Coconut Curry Rooster provides a taste explosion of creamy, salty goodness. Serve it over rice or eat it straight from the pot with a spoon, we received’t choose. With scrumptious Thai flavors, this dish is a consolation meal that doesn’t sit heavy and is certain to be requested time and again.
Strive our recipes for Thai Red Shrimp Curry and Chicken Satay with Peanut Dipping Sauce for extra Thai-inspired flavors.
Why Our Recipe
- A straightforward, one-pot dinner that takes lower than an hour.
- Tasty Thai flavors that make you seem like a culinary genius.
- Curry that isn’t overpowering, however blended superbly with different spices.
What can we love most about this Straightforward Coconut Curry recipe? It’s so easy to arrange with elements that will already be in your pantry, and it’s full of tons of spices, tender hen, and creamy coconut milk. It’s additionally a dish which you could get artistic with, by including much more recent greens or rising the feel with the good crunch of cashews or peanuts. This dish will fill your kitchen with mouth-watering aromas that may be tasted in each single chew.
Ingredient Notes
- Onion: White provides a milder onion taste than its buddy the yellow onion, however you may nonetheless use yellow.
- Crimson Bell Pepper: You may go together with one other shade like orange or yellow that’s additionally candy. Inexperienced is appropriate however is lacking that sweeter taste.
- Garlic: Moreover making your kitchen odor superb when it’s being sauteed? It enhances the depth of the spice flavors.
- Ginger: Ginger powder is a way more muted model of this taste, however you may nonetheless use it in a pinch.
- Curry: You might be in search of a yellow curry powder and so they aren’t all created equal. Utilizing a name-brand curry powder is often a strong selection.
- Turmeric: A part of the ginger household, and offers all the things it touches an exquisite golden shade.
- Coriander: Curry’s ignored BFF, provides a stunning freshness that offers the curry a deeper and extra balanced taste.
- Rooster Breasts: Reduce into bite-size items. You may additionally use boneless skinless hen thighs with out altering cooking occasions.
- Rooster Broth: Use a low-sodium hen broth to higher management the flavour and salt content material.
- Coconut Milk: The total-fat model offers a stronger coconut taste than a lighter possibility or coconut milk drink.
- Asian Chili Garlic Sauce: You discover this within the part of your grocery retailer with different Asian meals. It’s usually even close to the canned coconut milk. It’s bought in a bottle.
- Fish Sauce: Essential in balancing the flavors of all of the spices, and supplies the genuine style of a Thai dish. It’s additionally discovered within the part of your grocery retailer that’s close to the Chili Garlic Sauce.
- Brown Sugar: Provides a contact of sweetness.
- Lime Juice: Contemporary is all the time finest, however the bottled stuff works too.
- Cilantro: When you’re one of many fortunate people who can style cilantro as an alternative of the ‘soapy’ taste some individuals describe, then sprinkling recent cilantro excessive provides a distinctly recent, citrusy, and barely spicy style.
Coconut Milk Choices
Use full-fat coconut milk for the very best coconut taste and the creamiest outcomes. When you’re in search of a lighter possibility, you may substitute low-fat coconut milk when you desire, however your dish received’t be as thick. Repair this by including half a tablespoon of cornstarch blended with a tablespoon of water to thicken the sauce.
You can even substitute coconut cream for coconut milk. They’re nearly all the time interchangeable. Not surprisingly, coconut cream will make your Straightforward Coconut Curry much more thick and wealthy.
Fish Sauce Substitutes
Fish sauce provides a taste profile not like another! It truly pulls the entire spices collectively making a deeper genuine Thai taste, and legitimately enhances the style of the general dish. You received’t remorse utilizing it! Fish sauce is powerful, nevertheless, so we suggest including within the recipe quantity after which tasting the sauce earlier than including any extra.
When you actually don’t need to use fish sauce, or you probably have an allergy, you may strive one in every of these as an alternative (however significantly, the depth of taste simply isn’t the identical with a substitute):
- Soy sauce
- Soy sauce and rice vinegar (equal elements)
- Minced Anchovies
- Soy sauce and lime juice (equal elements)
How Spicy Are We Speaking?
Thai curry is historically served spicy, however ours registers proper between delicate and medium, and the coconut milk does deliver down the spice degree a bit by itself.
If you wish to crank up the warmth, add extra chili garlic sauce (add half a teaspoon at a time after which style earlier than including extra) or a sprinkle of cayenne pepper. When you don’t like spicy meals in any respect, use solely 2 teaspoons of chili garlic sauce as an alternative of the complete tablespoon.
Storage Directions
Refrigerate leftovers in an hermetic container for as much as 3-4 days.
Reheat on the stovetop by putting the leftovers in a pot or skillet over medium-low warmth. Stir often till heated by, about 10-Quarter-hour.
Reheat within the microwave by putting a portion in a microwave-safe dish. Warmth in 30-second increments, stirring in between for even heating.
We don’t suggest Freezing this dish. Coconut milk can tackle a humorous texture when reheated from frozen.
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