Recipe: Eating on a Dime Thai Red Chicken Curry

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Thai Red Chicken Curry. This is a quick and easy curry stir-fry made with chicken, zucchini, red bell pepper and carrot. Coconut milk and curry paste make an irresistible sauce. Combine the first five ingredients in a large skillet.

In developing the recipe, the biggest challenge was figuring out the best way to cook the chicken.

There are a few ingredients you'll need to ensure you get the most flavor out of this curry; coconut milk, Thai red curry paste, kaffir lime leaves and lemongrass.

I can find them all at my local grocery store, but I've provided you with links on the ingredients to get the products on amazon if you cannot.

You can cook Thai Red Chicken Curry using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Thai Red Chicken Curry

  1. Prepare 1-2 tbsp of red curry paste.

  2. It’s 2 of chicken breasts, meat cut into about 2.5 cm cubes or strips.

  3. It’s 400 ml of tin coconut milk.

  4. You need 2 of lime leaves (optional).

  5. Prepare 2-3 tbsp of Thai fish sauce.

  6. It’s 1-2 tbsp of palm sugar.

  7. Prepare handful of green beans, trimmed.

  8. You need 1 of smaill tin bamboo shoots.

  9. It’s 1/2 of red pepper.

  10. Prepare 1-2 handful of basil leaves.

  11. It’s 2-3 of fresh red chilies, finely sliced (optional).

  12. It’s of To serve.

  13. Prepare of Thai fragrant rice, cooked according to packet instructions.

A Thai Red Curry with Chicken is one of the world's most popular curries!

Make this with store bought curry paste (we give it a freshness boost) OR homemade red curry paste (the fresh flavour can't be beaten!).

Thai Red Curry with Chicken and Squash (Kaeng Phed) Thai Red Curry is a spicy, savory, coconut-based curry made with lemongrass, galangal, and dried red chili peppers.

This recipe includes the option to make your own curry paste from scratch or use store-bought for an easy weeknight meal.

Thai Red Chicken Curry instructions

  1. Heat a couple of tbsp. of coconut milk in a wok over a high heat until coconut milk starts to bubbly. Add the red curry paste and stir fry for 1-2 minutes, or until fragrant..

  2. Add the chicken cubes/strips and stir until coated in the curry paste..

  3. Continue to stir-fry for 1-2 minutes, or until the chicken has browned on all sides..

  4. Add the coconut milk, lime leaves, fish sauce and sugar and stir well. Bring the mixture to the boil, then reduce the heat until the mixture is simmering..

  5. Continue to simmer for 8-10 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened and you see beautiful red oil separated from the coconut milk..

  6. Add the green beans, bamboo shoot, red pepper and continue to simmer for 2-3 minutes, stirring regularly, until just tender. Add some basil leaves and chopped chilies at the last minute and stir well..

  7. Serve with Thai jasmine rice and ENJOY!.

Why this Thai red curry chicken is so good!

Sere it with cauliflower rice for a low carb meal.

Thai curry is an authentic Thai cuisine which is prepared with different types of curry pastes.

Thai red curry or green Thai Curry get their name from the color of the curry paste used in preparing.

Other then these two curries , there are other kinds of Thai curries too. like Jungle curry, Massamam, Panang Curry ,Thai Red Chicken Curry etc.