Thai green chicken curry
Tender chicken in a creamy coconut milk sauce with green curry paste, zucchini, green beans and basil.
- Time
- 35 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
- Per serving
- R$12.40
- Servings
- 4 servings
Ingredients
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Creamy, aromatic and spicy to just the right degree. Green curry is ready in half an hour when the paste does the heavy lifting, and the homemade swap, blended in five minutes, works well when the ready-made paste is not at your supermarket.
Method
- Cut the chicken into 3 cm pieces and season with a pinch of salt.
- Cut the zucchini into thick half-moons and the green beans into 4 cm pieces.
- Start cooking the rice.
- In a wide pot, heat the oil over medium heat.
- Fry the curry paste for 1 minute, until fragrant.
- Add 100 ml of the coconut milk, from the thick part, and cook for 2 minutes.
Add the chicken and stir for 3 minutes, until it changes color on the outside.
- Pour in the rest of the coconut milk and add the soy sauce, the sugar and the lime zest.
- Simmer over low heat for 12 minutes.
Add the green beans and the zucchini and cook for 8 more minutes, until tender but still firm.
- Turn off the heat and stir in the basil and the lime juice.
- Taste and adjust the salt.
- Serve over the rice.
Tips
If the sauce is thin, let it boil for a few minutes without a lid. If it is too strong for people who do not like heat, serve with a little more coconut milk on top. It reheats well the next day, which makes it a good lunchbox meal.
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Nutrients per serving
Calories
675 kcal
Protein
33 g
20% of kcal
Carbohydrate
57 g
33% of kcal
Fat
36 g
47% of kcal · fiber 4 g
Where the calories come from
- protein20%
- carbohydrate33%
- fat47%
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By food
| Food | Qty. | kcal | Prot. | Share of calories |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| boneless, skinless chicken thighs | 150 g | 243 | 26 g | 36% |
| coconut milk | 94 g | 156 | 1 g | 23% |
| zucchini | 50 g | 10 | 0.6 g | 1% |
| green beans | 38 g | 10 | 0.7 g | 1% |
| Thai basil | 3.8 g | 1 | 0.1 g | 0% |
| lime | 15 g | 5 | 0.1 g | 1% |
| brown sugar | 1.2 g | 4 | 0 g | 1% |
| soy sauce (shoyu) | 4 g | 3 | 0.1 g | 0% |
| vegetable oil | 3.4 g | 30 | 0 g | 5% |
| white rice | 60 g | 215 | 4.3 g | 32% |
Calculated with 10 of 11 ingredients. No data for: green curry paste.
Source: TACO (Unicamp) and USDA FoodData Central. Approximate values. Not medical or nutritional advice.
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