Thai Food - which is hottest, red or green curry ?

Question

Is there a standard answer for this or is up to the cook to add whatever spices he/she chooses to the basic red or green curry sauce in order to achieve the amount of 'heat' required?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Red curry definatly.  I made thai green curry the other day and it was just right.       But sometimes it depends on how much they put in and also, people have different tastes so some people may think the green is the spiciest.,

Hope that help ;*#

Answer 2

it does hav a standard but the amount also changed a bit according 2 each chef

Answer 3

Green is much hot

Answer 4

green curry

Answer 5

It may seem counter-intuitive, but the green sauce is MUCH hotter than the red sauce. If you taste the two side by side, the red sauce will taste mild and sweet by comparison (I know, I've tried both). Overall, Thai food is too spicy for my tastes.

Answer 6

In Thailand there following types of curry:

*Thai Green Curry Recipe

*Easy Green Curry

*Red Curry with Chicken & Bamboo Shoots

*Traditional Red Curry

*Red Duck Curry

*Sour Chicken Curry Recipe

*Yellow Chicken Curry (Gaeng Karee Gy)

*Fish Curry

*Kasma's Spicy Choo Chee Curry       with                               Prawns/Scallops & Mushrooms

*Red Curry with Beef

and in them, Green Curry is spicy, Red Curry is medium spicy, Yellow Curry is mild and Masaman Curry is more sweet.

Answer 7

If I remember correctly, green curry is hotter than red; but all-in-all it's up to the chef. (Penang tastes the best though, imo)

Answer 8

Thai curry broadly falls into red, green, yellow, Panaeng & Massaman curry dishes. There's also less well known ones like Hang Lay.

To most people, they'll answer that red curry is hotter than green. Maybe it's the association of red with fire and green with coolness. There is no such guarantee. I've eaten green curries that are as hot or hotter than red ones, it's all up to the cook. You can easily increase the spiciness of any curry, change any wimpy curry into one that blows your head off, by increasing the amount of chillies/chilli powder/dried chillies used, substituting the original chilli for a hotter variety, adding chilli oil & fresh peppercorns, using more chilli seeds etc. By doing the reverse, you can likewise create a very mild curry even if it looks like boiling fresh lava (I did this once to see if anyone dared to try what their eyes saw!).