Thai
Thai Yellow Curry Chicken
Thai Yellow Curry Chicken is Thai home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.5 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
- 3 tbsp yellow curry paste
- 27 oz coconut milk
- 3 yukon gold potatoes
- 1 onion
- 2 carrots
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 lime
- 1 tbsp neutral oil
- 4 cups cooked jasmine rice
How to cook it
- Heat the oil in a pot and fry the yellow curry paste with the sliced onion until fragrant, about 3 minutes.
- Add the sliced chicken and stir to coat, cooking for 4 minutes.
- Pour in the coconut milk, fish sauce, and brown sugar and bring to a simmer.
- Add the cubed potatoes and carrots and simmer until the vegetables are tender and the chicken is cooked, about 20 minutes.
- Brighten with a squeeze of lime and adjust the fish sauce to taste.
- Serve over the jasmine rice.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Thai Yellow Curry Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Thai Yellow Curry Chicken carries shellfish, fish, and coconut. It is free of the remaining 7 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Larb Gai |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Pad See Ew with Chicken |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Grains, Vegetables, Meat or fish, and Nuts and seeds
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Thai Yellow Curry Chicken takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, coconut, and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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