This is the season of pumpkins.
Everywhere you turn to, you see pumpkins as everyone is gearing up for Halloween in a few days.
I love pumpkins, I use it to make pumpkin noodles, which is rather delicious.
I also use it to make the best mashed potatoes (try adding a little pumpkin or kabocha to your mashed potatoes and you will never go back to plain potatoes!).
But one of my favorite ways to use pumpkin is to add it to curries, especially Thai-style curries, such as this beef curry with pumpkin.
Thai curries are usually creamier and sweeter and hence pumpkin is great as an ingredient.
This recipe is made with beef, but you can always use chicken or seafood, and it will work equally well.
I personally love the addition of pumpkin into red curry, as the end result is so much more interesting than a regular and plain curry.
As the cooking process breaks down the pumpkin pieces, every scoop of this curry is laced with pieces of sweet pumpkin, which goes extremely well with the fragrant steamed jasmine rice.
As Halloween will soon be over in a few days, I am sure many of will have leftover pumpkins.
Try this beef curry with pumpkin recipe, or pumpkin rice noodles. I bet you will love the two recipes.
How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 381 calories per serving.
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Beef Curry with Pumpkin
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Ingredients
- 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 pack (1.76 oz. /50g) red curry paste, see picture below
- 4 tablespoons plus 1 1/2 cups (350 ml) coconut milk
- 1 pound (0.4 kg) beef , sliced thinly
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika powder
- 6 kaffir lime leaves
- 1 1/2 cups cubed pumpkin or Kabocha pumpkin
Instructions
- In a small bowl, mix together the vegetable oil, red curry paste and 4 tablespoons coconut milk. Stir-fry the red curry paste mixture in a wok over medium heat until fragrant.
- Add the beef and give a quick toss. Let it cook for about 1 minute and then add in the 1 1/2 cups coconut milk, fish sauce, sugar, paprika powder and kaffir leaves. Stir to mix.
- Bring to a boil and then reduce the heat. Cook for 8-10 minutes. Add the pumpkin and cook for another 4-5 minutes. Serve with rice.
Notes
This is the red curry paste I used for this recipe.
Nutrition Information
Yield
4Serving Size
4 peopleAmount Per Serving Calories 381Total Fat 31gSaturated Fat 15gUnsaturated Fat 0gCholesterol 80mgSodium 608mgCarbohydrates 4gSugar 2gProtein 20g
Tiffany Blackmon
What cut of beef are you using for this recipe? Beef Curry with Pumpkin? Please advise.
Rasa Malaysia
Beef cubes for stews.
Cherie
What type of beef did u use for the recipe.
Victoria from London
This was really fabulous. I didn’t have k lime leaves but I added plenty of lime juice which it needed, so tasty, and super easy. thanks!
Rasa Malaysia
Thanks for trying out my beef curry with pumpkin recipe!
Haley
If all I have is the Maesri brand cans of red curry paste, how much should I substitute? Is there a significant difference between that brand and the packet that you used here?
Rasa Malaysia
Use the same amount.
FAITH47
Hi, I would like to make this recipe “BEEF CURRY WITH PUMPKIN”, is it okay not to put kaffir lime leaves or can I just put a lemon zest instead.
Thank you,Faith
Rasa Malaysia
That’s fine.