Ingredients
- Prep: 20 min
- Cook: 10 min
- Total: 30 min
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Thai curry
tofu
What goes with it?
In season in Germany right now
Preparation:
- Slice the tofu.
- Cut the vegetables into bite-sized pieces.
- Cut the chili into thin rings.
- Strip the leaves from the stems. If you like, you can finely chop the mild part of the stem and cook it along with everything else.
Tofu:
- Fry the tofu in a heat-stable fat (e.g. coconut oil) and deglaze with shiitake mushroom sauce.
- Then cut it into bite-sized cubes.
Rice:
- First rinse the rice in a sieve under running water.
- Bring the rice to a boil in a pot with 1.5 times the amount of water and simmer for 3 min.
- Then set the pot aside.
Coconut cream
- Bring the coconut cream to a boil (until the coconut oil separates from the cream).
Tip: If you don't have coconut cream, use regular coconut milk and let it reduce after stirring in the curry paste.
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Add the coconut milk and stir in the curry paste, palm sugar and soy sauce.
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Add the tofu and vegetables.
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Simmer for 3 minutes.
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Turn off the stove.
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Add the ingredients for this step and let everything sit for 5 minutes.
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Finally, take the lime leaves out again.
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Fluff up the rice with a fork and serve it with the curry and the tofu.
Tips
About the ingredients:
A Thai curry only becomes unmistakably delicious with the right ingredients:
- Curry paste: The curry paste probably has the biggest influence on the flavor. I find many supermarket pastes rather boring in taste. I've had very good results with the paste from Cock Brand, though. You can also make the paste yourself.
- Tofu: Anyone who has eaten a tofu dish at an Asian restaurant knows the difference between fresh and packaged tofu. Fresh tofu has a much softer texture but can still be fried or deep-fried really well. Highly recommended!
- Don't confuse coconut cream with cream of coconut - that's the sweetened version for piña coladas.
Addendum on coconut cream: Avoid products from Aroy-D, as this company exploits monkeys to pick coconuts. When buying coconut milk products, make sure they're not produced with the help of trained monkeys. You'll find a list of harmless coconut milk products on the following PETA page (in German): link 1. See also: link 2. As of 2022.
Nutrition
estimated per serving
- 1137kcal
- 22.2 gProtein
- 68.3 gCarbs
- 87.4 gFat
Calculated from all ingredients, including the sides. Values vary depending on the product, the size of the vegetables and how you prepare them.
Cost Test phase
estimated per serving
about €2.70
What goes into the price
- coconut cream€0.75
- coconut milk€0.64
- tofu€0.35
- Thai basil€0.25
- basmati rice€0.18
- soy sauce€0.14
- Thai eggplants€0.12
- button mushrooms€0.11
- bell pepper€0.10
- chili€0.04
- shiitake mushroom sauce€0.02
- palm sugar< €0.01
Total €2.69 per serving, rounded to about €2.70. Not counted: kaffir lime leaves *, curry paste.
This section is still in a test phase: a rough estimate based on conventional German discount-supermarket prices (as of September 2026). Only the amounts used are counted, excluding salt, pepper and spices.
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