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Red duck curry with pineapple and tamarind

Red duck curry with pineapple and tamarind

Serves 4



400 ml   can coconut cream, unshaken
1½ tbsp   red curry paste, or to taste
2 tbsp   fish sauce
2 tbsp   grated palm sugar
1 tbsp   tamarind concentrate
2   kaffir lime leaves
2   400ml cans coconut milk
½   small pineapple (about 1kg), peeled, halved lengthways, cored and cut into 7mm-thick slices
1   Chinese barbecued duck, chopped
1   fresh long red chilli, seeded and thinly sliced, to serve
To serve:   steamed jasmine rice and snowpea shoots


1 Remove top layer of cream from unshaken can of coconut cream, place in a casserole or stainless steel wok and stir frequently over low heat for 6-8 minutes or until cream begins to separate. Add curry paste and stir for another 2-3 minutes or until fragrant, then add fish sauce, palm sugar, tamarind and lime leaves. Stir for 5 minutes or until mixture darkens slightly, then add remaining coconut cream and coconut milk and slowly bring to just below the boil. Add pineapple and duck and cook for another 5 minutes or until just warmed through. Serve curry scattered with sliced red chilli and snowpea shoots over steamed rice.


Drink Suggestion 2004 Jacob’s Creek Reserve Riesling.

RECIPE Christine Osmond PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley STYLING Kristen Anderson


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