Vegetarian vs. nonvegetarian recipes

Erika G - May 14, 2007 07:15:59 AM PST

To the comment on the bottom: Relax.....just substitute veggie chicken in place of regular and use veggie broth. You can use a lot of chicken recipes that way. I love Morning Star veggie chicken that comes in a bag in the freezer section. Quorn does a good job too - also in the freezer section.

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Spice it up

stocksaway - January 28, 2008 06:12:12 PM PST

I doubled the spices (garlic, thai paste, and ginger) and still found it a little lacking in punch. Big hit otherwise. It had great flavor, I just expected Thai to have a little more heat. Next time I will add red pepper. Also, of the three of us eating the recipe (which claimed to feed 4), two were still hungry at the end of the meal. This did include a teen boy, which skews things. I ate about a quarter of the original batch with rice and felt it was just the right amount. Next time I\'ll double everything, quadruple the spices and add some red pepper to get it right and hopefully have enough leftovers for lunch. I added cilantro as a garnish as well as the fresh lime and it was just the ticket.

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TIP: Make it quick(er).

idonnanj - October 1, 2007 03:20:14 PM PST

When I have a recipe that requires a lot of chopping and I\'m in a hurry, I buy many of the fresh ingredients (onions, peppers, califlower, spinach, etc.) from the salad bar. It saves me plenty of time. The majoriity of the other stuff (sans chicken) comes from a well stocked pantry.

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REDUCE CHOPPING TIME

Pamela M - October 1, 2007 03:24:59 PM PST

I think this looks and sounds yummy. You can buy peppers and onions already cut in the frozen vegetable aisle at the grocery store and you can find jars of minced garlic in the produce or condiment aisles. I would also buy the chicken tenderloins instead of whole breasts cause you can just line them up and run the knife through to make bite size pieces since they\'re already strips. This should help cut down on chopping time.

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making it veg

dlitchious - March 21, 2007 02:33:39 PM PST

Last night I made this using no chicken, and subbing the chicken broth with veggie broth. I was even able to find red curry paste which surprised me! I could not find "lite" coconut milk so I used regular. This dish was DELICIOUS, I can\'t wait to make it again. My husband went veggie a year ago so I am always looking for good and creative new veg dishes. It was GREAT! I highly recommend.

I agree that it should not be labeled as vegetarian though...

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Quick?

Jaime - September 17, 2007 03:15:53 PM PST

It was tasty,but I have to agree with the single fella there... unless you work on a cooking show where someone has pre-measured and chopped and cut and so on for you, the time it takes to chop up all this stuff kind of kills the quick. Still, very tasty... just wouldn\'t consider this fast or week-night-i\'m-exhausted friendly.

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Loved it

Holly - October 15, 2007 02:36:36 PM PST

Easy to fix and very delicious. I will add more curry paste next time because I would like it hotter, but I always make it by the recipe the first time and see if I think it needs anything corrected for my taste. Some might think it\'s spicy enough.

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Sodium

billye w - October 5, 2009 04:56:17 PM PST

Why is there no listing of Sodium content for any of the recipes? I see amounts for sugars, fats and cholesterol, but no Sodium amount!

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Is this authentic?

putterman337 - May 18, 2009 09:34:28 PM PST

I have noticed that many of the recipies on here for asian cuisine are less than authentic. Like I wonder how authetic spinach is as a thai ingredient. I mean when you go out to thai places you see much more basil, especially when its with chicken. The only spinach I personally have had in thai cooking is the vegetarian dishes with tofu, and if your familair with culture you know in hungrier and less developed countries where people have had a history of poverty, refugees and etc being a vegetarian is less of a choice and more of just getting by with whats available to eat. In countries where historically food has been more scarce its hard to find people who would turn down meat. So I wonder if spinach is really a vegetable used widely in thailand. Every recipe i have seen for spinach in thai food is really americanized thai food just do a yahoo search on \"thai spinach\" and the whole 1st page looks like very westernized thai food. I am korean and remember when these clowns put in cilantro as a korean ingredient. Traditional korean food is void of the stuff, since cilantro in korea is a modern day ingredient in that country and mainly used in non korean restaurants in korea. Even though I am no authority I have my doubts on how thai this recipe is. The ingredients that seemed thai were the coconut milk and fish oil but everything else is pretty much available and used worldwide so to call it thai may be just putting a name on something that probably people in thailand may not widely eat daily or just worldly generic in the sense that all the other ingredients are particular to many cultures.

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Way too spicy

marquee5230 - March 12, 2009 02:52:06 PM PST

A teaspoon and a half of red curry paste? You have to be out of your mind! Just a tiny smidgen of that stuff would be spicy enough for most Americans. Don\\\'t anyone even try that amount unless you\\\'re willing to be burnt to a crisp.

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delicious

playnakedlifeshort - March 11, 2009 12:32:55 PM PST

mmmm very good u can buy this @ trader joes

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Important Ingredients Forgotten

biggitybecca - March 11, 2009 11:14:23 AM PST

Basil - specifically Thai Basil. I\\\'m guessing the recipe author confused the basil for spinach. That is probably the reason several reviewers felt the dish was bland. Bamboo shoots and Kaffir Lime leaves also help the dish. Also, add tastier veggies like zucchini, green beans, or eggplant.

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Orginal Thai Chicken Curry need no ginger

secondbestlover - March 11, 2009 10:51:02 AM PST

I\\\'m Thai and having this dish since I were a kid. Our recipe need no ginger in this dish and most of Thai food. We put in Hot Chilli (called "Prik Khee Noo" in Thai) to make them spicy hot. May be you try the real thing and you shall find out how splendid the original Thai food are.

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Vegetarian: Caution

Mangi - November 11, 2008 12:17:30 PM PST

If you read the label on the curry paste (red), most of the time they contain SHRIMP PASTE. I just thought I\'d share this.

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Very Good!!!

tigerlily - September 3, 2008 03:26:15 AM PST

First time making it and it was a big hit. I only made a few changes: I seasoned the chicken with sea salt, added black pepper and a little bit more soy sauce.

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a tiny problem with the recipe

parnian - August 26, 2008 01:51:29 PM PST

this recipe ain\'t that quick ! you need a lot of time to get ready to cook, cause the ingredients are too much. no i won\'t call it quick, but it\'s gonna be delicious.

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Quick Thai Chicken...

veritassl - June 23, 2008 12:08:15 PM PST

I can\'t wait to try it for the first time...
...if I only knew if this is rice what I see on the dish!

Anyway, thank you!

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Will not make this again

loves to cook - May 2, 2008 09:50:10 AM PST

I prepared this dish for my family last night. It is an uncomplicated recipe and prep time was minimal. It was very bland. I will not recommed this reciepe to anyone.

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I love the ingredients

lee - October 13, 2007 06:11:11 AM PST

Between the shopping for ingredients and prep time, the recipe is not practical for swf eating alone. And as leftovers last 2 days, I love the taste without the fuss. I may talk to my market to make packets of these ingredients for Thai dinners.

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That

~*Nikki*~ - July 14, 2007 11:04:00 AM PST

You know, to the two \'readers\', in which I\'ll use that term lightly on them: If they actually \'read\' the title and following comments, they wouldn\'t have made fools out of thjemselves. This can be made \'vegetarian\' style as one of the reviewers have. I\'ve made it both ways and it\'s incredible.

And for our neophytes that commented:

1) Read and understand before you decide to judge. You might get a wrinkle on your brain! *GaSps!?*

2) Rinse, repeat step 1.

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Quick? Really?

morgino - April 5, 2007 12:41:21 PM PST

I dont consider something with 15-20 ingredients as quick. I\'m a bachelor and wouldnt mind cooking but I\'d like to see something that is actually "quick and easy"

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