Southern Thai Yellow Crab Curry | Marion's Kitchen

Name: Southern Thai Yellow Crab Curry | Marion's Kitchen
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 1 x 400ml can coconut milk; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tbsp palm sugar; 300g (10.5 oz) crab meat; 1 cup betel leaves, Thai basil leaves or Italian basil leaves*; cooked vermicelli noodles, to serve; Curry paste; 15 dried birds’ eyechillies; 2 coriander (cilantro) roots; 2 stalks lemongrass; 4cm (1.5in) piece galangal, peeled and roughly chopped; 4cm (1.5in) piece ginger, peeled and roughly chopped; 3 garlic cloves; 2 small red Asian shallots, roughly chopped; 2 makrut lime leaves, destemmed and roughly chopped; 1 tsp shrimp paste; 1 tsp ground cumin; 1 tsp ground coriander; 1 tsp sea salt; 1 tsp turmeric