Red chicken & coconut broth
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
- 250 g boned and skinned chicken thighs diced
- 4 teaspoons ready-made red Thai curry paste
- 1 teaspoon ready-made galangal paste
- 3 dried kaffir lime leaves
- 400 ml can full-fat coconut milk
- 2 teaspoons Thai fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon light muscovado sugar
- 600 ml 1 pint chicken stock (see page 10)
- 4 spring onions thinly sliced, plus 2 extra to garnish
- 50 g 2 oz mangetout, sliced
- 100 g 3½ oz bean sprouts, rinsed
- small bunch of coriander leaves
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the chicken and curry paste and fry for 3–4 minutes until just beginning to colour. Stir in the galangal paste, lime leaves, coconut milk, fish sauce and muscovado sugar, then mix in the stock.
- Bring to the boil, cover and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally until the chicken is cooked.
- Create curls by cutting very thin strips from the two spring onions reserved for a garnish. Soak in cold water for 10 minutes, then drain.
- Add the remaining spring onions, mangetout and bean sprouts and cook for 2 minutes. Ladle into bowls and tear the coriander leaves over the top. Scatter the spring onion curls over the soup.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
For red fish & coconut broth, heat the oil, add the curry paste and fry for 1 minute. Add the galangal paste, lime leaves, coconut milk, fish sauce and muscovado sugar. Pour in the stock then add a 250 g (8 oz) salmon fillet. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, lift out the fish and flake it into pieces, discarding the skin and bones. Return the salmon to the broth, add the vegetables and 125 g (4 oz) small prawns, defrosted and rinsed if frozen. Cook for 2 minutes then serve with the coriander leaves as above.
