This post is brought to you by Anjali Shah, creator of The Picky Eater blog. Anjali creates and writes about healthy food that she claims is “husband approved.”

The husband loves Thai Yellow Curry. It’s pretty much guaranteed that when we visit a Thai restaurant, he will order some form of curry: Yellow, Panang, Red, and occasionally Green. He’ll never order a stir fry or noodles, although he does like Pad Thai from time to time.

I love curry too.

But, I usually order stir frys at Thai restaurants because the curries are SO heavy and full of cream and oil.

So of course my mission became: to makeover Thai Yellow Curry in our kitchen – making it healthier but still “husband approved” and restaurant quality!

My main healthy swaps included:

• Light coconut milk instead of regular
• TONS of spices instead of cream/oil
• TONS of veggies for great texture

Thai Yellow Curry with Veggies, Cashews and Tofu

Ingredients

• 2- 3 cups light coconut milk ( about 20 oz)
• 3- 4 tablespoons high quality curry powder (I like the one from Trader Joe’s)
• 1/2 teaspoon fine grain sea salt ( or more to taste)
• 1 large red onion, chopped
• 3- 5 medium garlic cloves, chopped (adjust the amount of garlic based on how spicy you like it)
• 8 ounces firm tofu, cut into small cubes
• Veggies: 2 heads of broccoli , 1 pound asparagus – chopped, 1 yellow pepper, thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup chopped cashews, toasted
• a handful of cilantro, loosely chopped (optional – I like cilantro but the husband doesn’t, so I omitted this)
• 1/8- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper (if you like things spicy)
• Cumin, cardamom and pepper ( to taste – I used about 1 tsp cumin, a sprinkling of cardamom, and a pinch of pepper)
• Brown rice for serving

Directions