Vegan Thai Red Curry

Vegan Thai Red Curry Recipe | How to make Vegan Thai Red Curry

Spicy, delicious, filling and healthy Vegan Thai Red Curry Recipe for comforting and filling meals

Now make your favourite, restaurant style spicy Red Thai curry at home with fresh ingredients and homemade Red Curry Paste. If you haven't tried your favorite Thai food at home, then do read the post and try my easy and quick recipe.

Why we love Thai Red Curry

The best part about the curry is

it is VEGAN (suits all),

you can make it GLUTEN-FREE,

have it with rice/noodles or like soup and

the recipe is adaptable as per one's preferences

and Yes!! it is so delicious!!

A warm bowl of Thai curry not only soothes the taste buds but is also filling and so comforting especially on rainy evenings or cold chilly winters. I and my teenage daughter who loves spicy food , don't even need rice with it, with our favourite veggies added to it we can slurrp and finish it . My hubby who is not a fan of coconut milk based dishes, finishes it without any complaining with steamed rice on side!! For my 9 yr old this is a bit spicy and then loads of veggies right now don't appeal to him 🙂

What is Thai Red Curry

Thai Red Curry is a Thai dish, made with Red Curry paste in coconut milk.

We can add any meat/ veggies or protein to it depending on our eating preferences.

Though Thai curry is made with coconut milk, traditional Thai Curry is not Vegan or Vegetarian. But we can now customize it as per our dietary preferences as substitutes are always available.

Variation for Thai Curries

There are 3 main variations to Thai curry.. Green Thai Curry, Yellow Thai curry and Red Thai Curry. These curries are made with curry pastes . The difference is because of the herbs and chillies used in preparing these curry pastes which adds on the different flavour and color to the curries.

This post I am covering the Spicy Red Thai Curry, which is one of my favourite. I love spicy food and this one suits my Indian taste buds so well.

Thai Red Curry Paste for Vegan Thai Red Curry

We can use store bought Red Curry Paste(without shrimp) or use homemade Red Thai Curry paste. Vegan Red Curry paste is available in all the grocery stores nowadays. But if it is not available then you can order from Amazon or make at home. It does not take long, just add all the ingredients in grinder and blitz..

Check out my detailed post for Homemade Thai Red Curry Paste(soon posting the link)

Authentic Red Thai Curry is made from Red Curry Paste which has Shrimp paste in it. Also, fish sauce is added to curry. Since we are vegetarians, I have skipped the shrimp paste and fish sauce.

Galangal, Kaffir Lime leaves and Lemongrass give it the unique flavour. Nothing can beat the flavour of curry paste/curry made from authentic Thai ingredients. But, incase if you don't have the authentic Thai ingredients use the substitutes which work very well and give the authentic Thai Red Curry.

Basic Ingredients for Veg. Thai Red Curry

Thai Red Curry Paste- Store bought or homemade.

Coconut Milk- Full fat creamy Coconut milk works best for the curry, but you can always use low fat coconut milk.

Veggies- Add your favourite veggies.. I used broccoli, colored bell peppers, mushrooms, carrots. Other veggies that go well with it ..bok choy, water chestnuts, cauliflower

Protein- Add bean sprouts, tofu(vegans) and vegetarians can add paneer also. I didn't add any this time.

Kaffir Lime Leaves/Peel - Add if you get it. Else substitute with lemon/lime zest and lemon juice like I did.

Fresh Coriander/Cilantro, Basil- For garnish, to add more flavour. If you cannot get Thai basil, you can use the Italian basil

Soy Sauce- For Gluten-free curry use Gluten-free Soy Sauce or Tamari Sauce.

Sweetener- To balance the acidic nature of chillies. I used Raw Cane sugar. You can add maple syrup or honey(if not vegan).

How to make Vegan Thai Red Curry with Homemade Thai Red Curry Paste

If have store bought paste it is a breeze to make curry. With Coconut Milk pack in hand and your choice of veggies/proteins, you can make prepare delicious dinner in just a few minutes.

Check here detailed recipe for -->Homemade Thai Red Curry Paste . I have added the steps in the recipe card also.

Steps to make Red Curry

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Recipe card for Vegan Thai Red Curry

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