Thai Red Chicken Curry

Thai Red Chicken Curry

At last! A new post 🙂 Life has been keeping me very busy. I do hope you’ve all been well, while I’ve been gone.

I thought I’d kick-start the blogging with a recipe that came highly recommended to me. When Irene was visiting her friend last week (the lovely Lisa), she was treated to a gorgeous Thai Red Chicken Curry. Irene sent me a pic of her dinner and I immediately demanded the recipe!

The recipe is adapted from Tesco Real Food, but I made two or three small changes to the quantities. You know me… I can’t leave well alone!

I’ve only ever made one other curry for the blog (the delectable Murgh Masala); I really must make more. Any curry recommendations?

Here’s how I did it:

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Ingredients (Serves 4)

  • 1 x tbsp vegetable oil
  • 500g x chicken breast, chopped into bite-sized chunks
  • 2 x onions, diced
  • 3 x garlic cloves, minced
  • 1 x red pepper, diced
  • 1 x stalk fresh lemongrass, bashed to within an inch of its life
  • 2 x tbsp ginger (mines was from a jar)
  • 1 x 400g can coconut milk
  • 1 x chicken stock cube, dissolved in 150ml boiled water (I will change to 75ml next time, for a thicker sauce)
  • 3 x tbsp Thai Red Curry Paste (I used Blue Dragon)
  • 1 x tbsp light soy sauce (again, I used Blue Dragon)
  • 4 x tbsp fresh coriander, chopped (this is twice the recommended amount, but I LOVE coriander)
  • Extra chopped coriander to garnish

 

It’s a good idea to get everything prepared before you start cooking (you’ll thank me for this later). Once you’ve bashed the lemongrass, take a good sniff. It’s sooooooo lovely.

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First, I browned the chicken for five minutes, then added the onion. I gently fried for a few minutes, then added the minced garlic (the garlic can burn easily, so I don’t plonk it in at the same time as the onion).

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Next, I added the red pepper, lemon grass, ginger, coconut milk and Thai Red Curry Paste.

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I then added the soy sauce and chicken stock, gave everything a good stir, then brought it to the boil. Once boiling, I reduced to a simmer for 25 mins. When there was 15 mins to go, I boiled some rice to go with it.

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And it’s ready! I removed the lemongrass and served with the rice. I sprinkled some fresh coriander over it, et voilà! A delicious Thai Red Chicken Curry for thee.

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I found there was a lot of sauce left over, so will use only 75ml stock next time, instead of 150ml. In saying that, it didn’t go to waste! I took it over to Mum’s and she had it with some rice. She said it was “lovely and fresh”.

 

This is a perfect midweek meal, as it only takes 30-45 mins to make. It’s one of those dishes that looks fancy and as though you’d went to loads of effort: perfect for impressing that someone special

 

Give it a go and let me know what you think!

 

Enjoy 🙂 x


2 Comments

  1. Phil in the Kitchen

    That’s a lovely and thankfully fairly simple curry – the sort of thing I could put together midweek. For some reason quite a lot of recipes seem to have a lot of sauce left over. If I get excess sauce, I tend to use it as a base for a quick soup. I still enjoy home-made biryani (so much better than restaurants) and I’ve recently been making some seriously hot curries cooked in yoghurt, for some reason.

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