Thai Green Chicken Curry

by Cherrypick
Star 4.3
    10m prep time
    40m total time
    Easy level
    13 ingredients

Don't call the local takeaway – impress friends and family by cooking this fragrant and creamy Thai green chicken curry. It's easy and quick to make.

Method

Based on 6 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Put the new potatoes, cut into chunks, in a pan of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes.

Step 2

Add the trimmed and halved green beans and cook for a further 3 minutes, by which time both should be just tender but not too soft. Drain and put to one side.

Step 3

In a wok or large frying pan, heat 1 tbsp (if cooking for 4) vegetable or sunflower oil until very hot, then drop in chopped garlic clove and cook until golden, this should take only a few seconds. Don’t let it go very dark or it will spoil the taste.

Step 4

Spoon in Thai green curry paste and stir it around for a few seconds to begin to cook the spices and release all the flavours.

Step 5

Next, pour in the coconut milk and let it come to a bubble.

Step 6

Stir in Thai fish sauce and caster sugar, then the bite-size chicken pieces. Turn the heat down to a simmer and cook, covered, for about 8 minutes until the chicken is cooked.

Step 7

Meanwhile, get the rice cooking according to the instructions on the back of the packet.

Step 8

Tip the potatoes and beans into the frying pan and let them warm through in the hot coconut milk, then add 2 finely shredded kaffir lime leaves (or 3 wide strips lime zest).

Step 9

Add a good handful basil leaves, but only leave them briefly on the heat or they will quickly lose their brightness.

Step 10

Scatter with lime to garnish and serve immediately with boiled rice.
  • Ingredients
  • Based on 6 servings
  • 2 tsp Thai Fish Sauce 1 x Blue Dragon Fish Sauce 150ml
  • 1 tbsp Vegetable Or Sunflower Oil 1 x Sainsbury's Vegetable Oil 1L
  • good handful of Basil Leaves 1 x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Basil 30g
  • 360g Rice, to serve 2 x Ben's Original Classic Basmati Microwave Rice 220g
  • 100g Green Beans, trimmed and halved 1 x Sainsbury's Fine Green Beans 200g
  • 1 rounded tbsp Thai Green Curry Paste 1 x Blue Dragon Thai Green Curry Paste Pot 50g
  • 1 tsp Caster Sugar 1 x Sainsbury's White Caster Sugar 500g
  • 1 Garlic Clove, chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Garlic
  • 400ml can Coconut Milk 1 x Sainsbury's Coconut Milk 400ml
  • 2 Lime, to serve 2 x Sainsbury's Limes x1
  • 2 Fresh Kaffir Lime Leaves, finely shredded, or 3 wide strips lime zest, plus extra to garnish 1 x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Lime Leaves x4
  • 225g New Potatoes, cut into chunks 1 x Sainsbury's Baby Potatoes 1kg
  • 450g Boneless Skinless Chicken, (breasts or thighs), cut into bite-size pieces 1 x Sainsbury's 640g British Fresh Skinless & Boneless Chicken Thigh Fillets
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