Ingredients

  • 1 cup coconut milk
  • 1 teaspoon green curry paste (Thai)
  • 2 teaspoons garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 tablespoons fish sauce
  • 1 lb jumbo shrimp, peeled, deveined, tails on
  • 4 stalks lemongrass
  • salt & freshly ground black pepper
  • 1/4 cup vegetable oil
  • GARNISH
  • reserved marinade
  • 2 teaspoons lime juice
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon chopped mint

Method

  • Combine coconut milk, curry paste and garlic in a saucepan and bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer for 8 to 10 minutes or until coconut milk has thickened slightly.
  • Stir in lime juice and fish sauce, cool then toss with shrimp and marinate for 1 hour.
  • Remove shrimp from marinade and thread shrimps onto lemon grass stalks, spearing shrimps in 2 places so that they don't turn on the skewers. Season with salt and pepper. (Reserve marinade.).
  • Preheat grill to high.
  • Brush shrimp with extra oil and grill about 2 minutes per side or until shrimps are cooked.
  • While shrimp is cooking, place reserved marinade in a small pot over high heat, bring to a boil and boil for 3 minutes or until quite thick (like mayonnaise).
  • Remove from heat, stir in extra lime juice and sugar.
  • Drizzle over grilled shrimp and sprinkle with mint.