Thai Village Cuisine

Has anyone tried to cook thai food at home?

I need some help. I cooked vegetables in thai red curry. But did not taste good. Every ingredient was added as per the instructions. This is what i did: Added two tbsp of red curry paste. Then added coconut milk and cooked it for 2 mins. After that added two cups of water and cooked for 5 mins. After this I added the frozen pack of stir-fry vegetables and cooked it for 10 mins. Then added fish sauce. can anyone please tell me what went wrong?

Public Comments

1. curry can be touchy .......too much can really spoil a dish . next time i would use less curry paste , and season to taste . good luck !
2. thai food dont need to add a coconut milk.
3. You lost me with the fish sauce.
4. My friend makes pretty much the same recipe all the time. It's ok but not great. You're using too much water. Max one cup, but only if the cook time is long or there's lotsa of veggies. Keep it in mind that you don't want to dilute the sauce, but want to have enough to cover the veggies and meat (if you have it) while it's cooking. Though you don't want it to be too thick, you can't make it too thick, really. It goes over rice and whoppee. It's a ramen style dish--easy. Make rice, throw vegetables and stuff into boiling pot. Serve. The sauce will be fine when you use much less water. Add flavorful vegetables, too. Use your instincts, kitchen masta.
5. i do my thai style coconut curry very differently, with very good results. 1. boil 1 can coconut cream with one tsp salt, one tbsp sugar, three tbsp soy sauce, few slices of dried galangal or fresh ginger root, few dry leaves of caffir (lime), one crushed stalk of lemongrass. 2. once boiled, add curry to taste (my favorite one is green). and cook for two minutes or so. 3. add vegetables. potatoes and eggplants need more time. cauliflower and mushrooms need less. carrots, squashes, onions, and pumpkins are somewhere in the middle. i'm vegetarian do i don't use fish or oyster sauces. if you want you can add a bit just before cooking good luck
6. Oh sure you can add coconut milk in Thai food! (someone on here said you shouldn't.... haha... baloni!!) I agree.. you may have added too much of the curry, but it's hard to really say without seeing the recipe.. All I can suggest is to not give up on Thai cooking! Even if your dish didn't turn out like you would have wanted it this time... you'll get it next time! Get some great Thai cookbooks at your local library!! ;o) YUM
7. Please don't serve Thai food to anyone it tastes like puke.