My first experiment with Thai food
I've never had "thai food" before, but when I go to the Capital City Chophouse, I always get the calimari, which is lightly breaded and tossed in what they called a "thai chili sauce". I figured shrimp would probably be good that way, so I decided to try it.
A little googling found a Thai Shrimp recipe on the Food Network web site, which I modified slightly to server over a bed of spinach lettuce instead of rice noodles, and I used splenda instead of sugar.
Here's the recipe:
1/2 cup lime juice
1/4 cup sugar (or Splenda)
2 tbsp fish sauce
1/2 tsp red curry paste
1 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
1/2 cup loosely packed cilantro leaves
Combine lime juice, sugar, and fish sauce, and curry in a medium sized skillet and bring to a boil over medium high heat. Add shrimp, and reduce heat to medium low. Cook 3-4 minutes, until shrimp is tender.
Now, if you pour the mixture over pasta or rice, you're going to get the "full calorie" value of the lime juice - which really isn't much, but it's pretty much all of the carbs in the recipe (about 20). In our case, We just took the shrimp and put it on a a spinach salad, with enough sauce to flavor the spinach leaves.
Oh, I also accidentally bought cooked shrimp. Oops! It still tasted pretty good, but I only cooked it for about a minute before turning the heat off and letting the shrimp just soak up some of the sauce before using it.
At any rate, the flavor was fantastic. It wasn't quite what I expected, but it still turned out really good.
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the shrimp recipe "looks" authenticate though except maybe we'd use palm sugar.
btw if you really want to get into thai food, a quite long time ago i bought my mom a cookbook "thai cooking in american kitchens" or something like that. seemed to work well though i guess these days finding thai ingredients is a lot easier.
Thanks for your comment, I might look into that book. My wife loves thai food.
But I did promise my wife I'd let her take me out for thai food some time.