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Jen Merckling

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Easy Panang Curry

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Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

I discovered and fell in love with Thai food about 10 years ago (before that—was I really living though?)—curry is life.  In particular, I discovered my most favorite food in all the world—Panang Curry.  I know—this does not exactly sound like something you can recreate at home.  But I love this dish so much, I made it a life mission of sorts to get pretty darn close…So here’s my super simple, Easy Panang Curry (or as my 6-year-old calls it—Spicy Rice…interestingly, Panang Curry is among the only 5 foods he will actually eat)!

Panang Curry can get whipped up in the amount of time it takes to make rice!  Besides being fast, it requires only 6 ingredients—which I keep on hand at all times.  It’s served on white rice (we do jasmine).  You can add chicken, shrimp, veggies, or chickpeas…whatever floats your boat–or enjoy it “plain.”  Served with sliced chicken breast is my personal favorite—but I live with a bunch of vegetarians and a vegan, so usually we go, “plain,” or with beans at my house.  Still amazing, comforting, and very satisfying!

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Easy Panang Curry

Serves 6-8

Cook and Prep Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:

** Jasmine Rice (or rice of your preference).

2 tablespoons coconut oil (or oil of your preference)

4-5 tablespoons panang curry paste (I use Mae Ploy Panang Curry Paste and buy the large container to keep in the freezer once opened.)

2 cans coconut milk (Thai Kitchen—unsweetened, organic)

¼ teaspoon of kaffir lime leaf powder (Burma Spice Kaffir Lime Leaf Ground)

¼ cup of brown sugar

**Optional: 2 tablespoons-1/4 cup of peanut butter**

Prepare rice according to the package directions. While rice is cooking, make panang curry sauce…

Warm coconut oil in a large skillet or pan over medium heat.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Add Panang Curry Paste to the pan and stir to break-up and begin heating through.  The curry will begin to become fragrant and release oils.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Continue cooking over medium to medium-low heat.  Add 1 can of coconut milk.  Gently whisk to incorporate the panang paste—stirring out any clumps.  When well combined, add 2nd can of coconut milk.  Continue to whisk and stir well.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Add kaffir lime leaf powder, stirring well.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Add brown sugar.  Stir until dissolved and sauce is smooth.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

About this time your rice will be getting done—you are ready to eat!

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

To Serve:

**If serving with chicken or shrimp—add your cooked meat to the sauce (I know some people cook their chicken or shrimp in the pan with the sauce—I’m just not that talented.  Instead, I typically oven bake chicken breasts and then slice thinly before adding to the sauce.)

Finally, serve panang curry sauce over your rice—I topped mine with some chickpeas for a little extra protein.

Easy Panang Curry recipe you will love! I've spent years trying to recreate my favorite Thai dish at home! Finally, I found the right balance of flavors! Plus-- it's quick, easy, and requires only 6 pantry items!

Tips and Notes:

“Spicy,” is a bit of personal preference—my idea of spicy and your idea of spicy may be entirely two different things.  At my house, we like to fancy ourselves “spicy,” people…So sometimes I get a little generous with the panang curry paste!  You do you…add more or less to your liking (remember you can always add more).

I spent YEARS trying to create a panang sauce that tastes like my favorite local Thai restaurant.  But something was always just missing…Most recipes call for kaffir lime leaves—which don’t happen to be plentiful at my suburban grocery store—so I just skipped them.  Then last summer, I discovered you can buy kaffir lime powder online!  Game Changer!!  This was the missing piece which had been eluding me for years!  It is a bit pricey—but a little bit goes a long way!  It’s definitely my secret ingredient to a more authentic taste!

Brown sugar is typically in stock at my house—but if you have palm sugar or pure maple syrup—they are great sweeteners for this dish as well!

And one more twist…for years, I made panang curry with peanut butter (adding about ¼ cup to the sauce).  If you like peanut butter, I think it makes for both a great sweetener and adds a little something to the sauce.  Lately (now that I have my treasured kaffir lime powder)—I haven’t been adding peanut butter.  Feels like I found the right formula without needing to add it–but feel free to try it with peanut butter and see what you think!

Enjoy!

I hope your family loves this recipe as much as mine does (it’s also a big hit with my teenagers’ friends)!  For me—panang curry is the perfect “take-out,” food for a fraction of the price—and it comes together so so fast!

With Love,

Jen xo

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