Paleo Thai Curry Paste (aka me love you long time)

Hopefully you're with me on this; that moment we pick up a jar of sauce or seasoning and think - 'hold on, can't I just make this myself?'  'Am I mentally deficient enough to buy 'seasoning' because I can't be arsed mixing salt and pepper together?'  'Do I really need this two quid jar of pre-peeled, pre-chopped, pre-chewed garlic?'  'Am I that much of a pussy that I need someone else to prep my ingredients for me?' 'Is dioximethanated sodium paleo?'

'Course not.

But there's still that guilty twinge every time I pick up a bucket of thai curry paste and put it in my basket whilst  surreptitiously putting suggestive cucumbers and Vagisil in everyone else's...(great, I just mentioned Vagisil in a recipe post - bet you won't find that on Epicurious!).

Let me be clear.  Vagisil is NOT an ingredient in today's post before I go on any further.  Honestly.

So here it is - a paleo thai curry paste that took all of a minute to create.  This is easily one of the most delicious if not the easiest thing on this site.

Vagisil-free ingredients;

• 1 stick of lemon grass
• 1-3 green chillies (be a dude and leave the seeds in, you sexy beast)
• 1 shallot (or half a red onion)
• 1 peeled thumb of ginger
• Half a cup of coriander
• 5 cloves of garlic
• Half a cup of basil
• Halt a teaspoon of ground cumin
• Half a teaspoon of pepper (Don't fall for the whole white/black pepper scam.  Its the same damn thing)
• The juices of a lime (loving squeezed) (You can tell from the photos I used waay too much lime juice but I love limes...not in a sexual way.  We're just friends.
• 4 tablespoons of coconut milk.

Method;

Um....mash it all up.  Pretty easy really.  Peel the fucking shallot first though but that's pretty much it.  I chopped shit up to make it pretty for the photos but you can just stick it all into a food blender (dry ingredients first then wet).

Check back tomorrow to see what the crap I did with this sexy stuff.
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