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 Heat 2 Cook 2 (4 Nights For 4) on Sunday, August 11, 2019.

Ingredients

Brown Rice

  • 2 cups brown rice
  • 3 cups water

Curry

  • 1 brown onion
  • 2 carrots
  • 1 courgette
  • 1 pack chicken breasts
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 Tbsp finely grated ginger
  • 2-3 Tbsp yellow curry paste
  • 400ml coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup chicken stock
  • 250g frozen peas
  • Juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 1 Tbsp sweet chilli sauce
  • 1 Tbsp fish sauce

Garnishes

  • 1 spring onion
  • 1/2 lemon
  • Pinch of garlic chilli blend
  • 1 pack crispy shallots

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 carrots in half lengthways and thinly slice; thinly slice courgette and spring onion. 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 1 minute further, 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 to a gentle boil. Once boiling, add carrot, reduce heat to medium and cook for 2 minutes. Add courgette and peas and cook for a further 3 minutes, until tender.
  5. To finish Stir lemon juice, sweet chilli sauce and fish sauce through curry. Cut remaining lemon into wedges.
  6. Serve rice with curry and top with garnishes.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2548 kj
609 kcal
Protein 35.1g
Carbohydrate 44.4g
Fat 31.4g