Thai Green Curry with Chicken

Spice Up Dinner with This Thai Dish!

Sophie Stillwell
Sophie Stillwell, Yahoo! Contributor Network
Jan 26, 2011 "Share your voice on Yahoo! websites. Start Here."
Thai Green Curry with Chicken is a great meal year round. It also reheats very well.
Category
Main Dish
Cuisine
Thai
Main Ingredients
Quick and Easy
Prep Time
 10 min
Cook Time
 25 min
Total Time
 35 min

Ingredients

Serves 4
1/2 lb boneless chicken (cubed)
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
two 13.5 oz cans coconut milk (reserve 1/2 cup for marinade)
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 tsp kosher salt
1 tsp turmeric
2 onions, sliced thin
3 minced garlic cloves
1 tbsp minced ginger
2 to 4 tbsp oil
2 to 4 tbsp green curry paste
1.5 tsp brown sugar
3 tbsp fish sauce
2 tsp lime zest
8 oz can water chestnuts, drained and diced
1/2 cup peanut butter (preferably no salt or sugar or oil added)
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Directions for Thai Green Curry with Chicken

1
Marinade
Combine lime, pepper, salt, tumeric, 1/2 cup coconut milk in dish or ziploc bag. Add cubed chicken, stir to coat, and marinade in refridgerator for 2 hours or up to 24 hours.
2
Curry
Heat a large pan over med-high heat. Add oil, and when hot, add onions, garlic, ginger, and curry paste. Stir and cook until onions start to get soft, then add chicken cubes and marinade to pan. Stir and cook until chicken is surface cooked (does not need to be cooked through). Add remaining coconut milk, palm sugar, fish sauce, and lime zest and bring to a simmer for 10-15 minutes (make sure palm sugar has dissolved). Stir in peanut butter until well combined and return to simmer. Add water chestnuts, stir well, and serve over steamed brown rice or rice noodles.
Tip
Thai green curry is well known among curry enthusiasts for its smoothness and surprising peanut-y flavor. This dish may seem a little complicated, but it takes very little time to prepare as long as you have all of your ingredients assembled ahead of time.The key to flavorful Thai green curry with chicken is the marinade for the chicken meat. Although you can skip this step in a hurry, it will lead to a dish with a little less oomph. The chicken can be substituted with seitan or extra-firm tofu and the fish sauce can be omitted (add a pinch of salt instead) to make this delicious Thai green curry dish vegan-friendly.

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