Help Thai Chicken for 4

[kizzie]

Hello - Ive got to be able to pretend I can cook for a get together on wednesday!!
Has anyone got an easy recipe for something like Thai chicken????
Or maybe chicken curry - or maybe a website that has easy recipes?
(Sorry - am I sounding a bit desperate - just not sure that beans on toast will do!)
Kizziexx

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try this

Kizzie, the Barts Thai green curry paste is great and I'm pretty sure there are instructions on the side of the jar. If not though, there are loads of good recipes on this thread here , and I posted Nigel Slater's Thai green curry paste recipe there if you wanted to make your own paste. You could make the paste in advance. If not there are lots of other suggestions there.

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Do you make your own paste? Is it at all difficult?

Wow - thankyou!!!
Looks like the beans on toast are off the menu.
Kizziex

Maomao, I've made the paste quite a lot, yes, from the recipe on that thread, which is a Nigel Slater one from his book '30 minute suppers'. No, it's not difficult, although getting all the ingredients for the rest of the curry or paste is sometimes not the easiest - Kaffir lime leaves and galangal in particular. But you can use ginger instead of galangal and it's not the end of the world if you don't add lime leaves. I used to make the paste from scratch rather than use a bought one as I was often making vegetarian thai green curry and the bought pastes usually have Nam Pla (sp?) in them, which is fish sauce. I think Nigel Slater has also added this as an ingredient in most of his subsequent recipes for Thai green curry paste.

Tescos sell a thai curry pack in their veg dept, this has ready prepared ginger, garlic, shallots, lime leaves, lemon grass, corriander and chillis. They are all very finely chopped. I fry these up then add the chicken and half a tin of coconut milk. For four I think you would have to double the recipie. I serve it with sticky rice and a avocado and tomato salsa. (chopped avocados, tomatoes, small chilli, lots of corriander, juice of a big lime and sea salt.

When we can be bothered we tend to make the paste from scratch , but otherwise Sainsbury's do a very good one in a glass jar; either red(hot) or green(mild). U just add coconut milk . I always go a bit further and DOCTOR most things and add a few teaspoons of palm sugar once the meat is cooked.This tends to make a world of difference to the flavour. I also add some more chillis and shallotts (pasted in a stone pestle and mortar),to the green one to give it more kick. I find that a lot of other ready made pastes are too stickey and claggy, this one is the closests to fresh sauce.

When we can be bothered we tend to make the paste from scratch , but otherwise Sainsbury's do a very good one in a glass jar; either red(hot) or green(mild). U just add coconut milk . I always go a bit further and DOCTOR most things and add a few teaspoons of palm sugar once the meat is cooked.This tends to make a world of difference to the flavour. I also add some more chillis and shallotts (pasted in a stone pestle and mortar),to the green one to give it more kick. I find that a lot of other ready made pastes are too stickey and claggy, this one is the closests to fresh sauce.

sorreee 4 double entry - everything froze!!!!

go on cooks.com and type in ingreM DIENTS

twiglett, as a Thai, adding a tin of tomotoes, I nearly fell off my chair

Thanks everyone - from dreading it - Im actually looking forward to trying to make it now. Going to do a practice run tomorrow!
Kizziex

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