Red Curry Chicken With Basil

Submitted by Busters friend

"Hot weather cooking at its best! Serve with recipe#301203 and steamed jasmine rice. From Taste of Thai"

 

• Ready In: 25mins
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 1 1⁄2 tablespoons red curry paste
• 13 1⁄2 ounces coconut milk, shaken
• 1 1⁄2 lbs chicken breasts, raw, sliced into bite size pieces
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons fish sauce
• 1 red bell pepper, sliced
• 10 large basil leaves, Thai, chopped

directions

1. Heat the oil in the frying pan over medium heat.
2. Add the Curry Paste and simmer for 2 minutes, so that it is dissolved, fragrant and foaming.
3. Stir in the can of the coconut milk. Cook over medium heat for 4 minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. Add the sliced chicken. Simmer for 4 minutes.
5. Stir in the sugar, fish sauce and bell pepper. Simmer until the chicken is cooked, about 3 minutes more.
6. Add the chopped basil. Season to taste with more sugar or Fish Sauce as desired.

Reviews

[jrusk]

I use the TOT website too and was going to post this the way I make it. This is a great dish but it isn't Thai spicy if made as posted. We are glutens for punishment so I add two teaspoons (if not more) hot chili sauce instead of sugar. I also up the fish sauce to 2 tbls. and add thinly sliced onions. I use lite coconut milk... I wonder how much lower the fat content is? 40G is a bit scary, especially b/c I eat my curry with a spoon, lol. Great base recipe, glad you posted it!