Thai Chicken Curry

Submitted by ctc315

"A spicy melange of chicken, tomato, onion, sweet potato, firey hot peppers, mango and raisins, in a spicy red curry sauce flavored with cayenne pepper, ginger and garlic, served over rice."

 

• Ready In: 1hr 5mins
• Ingredients: 17
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 473.18 ml homemade coconut milk (See ingredients or directions below)

• Ingredients for coconut milk

• 473.18 ml hot water
• grated flesh of one whole coconut

• Curry sauce ingredients

• 473.18 ml homemade coconut milk
• 118.29 ml Thai red curry paste

• The rest of the ingredients

• 453.59 g boneless chicken breast, very thinly sliced (it may help to put the chicken in the freezer for about 10 minutes to firm it up before slicing)
• 1 cooking onion, large dice
• 1 tomatoes, cut into eights
• 1 sweet potato, large dice
• 1 hot pepper, sliced into thin rings
• 1 mango, cut into a medium dice
• 29.58 ml grated fresh ginger
• 3 minced garlic cloves
• 1.23 ml ground cayenne pepper
• 59.14 ml raisins
• 118.29 ml water
• 1419.54 ml cooked white rice

directions

1. Coconut milk recipe:

2. The day before, make the coconut milk by placing the grated flesh of an entire coconut, (you can use a blender or food processor to do this), into a bowl, pour 2 cups of very hot water over the coconut.
3. Stir and let it cool. After it is cool, use your hand to squeeze coconut in the water to extract all of the milk. Do this for about five minutes.
4. Strain the entire mix thru cheesecloth, being careful to squeeze EVERY bit of the milk out of the grated coconut. Refrigerate the milk till next day.

5. Main recipe:

6. First, parboil the sweet potato, (Do not peel), till al-dente (done but still crunchy).
7. In a wok, place the curry paste, and the coconut milk. Mix, bring to a boil and simmer for five minutes.
8. Add the chicken, garlic, ginger, onion, sweet potato, hot pepper, raisins, cayenne pepper and water, stir and simmer five minutes, till the meat is done.
9. Add mango and tomato, stir and cook 2 more minutes.
10. Serve over cooked rice.

Reviews

[Elmotoo]

This is a good recipe but it's not my favorite dish. It was too hot for my older daughter & enough curry paste so I could taste the cilantro which I detest. But my 5y.o. loved it. ;) The recipe is very good - a nice balance of flavors/textures - the raisins & mangoes take the edge of the heat.