College Cuisine: Red Thai Meatball Curry

SERC staff and students are keeping their cookery and baking skills as sharp as their kitchen knives with weekly food recipes designed to tantalise the taste buds.

This week’s recipe shows you how to make your own Red Thai Meatball Curry. The recipe is as follows:

Ingredients (Serves 4) 

• 500g pack lean beef mince (10% fat) 
• 2 red chillies, 1 chopped, 1 sliced
• Thumb-size piece of ginger, grated 
• 1 free-range egg 
• 1 tbsp sunflower or vegetable oil 
• 1-1½ tbsp Thai red curry paste, (depends on how spicy you like it.) 
• 400ml can reduced-fat coconut milk (or full fat if you prefer) 
• 225g can bamboo shoots, drained 
• 140g fine green beans, trimmed 
• Juice 1 lime, plus extra wedges to serve 
• 20g pack of basil 
• Basmati rice or rice noodles, to serve 

Method:  

1. Put the mince into a large bowl with the chopped chilli, ginger and egg, then season generously. Mix well with your hands, then shape into 20 meatballs. Can be made and chilled up to a day ahead. 
2. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan, then brown the meatballs for 5 mins. Tip onto a plate. Add the curry paste, fry for 1 min, then pour in the coconut milk and half a can of water. Bring back to the boil and stir to make a smooth sauce. 
3. Return the meatballs to the pan with the bamboo shoots and beans. Simmer for 5 mins until the beans are just tender and meatballs cooked through. To serve, season the sauce with salt, pepper and lime juice, then tear in the basil leaves. Scatter with sliced chilli and serve with rice or noodles and more lime wedges for squeezing over. 

These recipes would not be possible without the hard work of SERC’s catering staff, who strive to create excellent meals as well as maintaining a Microsoft Teams page for these recipes to be shared between staff and students. If you are interested in cooking at a professional level, please click here to view our full time Hospitality and Catering courses.  

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