Sour Curry, Kang Som, with Fried Eggs and Watercress
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp Thai Kang Som curry paste (yellow curry)
- 4 C water
- 1/3 C concentrated tamarind juice
- 4 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 tbsp palm sugar
- Watercress or Cha-om leaves
- 4 eggs
- 12 fresh shrimp
- 2 C dried shrimp, ground up into fine powder
Procedure
Egg
- Rinse watercress thoroughly
- Put part of them in beaten eggs
- Add t tbsp fish sauce
- Heat up a wok with hot oil
- Cook egg until golden all around
- Remove from heat, let rest
Curry
- Add curry paste to a pot with water and stir. Bring to boil
- Lower to medium and add tamarind, fish sauce and palm sugar
- Add ground dried shrimp
- Season, should be sour
- Add shrimp and remainder of watercress, increase to full boil then remove from heat.
- Add fried egg
- Add lime juice if it needs to be more sour.