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Thai Green Curry Vegetables

Name: Thai Green Curry Vegetables
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 3 tbsp green curry paste; 400 ml coconut milk; 200 ml water; 1 aubergine, in chunks; 1 red pepper; 150 g green beans; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tsp sugar; Handful basil; Lime, to finish

A good shop-bought paste is the shortcut; fry it in the coconut cream solids first to wake the aromatics..

By Dana Reyes

Published 23 Sep 2026 · Tested 2 times · 0 comments

Thai Green Curry Vegetables — Let the curry sit off the heat a minute so the veg drinks the sauce without overcooking.

10 min

Prep time

20 min

Cook time

Serves

4.7

NEW

Tastes like a takeaway, forgives everything

A good shop-bought paste is the shortcut; fry it in the coconut cream solids first to wake the aromatics.

Cut the veg by cooking time — hard first, leafy last — so nothing is raw or grey.

We tested fish sauce versus soy for the salt. Fish sauce is traditional and deeper; soy keeps it vegan.

Instructions

About 30 min from start to finish

Spoon the thick top off the coconut milk and fry the paste in it 1 minute.

Add the rest of the milk and water; bring to a simmer.

Add the aubergine and pepper; cook 8 minutes, then the beans 4 minutes.

Season with fish sauce and sugar; stir in basil and lime.

Testing notes & substitutions

Three rounds of testing turned up three things worth knowing before you start cooking.

Add protein

Tofu, chicken or prawns all go in with the hard veg.

Spicier

An extra spoon of paste or a sliced chilli lifts the heat.

Questions we get a lot

Why split the coconut?

Frying the solids first is what makes the curry taste restaurant-made.

Too salty?

Fish sauce is salty; add it last and taste as you go.

Dana Reyes

Dana has cooked professionally for eleven years and has been testing recipes for Hearth & Thyme since 2019. She writes about weeknight cooking, slow breads, and the small techniques that quietly change a dish. Every recipe she publishes is cooked at least twice, in an ordinary home oven.