Thai Green Curry with Chicken

From the Women's Weekly Beginners Thai cookbook. The Thai name of this recipe is gaeng keow wahn gai.

Serves 4

Ingredients

Equipment Required

Curry

1/4 cup (75g) green curry paste

2 x 400ml cans coconut milk

2 fresh kaffir lime leaves, torn

1 kg chicken thigh fillets (fat removed), cut into quarters on the diagonal

2 tablespoons peanut oil

2 tablespoons fish sauce

2 tablespoons lime juice

1 tablespoon grated palm sugar

150g frozen peas (see note)

1 small zucchini (150g) cut into 5 cm julienne

1/3 cup loosely packed fresh thai basil leaves

1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh coriander

To dress

1 tablespoon fresh coriander leaves

1 fresh long green thai chilli, sliced thinly

2 green onions, sliced thinly

Large saucepan

Frying pan

Method

Place curry paste in large saucepan. Stir over heat until fragrant.

Add coconut milk and lime leaves, bring to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer, stirring, for 5 minutes.

Heat oil in large frypan. Cook chicken pieces in batches, until just browned. Drain on absorbent paper.

Add chicken to curry mix with sauce, juice and sugar. Simmer, covered, about 5 minutes, until chicken is cooked through.

Add zucchini, peas, basil and chopped coriander. Cook, stirring until zucchini is just tender

Place curry in serving bowl, sprinkle with coriander leaves, chilli and onion

Notes

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Peas

The original recipe contained 150g pea eggplants (we have found them impossible to source) and the following note :

Pea eggplants, makeua puong, can be found in Asian supermarkets and specialist greengrocers. They are a bit larger than green peas, have a distinctive, almost bitter taste and come attached to stalks in clusters, like grapes. Snip them off the stalk with kitchen scissors. They can be substituted with an equal weight of thai eggplants or, if all else fails, fresh shelled peas.

If you can get pea eggplants, they should be added to the curry mix at the same time as the chicken pieces.

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