Thai Celebration Chicken
Ingredients
Food Safety
Before you start, wash all surfaces and your hands with soap and warm water, and remember to wash your hands, utensils and cutting boards after they touch raw meat or eggs. Avoid cross-contamination by using a different cutting board for your meat and other ingredients. Make sure you’re cooking to safe temperatures and chilling any leftovers within two hours. For more food safety tips, visit our Food Safety at Home Section.
Steps
Remove any fat from chicken. Thinly slice, then cut into bite-size pieces. Set aside. Open the can of coconut milk and spoon about a ½ cup (60 mL) of the thick white coconut milk collected at the top of the can into a large wide saucepan. Add the curry paste and place pan over medium heat. Stir gently for 3 minutes.
Then stir in the remaining coconut milk, fish sauce and tomatoes. Boil gently, uncovered and stirring occasionally, for about 10 minutes while you slice the hard central ribs from lime leaves and discard them. Finely chop the leaves and stir into the sauce as soon as they are chopped.
Continue to boil gently, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until about half of the coconut milk is reduced and the tomatoes start to break down. This will take 5 to 10 minutes. Meanwhile drain all the liquid from the lycee nuts and roughly chop the basil.
When the sauce is reduced, add all the chicken strips. Stir constantly over medium heat until the chicken loses it’s pink color, from 3 to 5 minutes. Then add the drained lychee nuts and basil. Gently stir until nuts are hot, about 2 minutes. Sprinkle with a few whole basil leaves and serve over rice.
Helpful Tip
Lychee Nut Stand-in: A thin Japanese eggplant is an ideal fresh stand-in for the lychee nuts. Thinly slice a skinny purple skinned eggplant and add when you add the kaffir leaves. Do not add the lychee nuts.
Nutrition Info
| Per 435 g serving | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calories | 300 |
| Protein | 34 g |
| Fat | 12 g |
| Saturated Fat | 9 g |
| Carbohydrate | 14 g |
| Fibre | 6 g |
| Sugar | 7 g |
| Cholesterol | 80 mg |
| Sodium | 900 mg |
| Per 435 g serving | % Daily Value |
|---|---|
| Potassium | 31 |
| Calcium | 6 |
| Iron | 15 |
| Vitamin A | 20 |
| Vitamin C | 5 |
| Vitamin B6 | 55 |
| Vitamin B12 | 28 |
| Folate | 17 |
| Zinc | 20 |
