Straightforward Coconut Curry Hen – The Keep At Residence Chef

Coconut Curry Hen provides a taste explosion of creamy, salty goodness. Serve it over rice or eat it straight from the pot with a spoon, we gained’t decide. 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 simple, 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 fantastically with different spices.

An overhead view looking into a pot of coconut chicken curry.

What can we love most about this Straightforward Coconut Curry recipe? It’s so easy to organize with elements which will already be in your pantry, and it’s stuffed with tons of spices, tender rooster, and creamy coconut milk. It’s additionally a dish which you could get inventive with, by including much more contemporary greens or growing 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 chunk.

Ingredient Notes

An overhead picture of all the ingredients needed, measured out in measuring spoons and bowls, surrounding a plate of raw chicken and whole fresh vegetables.An overhead picture of all the ingredients needed, measured out in measuring spoons and bowls, surrounding a plate of raw chicken and whole fresh vegetables.
  • Onion: White provides a milder onion taste than its buddy the yellow onion, however you can nonetheless use yellow.
  • Crimson Bell Pepper: You possibly can go along with one other colour like orange or yellow that’s additionally candy. Inexperienced is suitable however is lacking that sweeter taste.
  • Garlic: Apart from making your kitchen scent wonderful 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’re in search of a yellow curry powder they usually aren’t all created equal. Utilizing a name-brand curry powder is normally a stable selection.
  • Turmeric: A part of the ginger household, and offers all the pieces it touches a phenomenal golden colour.
  • Coriander: Curry’s ignored BFF, provides a stunning freshness that offers the curry a deeper and extra balanced taste.
  • Hen Breasts: Reduce into bite-size items. You possibly can additionally use boneless skinless rooster thighs with out altering cooking instances.
  • Hen Broth: Use a low-sodium rooster broth to raised management the flavour and salt content material.
  • Coconut Milk: The total-fat model provides a stronger coconut taste than a lighter choice or coconut milk drink.
  • Asian Chili Garlic Sauce: You discover this within the part of your grocery retailer with different Asian meals. It’s typically even close to the canned coconut milk. It’s offered in a bottle.
  • Fish Sauce: Essential in balancing the flavors of all of the spices, and offers 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 greatest, however the bottled stuff works too.
  • Cilantro: If you happen to’re one of many fortunate people who can style cilantro as an alternative of the ‘soapy’ taste some folks describe, then sprinkling contemporary cilantro excessive provides a distinctly contemporary, citrusy, and barely spicy style.

Coconut Milk Choices

Use full-fat coconut milk for the most effective coconut taste and the creamiest outcomes. If you happen to’re in search of a lighter choice, you may substitute low-fat coconut milk for those who favor, however your dish gained’t be as thick. Repair this by including half a tablespoon of cornstarch combined with a tablespoon of water to thicken the sauce.

You may also 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 gained’t remorse utilizing it! Fish sauce is powerful, nonetheless, so we advocate including within the recipe quantity after which tasting the sauce earlier than including any extra.

If you happen to actually don’t wish to use fish sauce, or when you’ve got an allergy, you may attempt certainly one 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 components)
  • Minced Anchovies
  • Soy sauce and lime juice (equal components)
A bowl filled with rice and coconut chicken curry, with a fork lifting a bite out.A bowl filled with rice and coconut chicken curry, with a fork lifting a bite out.

How Spicy Are We Speaking?

Thai curry is historically served spicy, however ours registers proper between gentle and medium, and the coconut milk does carry 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. If you happen to 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 inserting the leftovers in a pot or skillet over medium-low warmth. Stir often till heated by way of, about 10-Quarter-hour.

Reheat within the microwave by inserting a portion in a microwave-safe dish. Warmth in 30-second increments, stirring in between for even heating.

We don’t advocate Freezing this dish. Coconut milk can tackle a humorous texture when reheated from frozen.

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Watch the video beneath the place Caytlin will stroll you thru each step of this recipe. Typically it helps to have a visible, and we’ve all the time acquired you coated with our very personal cooking present.

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