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Yellow Chicken Curry with Thai basil

FDL
By
Fine Dining Lovers
Editorial Staff
Difficulty
Intermediate
Total Time
55MIN
Cuisine

Ingredients

Vegetable oil: 2 tbsp

Ginger: thumb size piece, fresh, peeled and grated

Garlic: 2 cloves, crushed

Lemongrass: 1 stalk, finely chopped

Curry paste: 2 tbsp, yellow

Chicken stock: 500 ml

Coconut milk: 500 ml

Limes: 1 juiced

Chicken: 2 large breasts, skinned

Sesame oil: 3 tbsp

Garlic: 3 cloves, thinly sliced

Chili pepper: 2 red, deseeded and roughly chopped

Chilli sauce: 4 tbsp, sweet

Fish sauce: 1 tbsp

Thai Basil: small bunch, leaves

Craving Thai food? Try this delicious yellow chicken curry recipe prepared with coconut milk and served with Thai basil on the top, creamy and spicy.

Method
01.
Broth

If you want to make yellow chicken curry recipe first prepare the broth: heat the vegetable oil in a large pan and gently fry the ginger, crushed garlic and lemongrass until soft but not brown.

Add the curry paste, stir for 2 minutes then pour in the stock and coconut milk.

Bring to a boil then turn the heat down and simmer gently for 15 minutes.

Add the lime juice and season with salt and pepper.

Set aside and keep warm.

02.
Chicken

Flatten the chicken breasts with a meat hammer or rolling pin.

Take a sharp knife and score one side of each chicken breast in a crisscross pattern then cut into bite-size portions.

Heat the sesame oil in a wide pan and quickly fry the sliced garlic until it starts to brown.

Add the chilli peppers and chicken, cook for 2 minutes then add the chilli sauce and fish sauce.

Continue cooking, stirring all the time, until the chicken is cooked through - you made need to add a little water.

Stir the Thai basil leaves in the yellow chicken curry and serve on top of the broth.

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