green chicken curry it favored dish from central Thailand. There are lots of spices and herbs in the curry but is good thing of cooking curry, you can make it spicy or not spicy. if you are one of the person that can not eat spicy, you just have to put less of the curry paste. In the old time these curry would be prepared by hand, Luckily today that not necessary, Local Asian supermarkets stock green curry paste all ready to use.
Ingredients
- 300 grams chicken
- 3 tbsp green curry paste
- 1/2 eggplant, cut into bite-sized or sweet peas (You can use the bamboo shot is really work well with the green curry too.)
- 1 cup coconut cream
- 1 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1/4 cup sweet basil
- 2 kaffir lime leaves
- 1tbsp. sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp. fish sauce
- 1 tbsp. cooking oil
- 1 shreddedred spur chilli for garnish
Preparation
- Cut the chicken in the long, thin slices, mix 1/2 tsp. salt, and fry until dry.
- Fry chilli paste with oil until fragrant, reduce heat, add coconut cream a little at a time, and cook with stirring until coconut cream begins to have an oily sheen
- Add the chicken and torn kaffir lime leaves and cook a short time, then dip the curry into a pot. add the coconut milk and the sugar and fish sauce, and heat. When boiling ,add the eggplant or peas. When boiling done, add the sweet basil and remove from heat. Garnish with chilli.
