Thai Green Chicken Curry Recipes

THAI GREEN CURRY WITH CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oil in a wok until it starts to shimmer. Add curry paste, garlic, and ginger; stir together and fry until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add chicken breast slices, stirring until coated. Cook until just slightly pink in the center, 3 to 5 minutes.
• While chicken is cooking, place baby corn and bamboo shots in a small saucepan, cover with water, and place over high heat. Bring to a boil. Drain then cover with water again.
• Pour coconut milk into the wok. Bring to a slow simmer, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Drain corn and bamboo shoots and add in. Stir in fish sauce, palm sugar, and kaffir lime leaves. Bring back up to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in bell pepper strips and cook until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes.
• Remove curry from heat and stir in Thai basil.

THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Put 225g new potatoes, cut into chunks, in a pan of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add 100g trimmed and halved green beans and cook for a further 3 minutes, by which time both should be just tender but not too soft. Drain and put to one side.
• In a wok or large frying pan, heat 1 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil until very hot, then drop in 1 chopped garlic clove and cook until golden, this should take only a few seconds. Don't let it go very dark or it will spoil the taste.
• Spoon in 1 rounded tbsp Thai green curry paste and stir it around for a few seconds to begin to cook the spices and release all the flavours.
• Next, pour in a 400ml can of coconut milk and let it come to a bubble.
• Stir in 2 tsp Thai fish sauce and 1 tsp caster sugar, then 450g bite-size chicken pieces. Turn the heat down to a simmer and cook, covered, for about 8 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
• Tip in the potatoes and beans and let them warm through in the hot coconut milk, then add 2 finely shredded lime leaves (or 3 wide strips lime zest).
• Add a good handful basil leaves, but only leave them briefly on the heat or they will quickly lose their brightness.
• Scatter with lime to garnish and serve immediately with boiled rice.

THAI GREEN CURRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Toss chicken first in 1 tablespoon dark soy sauce, then in the flour, coating pieces evenly. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Place chicken in the skillet, cook and stir chicken until browned, about 5 minutes. Remove chicken.
• Reduce heat to medium and stir in curry paste. Cook for 1 minute until fragrant, then stir in green onions, garlic, and ginger; cook an additional 2 minutes. Return chicken to the skillet, stirring to coat with the curry mixture. Stir the coconut milk, fish sauce, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, and sugar into the chicken-curry mixture. Allow to simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes until the chicken is tender. Serve garnished with cilantro leaves.

EASY THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Scrape the thick, fatty part of the coconut milk into a warm wok. Cook it slowly, stirring all the time, until it starts to bubble and sizzle and just begins to split. Add the green curry paste and cook for 3-4 mins until the paste starts to release the true smell of South-east Asia.
• Add the chicken and stir well, coating it all in the paste. Add the rest of the coconut milk, lime leaves, lemongrass, galangal, palm sugar and half the fish sauce. Let the sauce bubble for about 10 mins, until the oil in the coconut milk starts to come through to the surface and the chicken is cooked. Add the pea aubergines and the rest of the fish sauce and cook for 5 mins more. Scatter on the Thai basil and serve with some jasmine rice.

GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Cook rice according to package instructions. Meanwhile, place cornstarch in a small bowl; whisk in 2 to 3 tablespoons chicken broth until smooth (reserve remaining broth). Set aside.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium. Add green beans and onion; cook, tossing frequently, until they begin to soften, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Add curry paste to green beans and onion in skillet. Cook, stirring and scraping bottom of skillet, until paste is slightly darkened, 3 to 4 minutes. Add chicken, coconut milk, cornstarch mixture, and reserved chicken broth. Simmer until vegetables are tender and sauce is slightly thickened, 5 to 8 minutes.
• Add basil and lime juice. Season with salt, and stir to combine; serve over rice.

THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Carefully spoon about 1 cup of the thick cream from one can of coconut milk.
• Place the coconut cream and curry paste in a large Dutch oven and bring to a simmer over high heat, whisking to blend, about 2 minutes.
• Maintain this brisk simmer and whisk frequently until almost all of the liquid evaporates, 3-5 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to medium-high and whisk constantly until the cream separates into a puddle of colored oil and coconut solids, 3-8 minute.(You should hear the curry paste start to fry in the oil).
• Continue cooking until the curry paste is very aromatic.
• Whisk in the remaining coconut milk, the fish sauce, and the brown sugar.
• Bring back to a brisk simmer and cook until the flavors meld and the sauce thickens, about 5 minute.
• Season chicken with salt and add it to the pot, stirring until the pieces are separated and evenly coated with the sauce.
• Stir in the mushrooms and the bamboo shoots and bring back to a brisk simmer over medium heat.
• Cook until chicken is cooked through.
• Stir in bell pepper and cook until crisp-tender. Off the heat, stir in the lime juice and basil. Serve immediately with rice.

THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Heat oil in large saucepan over medium heat. Add shallots and curry paste; stir until shallots soften, about 2 minutes. Add coconut milk and fish sauce; bring to boil. Add chicken and bell pepper; stir until chicken is just cooked through. Stir in chopped basil and lime juice. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Divide curry among bowls. Garnish with basil sprigs and lime wedges.
• * Available in the Asian foods section of many supermarkets and at Asian markets.

THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• In a food processor, add the coriander, lemon grass, fish sauce, chilies and sesame oil. Process for 3 minutes or until the mixture forms a smooth paste.
• Heat the remaining olive oil in a large saute pan, add the paste and curry leaves, cook for 3 minutes or until fragrant.
• Add the coconut milk and 1 cup water; simmer gently for 10 minutes, add chicken and simmer for an additional 10 minutes or until tender.
• Stir in the egg and cook for 3 to 4 minutes or until heated through. Spoon onto a bed of steamed rice or noodles and garnish with the coriander leaves.