Coconut Curry Rooster affords a taste explosion of creamy, salty goodness. Serve it over rice or eat it straight from the pot with a spoon, we gained’t choose. With scrumptious Thai flavors, this dish is a consolation meal that doesn’t sit heavy and is bound to be requested many times.
Attempt our recipes for Thai Purple Shrimp Curry and Rooster 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 superbly with different spices.
What will we love most about this Simple Coconut Curry recipe? It’s so easy to arrange with substances which will already be in your pantry, and it’s crammed with tons of spices, tender hen, and creamy coconut milk. It’s additionally a dish that you may get artistic with, by including much more recent greens or rising the feel with the great 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
- Onion: White affords a milder onion taste than its pal the yellow onion, however you would nonetheless use yellow.
- Purple Bell Pepper: You would go along with one other coloration 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 possibly can 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 often a strong selection.
- Turmeric: A part of the ginger household, and offers every thing it touches a lovely golden coloration.
- Coriander: Curry’s neglected BFF, provides a stunning freshness that provides the curry a deeper and extra balanced taste.
- Rooster Breasts: Lower into bite-size items. You would additionally use boneless skinless hen thighs with out altering cooking occasions.
- Rooster Broth: Use a low-sodium hen broth to raised management the flavour and salt content material.
- Coconut Milk: The total-fat model offers 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 bought in a bottle.
- Fish Sauce: Essential in balancing the flavors of all of the spices, and gives 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: In the event you’re one of many fortunate of us who can style cilantro as an alternative of the ‘soapy’ taste some folks describe, then sprinkling recent cilantro excessive provides a distinctly recent, citrusy, and barely spicy style.
Coconut Milk Choices
Use full-fat coconut milk for the most effective coconut taste and the creamiest outcomes. In the event you’re in search of a lighter choice, you possibly can substitute low-fat coconut milk when you want, however your dish gained’t be as thick. Repair this by including half a tablespoon of cornstarch blended with a tablespoon of water to thicken the sauce.
You may as well substitute coconut cream for coconut milk. They’re virtually all the time interchangeable. Not surprisingly, coconut cream will make your Simple Coconut Curry much more thick and wealthy.
Fish Sauce Substitutes
Fish sauce affords a taste profile not like every other! 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 robust, nevertheless, so we suggest including within the recipe quantity after which tasting the sauce earlier than including any extra.
In the event you actually don’t wish to use fish sauce, or when you have an allergy, you possibly can strive 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)
How Spicy Are We Speaking?
Thai curry is historically served spicy, however ours registers proper between gentle and medium, and the coconut milk does deliver 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. In the event you 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 putting the leftovers in a pot or skillet over medium-low warmth. Stir sometimes till heated by, about 10-Quarter-hour.
Reheat within the microwave by putting a portion in a microwave-safe dish. Warmth in 30-second increments, stirring in between for even heating.
We don’t suggest Freezing this dish. Coconut milk can tackle a humorous texture when reheated from frozen.
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