Thai Yellow Chicken Curry with Brown Rice

Thai Yellow Chicken Curry with Brown Rice

Ready in 35 minutes Serves 5
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, July 28, 2019.

Ingredients

Brown Rice

  • 1 1/2 cups brown rice
  • 2 1/4 cups water

Curry

  • 1 brown onion
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 courgette
  • 1 pack chicken breasts
  • 1 clove garlic, minced
  • 1/2 piece ginger, grated
  • 1 pack yellow curry paste
  • 400ml coconut milk
  • 1/4 cup chicken stock
  • 250g frozen peas
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1 tsp sugar

To Serve

  • 1/2 lemon

Steps

  1. Cook rice Combine rice, water measure and a pinch of salt in a small pot and bring to the boil. Once boiling, cover with a lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 15 minutes. Turn off heat and steam, covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. Prep veggies and chicken Finely dice onion; cut carrot in half lengthways and thinly slice; thinly slice courgette; pat chicken dry and slice into 1cm strips. Set aside separately.
  3. Start curry Heat a drizzle of oil in a pot on medium-high heat and cook onion, for 3-4 minutes, until soft. Add garlic and ginger and cook stirring for a further minute, until fragrant.
  4. Add chicken and veggies Add chicken and curry paste to pot with veggies and cook for about 2 minutes, until fragrant. Add coconut milk and stock and bring a gentle boil. Once boiling, add carrot, reduce heat to medium and cook for 2 minutes. Add courgette and peas and cook for 3 minutes further, until tender.
  5. To finish Stir lemon juice and sugar through curry. Season to taste with fish sauce. Cut remaining lemon into wedges.
  6. Serve rice and curry with a lemon wedge. Sprinkle with chilli flakes for adults.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2517 kj
602 kcal
Protein 35.8g
Carbohydrate 46.7g
Fat 28.8g