Anybuddy know good INDIAN/THAI recipes that are LOW point?

[Karkies]

Anybuddy know good INDIAN/THAI recipes that are LOW point?
I would appreciate any input...thanks!
Karkies
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[starshine]

Hi Karkie!
I eat Thai food most days, but I don't often cook it for myself. I live in Sydney and there are lots of good cheap Thai and Indian restaurants here. Tom Yum soup is fantastic, very low in points. I'll try to remember to bring in a recipe from home.
There are also a range of curries from Northern Thailand, like jungle curry, which don't have coconut milk. My local lunch place does a stirfry which is mainly pumpkin with a little lemon grass, chili and galangal and small pieces of chicken breast. Filling, delicious, low points.
My mother, who is OP, makes green curry using low fat coconut milk. I've made it myself using a creamy soy milk and a few drops of coconut essence in place of coconut milk. You fry a couple of tablespoons of green curry paste (with a spray of oil), add onions, garlic and ginger, then add your cubed meat (or chicken or fish) to seal it. Then simmer the lot in coconut milk (or suitable substitute) until the meat is tender. Serve with plain rice.
Can you get green curry paste where you are? I think Asian groceries in most places would have them. The good ones have no oil or very little--check.
You can also substitute tinned tomatoes for the coconut milk, this makes a really nice curry with beef. Red curry paste is good with beef.
Indian I've found trickier. I usually end up eating rice and dahl. You could make a dahl without ghee, just using a teaspoon or two of olive oil. And you can make curries like the Thai one described using Indian spices.

I'll bring some recipes from home and post them for you, if I can, in the next few days. I only have the net at work.

Incidentally, one of the only problems I have with this food is measuring rice by eye. Sometimes I think I should just take my measuring cup in and who cares what anyone thinks. Denial of how big a serve of rice is, is a real danger area for me!

Regards,

starshine.

[ellen1954]

Tonight I made a Curried Shrimp with Peanut Sauce from the current issue of Cooking Light. Everyone liked it A LOT! Also, there is a Veggies in Peanut Sauce from the WW Make it Snappy book that we liked a lot. You could add chicken for a complete meal. Each are 7-8 points and that includes 1 cup noodles with the sauce/shrimp. We were stuffed, too. http://www.healthdiscovery.net/ubb/smile.gif Hope that helps.

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Ellen
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus

[marty]

Ellen:
the recipes you mention with peanut sauce sound so good!!! Could you post the recipes?
Thanks.