Prawns and sweet potato in a sweet red curry sauce
Serves 6
Preparation time
Cooking time
Serves 6 Preparation time Cooking time Ingredients
- 1 brown onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 30ml peanut oil
- 2 teaspoons red curry paste
- 500g sweet potato
- 400ml coconut milk
- 400ml water
- 50ml lime juice
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 30 green prawns, peeled and deveined
- 1 bunch bok choy, washed and cut
- into strips
- ½ bunch coriander, washed and picked
Method
- Peel and finely slice the onion and garlic
- Heat the oil in a large saucepan and fry them until they are soft
- Add in the curry paste and fry for another 3-4 minutes stirring to combine
- Peel and cut the sweet potato into 1cm cubes and add to the paste
- Pour in the coconut milk and water and simmer until sweet potato is almost cooked
- Season the curry with the lime juice, sugar and salt
- Add the prawns and simmer until cooked
- Stir through the bok choy and coriander and serve with steamed rice
- The curry sauce is sweet and not too spicy but you may want to cut down the curry paste for the kids
