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Peter Evans

Laksa Paste


Makes about 1 cup of paste.

Ingredients

  • 1 red onion
  • Sea salt
  • 2 tablespoons ginger chopped
  • 4 cloves
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric chopped
  • 1 stalk of lemongrass bottom 1/3 only - chopped
  • 10 dried chilli's or 3 birdsey chillies
  • 6 candle nuts or macadamia
  • ½ teaspoon shrimp paste
  • 1 bunch coriander root and stems
  • 10 vietnamese mint leaves
  • 1 teaspoon coriander seed
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seed
  • 4 cardamom pods
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seed
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • ½ teaspoon cinnamon
  • Drizzle of vegetable oil (on top of paste to seal in flavour)

Method

  1. Blend all ingredients in a blender and cover with some oil and refrigerate for up to a month or pound each ingredient in a mortar and pestle starting with the onion and the salt (the salt helps to break down the onion with its texture) then adding each one once you have pounded the previous ingredient.
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  • Debi11
    March 2012

    made this as my first ever laksa. people at my work RAVED about it and I passed on the recipe.

  • Hooked on Laksa
    July 2011

    So where is the resy of how to cook this Laksa?

  • Scott156
    June 2011

    Hey Matt your paste recipe is pretty dam good.

  • Bindi
    January 2011

    Hmmm, why are people so un-kind? Variety is the spice of life, deal with it! So how much of the galangal? Am cooking tonight, so prompt response would be very helpful. if not, enjoy life, it is way too short fro grumpy butts!

  • patrik sookun
    December 2010

    sorry i mean laksa soup with all my respect to the Asian cuisine.

  • patrik sookun
    December 2010

    In my opinion the kaksa soup is the best in the world and i only discover it in Australia. As a result there is an extraordinary range of sharing knowledge in Aussie and great pleasure to learn Asian cooking as well. Great thank to Peter for your revolution and I double checy with the book of Terry Durack that you can omit the fennel seed and the cardamon pods but galangal is a must and also paprika can be usee ( another revolution )

  • Pussynippl
    March 2010

    This is not the laksa we use to cook here in Russia since generation. The rice is missing, also Laksa shouldn`t be like a soup or a broth but more like an omlette, lah. Many ppl don`t know that laksa was inventet by Russian immigrants ant later changed.

  • sbw
    October 2009

    if you watched the video, you would see that he added galangal. yes, it should have been added to the recipe, but don't be so quick to bash!

  • MartyMeh
    September 2009

    The biggest diversions would have to be the big red onion and the mint, also maybe fennel and cinnamon. Apart from that it looks fine, and tasty. Galangal is notably absent, but is not always easy to find. Ginger is a suitable replacement. Shrimp paste is an absolute must.

  • Killa Zee
    August 2009

    This is waay not the curry paste I was taught. I too was thinking WTF is he cooking?

  • dak dak
    June 2009

    So much anger. Amy can you tell me the actual ingredients? I want to make the same laksa as sold in many malaysian chinese restaurants.

  • Janice T
    June 2009

    Hi...while I admire Peter for his version but the malaysian/singapore version is quite different...

  • amy beh
    February 2009

    you're not making laksa paste but some unknown curry paste..and never use big red onion for any paste. and FYI you missed the biggest ingredient here.. e.g galangal. mate ,i can find so many flaws in ur recipe. .therefore i wouldnt recommend this recipe. Please don't alter so much our laksa recipe, it's an insult for malaysian n singaporean.

    • Richard Green
      5 months ago

      Getting offended because someone makes something differently than the way you consider to be right is the stupidest thing I ever heard... If it tastes good who cares and besides, I thought cooking was all about personal exploration, when was the last time a professional chef cooked anything exactly THE way it's "meant" to be? I say get off your elitist high horse and enjoy some good food! Thanks for this recipe Peter Evans, I look forward to trying it and modifying it/experimenting with it to how I want it to be

    • me444
      August 2010

      watch the videoAmy - he makes specific mention of galangal. and who said hes trying to make a malay or singa laksa? we live in Australia here and will make whatever the hell tastes good. go and post your own video if your so fanatical about your recipe

    • Guru Sri Lexy
      July 2010

      Sorry...i meant Peter....not Matt

    • Guru Sri Lexy
      July 2010

      Hey Matt...i'm Malaysian, i'm a foodie, and a purist when it comes to food.....i gotta say...your paste recipe is pretty darn good....it has majority of the essential ingredients...with a little creative improvisation of your twist your own...well done mate...i'm going to try this out over the weekend... alex jacobs

    • Colin Mead
      August 2009

      Well done Amy! am a westerner from Oz but too often recires get "dumbed down" to suit the "western palate" Can you please advise on a genuine recipe for this marvelous paste?

      Many thanks

      Colin

    • Matt
      May 2009

      Thanks for keeping the pretenders honest Amy!

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