This is a spectacular and delicious recipe. I made this with my homemade Thai Red Curry but you can also use storebought. I love using glass noodles, these are made from mung bean, it’s gluten free and I love how they take on a glass like look when they’re cooked.

Spicy Shrimp Glass Noodles

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

  • Red curry paste
  • 20 Chinese Chillies
  • 3 tbsps Fish Sauce
  • 1/4 cup Garlic
  • 1 tsp Fish Shrimp or Crab paste
  • 3 Shallots
  • 1 tsp White Peppercorns
  • 2 tbsps Coriander roots
  • 1/4 cup Lemongrass
  • 2 Lime leaves
  • 1/4 cup Galangal
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 300 gms 10.5 oz Bean Noodles
  • 1 tbsp Sesame Oil
  • 2 tbsps regular Oil
  • 1/4 cup Shallots
  • 1/4 cups Spring Onions
  • 1/2 cups sliced Mushrooms
  • 2-3 Lime leaves
  • 2 tsps Red Curry Paste
  • 2 tsps Shrimp paste
  • 2 tbsps Fish sauce
  • 300 gms Shrimp
  • 1 tsp Palm Sugar
  • 1/4 cup Water
  • 1/4 cup Bamboo shoots
  • 1/4 cup julienne of Carrots
  • 1/4 cup Spring Onion leaves

Method
 

  1. If you’re making the Red Curry paste from scratch, start with all the liquid ingredients and then the rest and pulse till it gets pureed.
  2. If its still thick you can smooth it down with a mortar and pestle
  3. Soak the bean noodles and drain
  4. Heat the sesame and regular oil, add the shallots, spring onion and mushrooms
  5. Add the lime leaves, red curry paste, shrimp paste, fish sauce
  6. Add the Shrimp and saute
  7. Add the palm sugar & water
  8. Cover with the bean noodles and toss
  9. Add the bamboo shoots, carrots and spring onions