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Green Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk

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A homemade green paste of coriander, lemongrass, ginger and chile, simmered with leeks, peppers and coconut milk, then finished with soy-marinated chicken and fresh basil. Serve with rice. Adapted from “Green Chicken Curry with Coconut Milk” in the Wikibooks Cookbook (CC BY-SA 4.0). Scaled to 4 servings (600 g chicken, 2 cans of coconut milk) with less coriander seed and pepper in the paste; gave amounts for the chiles, coriander, garlic, soy sauce, oil and basil. Photo: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (“Green Curry, Kapunka Panoramas, Paris 002”).

57 min40 min hands-onServes 4Medium
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Ingredients19

4 servings

Curry paste

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Method9 steps

  1. Crush the garlic2 cloves into a bowl with the soy sauce2 tbsp, mix in the chicken600 g cubes and leave to marinate.

    5 min

  2. Chop the paste ingredients, and slice the leeks2 and peppers2.

    10 min

  3. Pound everything for the curry paste together in a mortar and pestle (or blitz it with a splash of water in a small blender) until fairly smooth.

    10 min

  4. Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a big pot and fry the curry paste for a couple of minutes until fragrant.

    2 min

  5. Add the leeks and peppers and stir for a minute, then pour in the coconut milk800 ml.

  6. Cover and simmer for 20–30 minutes.

    Hands-off

  7. Meanwhile, fry the marinated chicken in the remaining oil in a frying pan until browned and cooked through.

    8 min After step 5

  8. Add the chicken to the curry pot and season with the basil, salt and fish sauce1 tbsp to taste.

    2 min After steps 6 & 7

  9. Serve hot with rice.

    1 min
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57 min total · 40 min hands-on· saves 8 min vs. one-by-one

  1. 1
    Crush the garlic…
  2. 2
    Chop the paste ingredients…
  3. 3
    Pound everything for the curry…
  4. 4
    Heat 2 tbsp…
  5. 5
    Add the leeks and peppers…
  6. 6
    Cover and simmer
  7. 7
    Fry the marinated chicken…
  8. 8
    Add the chicken…
  9. 9
    Serve hot with rice
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By @soucrunch · Published

Thai · dairy-free · dinner

Source: en.wikibooks.org

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