Chicken Curry
Many people think that cooking is complicated. I don’t. It is the effort around cooking, like having to go to the store to buy ingredients and cleaning the dishes that are the parts that make cooking complicated and even tedious. The actual cooking, and even coming up with new ideas, not so much. The last curry post on this blog was a Tofu and Sweet Potato Curry. With a few simple changes to the ingredients, the tofu and sweet potato curry can be turned into a delicious chicken curry. No, it is not disruptive innovation, they are simply small changes that reveal another delicious meal that is very easy to get on the table. As for having to go to the store and cleaning the dishes…it will be worth the effort when you see the smiles on the faces of those to whom you serve delicious simple meals.
- 1 tbsp of your favorite green curry paste
- 1 stalk of lemon grass
- 1 lb skinless boneless chicken thighs
- 1/2 lb green beans
- 1/2 lb shitake mushrooms
- 2 cans coconut milk (if you prefer a drier curry, use 1 can)
- 1 tbsp of fish sauce plus more
- 1 lime
- 3 green onions
- 1 big bunch of cilantro
- unsalted peanuts
- vegetable oil
- salt and pepper
- With the back of a heavy knife or a meat mallet, bruise the stalk of lemon grass.
- Dice the chicken.
- Slice the mushrooms. Trim the beans
- Cut the green onion into thirds.
- Using a rasp, zest the lime. Cut the lime in half.
- Chop the cilantro.
- In a large saute pan, heat 3 tbsp vegetable oil over medium heat. Add the curry paste and lemon grass. Cook 2 minutes.
- Add the chicken and cook until it is almost completely cooked through.
- Add the coconut milk and bring to a simmer. Add the fish sauce and lime zest. Stir well and let simmer 15 minutes.
- Add the beans and cook 5 minutes.
- Add the juice of half the lime.
- Taste for seasoning. Adjust the taste with curry paste, fish sauce, lime juice, and salt and pepper to your liking.
- Serve the curry on rice topped with peanuts and chopped cilantro.
- If you want to use leftover chicken meat, simply chop the chicken add it at the same place in the recipe the raw chicken would be added, heat the meat through, then continue with the recipe.
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