My sauce was very good but a little too thick so I cut down on
the peanuts and reduced the coconut milk to the standard size
400ml can. It works out to roughly 0.5L for 2 small servings
or 1 generous serving (if you're a total pig).

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Panda Peanut Sauce #2

Raw Unsalted Peanuts: 100 g
Coconut Milk: 400 cc
Red Curry Paste: 20 cc !
Fish Sauce: 20 cc !
Soy Paste: 5 cc !
Olive Oil: 10 cc
Turbinado Sugar: 15 cc ~
Lime Juice: 25 cc +
Lemongrass chopped: 3 g ~
Ginger chopped: 3 g ~

Sautee peanuts in pan with oil until lightly-browned.
Cool peanuts as the heat may curdle the coconut milk.
Puree half to two-thirds of peanuts with coconut milk.
Add remaining peanuts and chop to desired consistency.

Heat slowly and stir often and as you're doing that add
the base amounts of curry paste, fish sauce, lime
juice, lemongrass, ginger, galanga, and sugar and
after simmering a moment taste and decide whether to
add more curry paste and add extra very carefully.

Then the fish sauce is good but extremely salty so add
extra very carefully and if you want add soy sauce or
paste but be very careful or it gets way too salty.

Finally slowly add extra lemongrass, ginger, galangal,
lime juice to taste (and Kaffir lime leaf if you can
find it), but remember those ingredients are also in
the red curry paste.

Output --> 500cc for $2.00

Oh, and for those who aren't into the simplicity of
metric, 5cc is one teaspoon. 100g of peanuts seems
to be slightly over 3/4 cup, and almost anything that
is moist with oil or liquid and chopped is roughly
1g per 1/4 teaspoon. Metric makes experimental
cooking SOOO much easier. I need to invest in a good
scale (instead of my mini "postal" scale) and a
metric measuring cup/spoon set.

Finally, the magic red curry paste and the ingredients
on the label complete with percentages (which is why
metric is so useful):

Maesri Brand Red Curry Paste
114g (4oz) can
Mamprik Maesri Ltd.
Thailand

Chili 35%, Garlic 23%, Shallot 20%, Salt 7%,
Lemongrass 6%, Spices 5%, Sugar 3%, Galangal 1%

One $0.75 can of this paste found at Lion should be
enough for at least 4 of the above portions, for
an output of 2L peanut sauce.

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