Thai Green Curry Chicken With Basil Food

THAI BASIL CHICKEN WITH COCONUT CURRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat sesame oil over medium-high heat in a large, heavy-bottomed skillet. Add onion and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add garlic and ginger; saute for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Stir chicken into the hot skillet and season with salt and pepper. Mix in curry paste. Brown chicken on both sides, about 10 minutes total.
• Pour in coconut milk, chicken broth, snow peas, mushrooms, red bell pepper, and bamboo shoots. Season with cinnamon and stir well. Cover and reduce heat to medium-low; let simmer until chicken is no longer pink in the center and juices run clear, about 30 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in basil and lemon juice.

THAI GREEN CURRY WITH CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oil in a wok until it starts to shimmer. Add curry paste, garlic, and ginger; stir together and fry until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add chicken breast slices, stirring until coated. Cook until just slightly pink in the center, 3 to 5 minutes.
• While chicken is cooking, place baby corn and bamboo shots in a small saucepan, cover with water, and place over high heat. Bring to a boil. Drain then cover with water again.
• Pour coconut milk into the wok. Bring to a slow simmer, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Drain corn and bamboo shoots and add in. Stir in fish sauce, palm sugar, and kaffir lime leaves. Bring back up to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Stir in bell pepper strips and cook until crisp-tender, about 3 minutes.
• Remove curry from heat and stir in Thai basil.

THAI GREEN CURRY

Steps:

• Bring water and rice to a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until rice is tender and water has been absorbed, 20 to 25 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Mix in onion, fish sauce, brown sugar, ginger, and garlic; cook and stir about 5 minutes. Add chicken, curry paste, and basil. Cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes more. Add eggplant, cover, and reduce heat to low to avoid burning spices. Cook about 5 minutes more.
• Pour broth, coconut milk, and bamboo shoots into the saucepan. Continue cooking until eggplant is tender and curry is heated through, 5 to 10 minutes more. Stir in lime juice before serving over cooked rice with basil leaves.

GREEN CURRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place a large, deep skillet over medium heat and coat with the oil. Saute the onion and green peppers for 3 minutes to soften. Split the piece of lemongrass down the middle and whack it with the flat side of a knife to open the flavor. Add the lemongrass, ginger, curry paste and lime leaves to the skillet and stir for 2 minutes. Pour in the coconut milk and chicken broth. Lay the chicken pieces in the mixture to poach; add a pinch of salt. Stir together and simmer over low heat for 10 to 15 minutes. Squeeze in the lime juice and shower with basil and cilantro; serve in dinner bowls with lime wedges.
• Heat the coriander, cumin seeds, and peppercorns in a small dry skillet for 2 minutes until fragrant. Put the seeds in a clean coffee grinder or spice mill and buzz the spices to a powder.
• Put the spice blend and remaining ingredients in a food processor, and pulse to combine. Pour in the water to help grind everything down into a paste.

CHICKEN GREEN CURRY WITH BASIL

Steps:

• Bring 4 ounces of coconut milk to a boil with the curry paste, sugar, stock and fish sauce.
• Simmer for 15 minutes.
• Add the remaining cocnut milk, basil, bamboo, and chicken and simmer another 10 minutes.
• Just before serving, stir in the snow peas.
• Serve over rice.
• This recipe also works well with fish or shrimp.

GREEN CURRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Pour the coconut milk into a saute pan, add the curry and simmer a minute or two.
• Add the chicken simmer another few minutes.
• Add the everything else except the peas and the jasmine rice and simmer for about 10 minutes.
• Try it and if you want it a little hotter add some more curry.
• Add the peas and simmer until the peas are tender.
• Serve over rice.

THAI BASIL CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oil in wok. Stir-fry onions, peppers, and white part of bok-choy until crisp tender. Remove and keep warm.
• Add oil to wok if needed and stir-fry chicken, garlic, and pepper flakes until chicken is done. Add sauces in order, stirring between each addition to coat. Add cooked vegetables back and stir to coat.
• Add green part of bok choy and basil, stirring just unti hot-crisp, and beginning to wilt. Serve immediately.

THAI GREEN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Carefully spoon about 1 cup of the thick cream from one can of coconut milk.
• Place the coconut cream and curry paste in a large Dutch oven and bring to a simmer over high heat, whisking to blend, about 2 minutes.
• Maintain this brisk simmer and whisk frequently until almost all of the liquid evaporates, 3-5 minutes.
• Reduce the heat to medium-high and whisk constantly until the cream separates into a puddle of colored oil and coconut solids, 3-8 minute.(You should hear the curry paste start to fry in the oil).
• Continue cooking until the curry paste is very aromatic.
• Whisk in the remaining coconut milk, the fish sauce, and the brown sugar.
• Bring back to a brisk simmer and cook until the flavors meld and the sauce thickens, about 5 minute.
• Season chicken with salt and add it to the pot, stirring until the pieces are separated and evenly coated with the sauce.
• Stir in the mushrooms and the bamboo shoots and bring back to a brisk simmer over medium heat.
• Cook until chicken is cooked through.
• Stir in bell pepper and cook until crisp-tender. Off the heat, stir in the lime juice and basil. Serve immediately with rice.