Green Curry Chicken with Rice Noodles
Chef ModThis recipe is brought to you by our friends at Asian Inspirations.
Ingredients:
- 600g chicken thighs (cut into strips about 1 cm thickness)
- 40g fresh coriander (whole)
- 12g lemongrass, roughly chopped
- 2 garlic cloves
- 200ml water
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 5 tbsp Valcom Green Curry Paste
- 400ml Valcom Premium Coconut Cream
- 5 Thai eggplants, quartered and soaked in salted water
- 3 tsp chicken stock powder
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 45g grated palm sugar
- 4 kaffir lime leaves, spine removed and roughly torn
To Serve
- 200g dried Thai Ka-nom Jeen (rice noodles)
- Red chilli and Thai basil leaves (garnish)
Method:
- In a blender, blend 200ml of water, garlic, sliced lemongrass and coriander until it’s smooth.
- In a heated pan, heat up vegetable oil. Add curry paste with coriander seed powder then cook, stirring for a few mins until fragrant.
- Add 200ml of coconut cream then cook for about 5 mins.
- Increase the heat and add in the rest of the coconut cream, then adding in the green herb liquid and boil for about 6 mins.
- Once the chicken is cooked through, reduce the heat to simmer, and add in the palm sugar, fish sauce and chicken powder.
- Drain the soaked Thai eggplants and add the eggplants into the pot and simmer for a further 2-3 mins.
- Add in the kaffir lime leaves.
- Cook the rice noodles by following the instructions on the packet.
- After the noodles are cooked, rinse them under tap water, drain in colander and twist the noodles into small balls.
- In a bowl, arrange the rice noodles and ladle green curry over, garnishing with red chilli and Thai basil leaves.