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 received’t choose. With scrumptious Thai flavors, this dish is a consolation meal that doesn’t sit heavy and is bound to be requested repeatedly.

Attempt our recipes for Thai Pink Shrimp Curry and Hen Satay with Peanut Dipping Sauce for extra Thai-inspired flavors.

What can we love most about this Simple Coconut Curry recipe? It’s so easy to organize with components that will already be in your pantry, and it’s full of tons of spices, tender hen, and creamy coconut milk. It’s additionally a dish you can get artistic with, by including much more recent greens or rising 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 chunk.

Ingredient Notes

• Onion: White affords a milder onion taste than its pal the yellow onion, however you possibly can nonetheless use yellow.
• Pink Bell Pepper: You might go along with one other colour like orange or yellow that’s additionally candy. Inexperienced is appropriate however is lacking that sweeter taste.
• Garlic: Moreover 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 might be in search of a yellow curry powder they usually aren’t all created equal. Utilizing a name-brand curry powder is normally a strong alternative.
• Turmeric: A part of the ginger household, and provides all the things it touches a phenomenal golden colour.
• Coriander: Curry’s ignored BFF, provides a shocking freshness that offers the curry a deeper and extra balanced taste.
• Hen Breasts: Minimize into bite-size items. You might additionally use boneless skinless hen thighs with out altering cooking occasions.
• Hen Broth: Use a low-sodium hen broth to raised 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 bought 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: Recent is at all times finest, however the bottled stuff works too.
• Cilantro: In the event you’re one of many fortunate people who can style cilantro as an alternative of the ‘soapy’ taste some individuals describe, then sprinkling recent cilantro excessive provides a distinctly recent, citrusy, and barely spicy style.

Coconut Milk Choices

Use full-fat coconut milk for the most effective coconut taste and the creamiest outcomes. In the event you’re in search of a lighter choice, you may substitute low-fat coconut milk in the event you choose, however your dish received’t be as thick. Repair this by including half a tablespoon of cornstarch combined with a tablespoon of water to thicken the sauce.

It’s also possible to 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 another! It really pulls all the spices collectively making a deeper genuine Thai taste, and legitimately enhances the style of the general dish. You received’t remorse utilizing it! Fish sauce is powerful, nevertheless, so we advocate including within the recipe quantity after which tasting the sauce earlier than including any extra.

In the event you actually don’t wish to use fish sauce, or when you have an allergy, you may attempt one in all these as an alternative (however significantly, the depth of taste simply isn’t the identical with a substitute):

• Soy sauce
• Soy sauce and rice vinegar (equal components)
• Minced Anchovies
• Soy sauce and lime juice (equal components)