Fish Potato Yellow Curry (Gaeng Leuang Pla) - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    4 tiny new potatoes, halved
    2 small sweet potatoes, cut in 3cm pieces
    400 ml coconut milk
    2 tablespoons yellow curry paste
    60 ml fish stock or 60 ml vegetable stock
    2 tablespoons fish sauce
    1 tablespoon lime juice
    1 teaspoon dark brown sugar
    1/2 teaspoon molasses
    1/2 teaspoon maple syrup
    800 g firm white fish fillets, cut into pieces
    4 green onions, thinly sliced
    1 stalk lemongrass (optional)
    1/3 cup coriander, coarsely chopped
    1 long red Thai chile, seeded, sliced thinly
    1 tablespoon fresh coriander leaves
Preparation
    Cook potatoes.
    In a large pan bring half the coconut milk to a boil. Boil, stir occasionally, until it has reduced by halve and the oil separates from the coconut milk.
    Now add the curry paste, cook for about 1 Minute. Add remaining coconut milk, stock sauce, juice, (Lemon grass if using it), sugar, molasses and maple syrup; cook and stir until sugar is dissolve.
    Add fish and cooked potatoes to the pan: cook, and stir occasionally (3 minutes).Remove lemon grass,stir in onion and coriander.*.
    Place curry in a serving bowl;sprinkle with sliced chili and coriander leaves.
    Enjoy!
    *Note to self - Don't add the fish until shortly before serving this curry; if overcooked, it can either disintegrate or toughen.

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