Coconut Curry Hen 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 decide. With scrumptious Thai flavors, this dish is a consolation meal that doesn’t sit heavy and is certain to be requested repeatedly.
Attempt our recipes for Thai Crimson Shrimp Curry and Hen 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 appear to be a culinary genius.
- Curry that isn’t overpowering, however blended superbly with different spices.
What can 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 rooster, and creamy coconut milk. It’s additionally a dish you could get inventive with, by including much more contemporary greens or growing 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 chew.
Ingredient Notes
- Onion: White affords a milder onion taste than its good friend the yellow onion, however you could possibly nonetheless use yellow.
- Crimson Bell Pepper: You would go along with one other shade like orange or yellow that’s additionally candy. Inexperienced is appropriate however is lacking that sweeter taste.
- Garlic: Apart from making your kitchen odor 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 may nonetheless use it in a pinch.
- Curry: You’re on the lookout for a yellow curry powder they usually aren’t all created equal. Utilizing a name-brand curry powder is often a strong alternative.
- Turmeric: A part of the ginger household, and offers all the pieces it touches a lovely golden shade.
- Coriander: Curry’s neglected BFF, provides a shocking freshness that offers the curry a deeper and extra balanced taste.
- Hen Breasts: Reduce into bite-size items. You would additionally use boneless skinless rooster thighs with out altering cooking occasions.
- Hen Broth: Use a low-sodium rooster broth to higher management the flavour and salt content material.
- Coconut Milk: The complete-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 offered 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 at all times finest, however the bottled stuff works too.
- Cilantro: For those who’re one of many fortunate of us who can style cilantro as a substitute of the ‘soapy’ taste some individuals describe, then sprinkling contemporary cilantro excessive provides a distinctly contemporary, citrusy, and barely spicy style.
Coconut Milk Choices
Use full-fat coconut milk for the very best coconut taste and the creamiest outcomes. For those who’re on the lookout for a lighter choice, you may substitute low-fat coconut milk if you happen to want, however your dish gained’t be as thick. Repair this by including half a tablespoon of cornstarch combined with a tablespoon of water to thicken the sauce.
You too can substitute coconut cream for coconut milk. They’re nearly at all times 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 some other! It really 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 advocate including within the recipe quantity after which tasting the sauce earlier than including any extra.
For those who actually don’t need to use fish sauce, or if in case you have an allergy, you may attempt one among these as a substitute (however severely, the depth of taste simply isn’t the identical with a substitute):
- Soy sauce
- Soy sauce and rice vinegar (equal elements)
- Minced Anchovies
- Soy sauce and lime juice (equal elements)
How Spicy Are We Speaking?
Thai curry is historically served spicy, however ours registers proper between delicate 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. For those who don’t like spicy meals in any respect, use solely 2 teaspoons of chili garlic sauce as a substitute of the total 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 way of, 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 advocate Freezing this dish. Coconut milk can tackle a humorous texture when reheated from frozen.
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