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Green Chicken Curry
Ingredients
- thai
- 1 tsp black peppercorns
- 35 x fresh green chillies seeded and minced
- 1 x cm piece thai ginger (kha) or possibly 2 tsp. laos pwdr
- 3 Tbsp. minced coriander leaves roots and stems
- 2 lrg clv garlic
- 3 Tbsp. minced spring onions (green and white parts)
- 1 x lemon grass root roughly minced
- 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
- 400 ml coconut cream
- 4 x kaffir lime leaves
- 850 gm boneless chicken
- 1 sm bunch fresh basil leaves
- 1 Tbsp. fish sauce
Directions
- Grind coriander and peppercorns to a pwdr in a spice grinder or possibly mortar.
- Add in the fresh seasonings (chillies ginger coriander garlic spring onions and lemon grass) and grind to a paste.
- Fry this seasoning paste in a medium saucepan with the vegetable oil for 3 min.
- Add in the coconut cream and lime leaves and simmer for 10 min.
- Cut the chicken into 2cm cubes.
- Add in to the sauce with 1 c. water and simmer till tee chicken is tender about 20 min.
- Pick basil leaves from the stems.
- Add in basil fish sauce and salt to the curry to taste.
- Serve over rice.
- Hint. Buy an inexpensive electric coffee grinder to use exclusively for grinding spices.
- Serves 6
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