Coconut Curry Beef

I did not attempted this recipe before because it had a number of odd ingredients in it that I just didn't feel like buying. But this week I sucked it up, purchased what I needed and gave it try. What I am going to do with a leftover jar of yellow curry paste, some coconut milk and and fish sauce I am not sure of yet. The fun thing about this recipe was tasting it to see how what flavour the mixture of ingredients concocted. Also added to the above items was peanut butter, cilantro and peanuts. It was very pleasant. I could even see this sauce working on chicken.

The only down side of this recipe was that some of the ingredients were loaded with salt. The fish sauce for instance has of 1350mg of salt in 1 tablespoon and you need 2 tablespoons in this meal. Add to that the 235 additional mg from the yellow curry paste and we are really getting up there. I haven't even added in the soy sauce either. Just to put that in perspective, the amount of salt an adult needs in one day is 1500mg.

Now to be fair I do purchase lower sodium soy sauce. There is a possibility that low sodium curry paste and fish sauce exist but there was only one grocery store in my neighbourhood even sold those two items and they only offered one type.

SERVED WITH: Broccoli and brown rice

COOKING TIPS: Don't forget to give yourself a good 30 minutes to let the meat marinate before you start cooking it.

RATING: 6.5. The flavour was good but the amount of sodium is not!