Name: Thai Mushroom Curry
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cup Mushroom (quartered, cut each mushroom into 4 equal pieces); 1 cup Onion (almost of the same size as the quartered mushrooms, cut into small cubes); 1 cup Capsicum (cut into thin small strips like 1 inch of a noodle strand); 3 tsp Tomato paste (store bought thick paste) or from 2 medium sized peeled tomato(if homemade); Ginger (garlic paste - 3 tsp); 2 - Cloves (Grambu); Cinnamon (An inch long stick, Karugapatta); 1 1/2 tbsp Soya sauce; 1 1/2 tbsp Red chilly sauce; 3 tbsp Cooking oil; Black pepper powder (As reqd); Salt (As reqd); 1 tsp Corn flour (if you need gravy); Basil leaves (A handful); Coriander leaves for garnishing

Thai Mushroom Curry

Spicy mushroom and capsicum curry - Thai style

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine Thai

Servings people

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup Mushroom quartered, cut each mushroom into 4 equal pieces
1 cup Onion almost of the same size as the quartered mushrooms, cut into small cubes
1 cup Capsicum cut into thin small strips like 1 inch of a noodle strand
3 tsp Tomato paste store bought thick paste) or from 2 medium sized peeled tomato(if homemade
Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp
2 - Cloves Grambu
Cinnamon An inch long stick, Karugapatta
1 1/2 tbsp Soya sauce
1 1/2 tbsp Red chilly sauce
3 tbsp Cooking oil
Black pepper powder As reqd
Salt As reqd
1 tsp Corn flour if you need gravy
Basil leaves A handful
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Instructions

Heat a pan (with wide bottom) and add ginger-garlic paste.
Reduce the flame from high to medium at this point.
Once the ginger-garlic paste loses its' raw uncooked smell and turns crisp, add the onions, cloves and cinnamon.
:- The flame may be increased now.
When the onions turn sand brown and slightly transparent, add in the mushrooms.
:- Mushrooms have a lot of water in them. So keep the pan well-heated till all the water evaporates and the mushrooms shrink in size.
Add required amount of black pepper, red chilly sauce, soya sauce and tomato paste. Stir well.
Close the lid of the pan and allow the mushrooms to get cooked for 10 mins on medium flame.
Open the lid and then add the sliced capsicum.
Add required amount of salt.
:- Please keep in mind that soya sauce does contain salt in it.
Stir the masala on high flame for about 3 mins.
Add the basil leaves.
:- If you need a thick gravy add some water and corn flour and reduce it down.
Turn the stove off.
Tranfer it to a bowl.
Garnish with coriander leaves.
:- Serve with fried rice or chappathis.