it thin into fish-sauce-with-chili, which makes anything taste better.
Karen chili
Small but very hot, and known for its distinctly strong aroma. Popularly ground into chili powder or a tangy noodle-soup seasoning, or used in dipping sauces like chili sauce or sukiyaki dip. Try it fresh alongside sago-pork dumplings, or pound it with garlic for a dry stir-fried holy basil dish over rice topped with a fried egg.
Jinda chili
Works in practically every dish — boiled, stir-fried, curried, or fried — because it isn’t overpoweringly pungent, has just the right amount of heat, and gives red curries their color. Consider it the household staple chili: pound it into red curry paste or other hot curries, or dry it, slit and remove the stem, then toss with sesame and deep-fry for a snack you can’t stop eating.
Spur chili (Prik Chi Fah)
No pickled chili relish or aachaad is complete without green or red spur chili. It’s large, slender, and long, but not too hot, so it works well as a side to any dish. If you love its distinctive fragrance, choose the green ones for cooking — great pounded into Thai green curry paste, or in a fusion stir-fried drunken noodle with snakeskin gourami that’s so good you’ll ask for seconds.
Yellow chili
Also called yellow spur chili, with a more pronounced fragrance and more heat than the green or red varieties. Think of stir-fried crab with yellow chili — imagine firm crab meat stir-fried with garlic and pounded yellow chili, or poured over hot rice with stir-fried bamboo shoots and chicken innards. Remember to slit the chili and remove the dark seeds before cooking for a beautiful amber-orange, appetizing dish.
Just choose the right chili and your food is already delicious — the same way Namjai Curry Paste brings home-kitchen deliciousness by choosing the right chili for every curry paste, giving each one its own unmistakable, satisfying flavor. Definitely worth keeping at home.
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Green Curry with Grilled Beef
We’re sharing another crowd-pleaser! A Thai green curry recipe with grilled beef — delicious, fragrant, and easy enough for a first-time cook.
Ingredients (serves 2):
- Namjai Green Curry Paste — 1 tub
- Beef — 300 g
- Coconut milk — 1 cup
- Kaffir lime leaves — 4
- Pea eggplants — 30 g
- Red spur chilies — 2
- Thai basil — 5 leaves
- Galangal — 30 g
- Fish sauce, sugar — to taste
Method:
- Slice and clean the beef; boil until tender, then cut into bite-size pieces.
- Prepare the rest: slice galangal, chilies, and kaffir lime leaves into thin strips; have the basil ready.
- Heat a little coconut cream in a pan, fry the Namjai Green Curry Paste until fragrant and the color deepens.
- Add the beef and stir until well coated with the curry paste.
- Add the pea eggplants and remaining coconut milk, stir to combine.
- Add kaffir lime leaves and basil, then turn off the heat.
The Benefits of Chili
Many people have heard that Thai curry is a healthy food, because many of the ingredients in curry paste have medicinal properties — making Thai curry a nourishing dish worth having at every meal. Today let’s look at “chili,” the main ingredient found in every curry paste recipe, and what benefits it actually offers.
- Chilies contain antioxidants that help slow aging
- They help boost mood by encouraging the body to produce endorphins (the “happy” hormone)
- They help strengthen the immune system
- They contain vitamin C, which supports collagen production in the body
- They help nourish and protect eyesight
- They help stimulate appetite
- Capsaicin helps energize the body
- They support the body’s detox process
- They help relieve cold symptoms, runny nose, and phlegm
- They help relieve coughing
On top of that, chilies make food look more appetizing, and their heat stimulates the taste buds, making every meal even more delicious. Now that you know all this, go grab some curry paste and get cooking!
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Namjai Curry Paste
Curry paste comes in many colors, and each color has its own natural origin from the herbs used to make it. Today Namjai takes you through the main curry paste colors and their signature dishes.
- Green — green spur chilies plus green herbs like coriander = green curry paste. Its signature is a pale green, slightly thick, glossy broth with a touch of heat and a sweet fragrance.
- Red — large dried chilies = red curry paste. Its signature is a red broth with a light sheen of oil and a well-rounded flavor.
- Yellow — large dried chilies plus herbs and spices = massaman curry paste. Its signature is the fragrance released from roasting the herbs and spices, a thick broth with a glossy red sheen on top, and a sweet-leaning flavor that isn’t very spicy.
Beyond its beautiful, appetite-inducing colors, Namjai curry paste is also easy to cook with and delivers a rich, authentic home-kitchen flavor built on a recipe that’s over 60 years old.
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