Chicken with lemongrass & coconut

Chicken with lemongrass & coconut

An unashamedly rich and creamy chicken, coconut and lemongrass Thai dish - which you can make ahead and freeze

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 35-40 minutes

Freezable

Freeze before adding lime juice

Method

  1. Tip all the ingredients except the chicken, lime juice and herbs into a pan, bring to a gentle simmer and cook uncovered at a relaxed bubble for 5 minutes.
  2. Add the chicken, cover and simmer for 15 minutes, until the chicken is tender. Stir in the lime juice, then scatter over the herbs before serving with rice.

454 kcalories, protein 26.0g, carbohydrate 39.0g, fat 23.0 g, saturated fat 19.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 2.0g, salt 1.89 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2002.

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  • 09 March 2008

    Chishani commented on this recipe

    also added vegetablesl such as baby corn, mang tout, sugarsnap peas, mushrooms for the last 5-10 mins of cooking

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  • 03 June 2008

    Blatandja rated this recipe

    5 stars

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  • 24 February 2009

    baronette commented on this recipe

    My first comment, before cooking, is how can I replace the kaffir lime leaves which are unavailable in my part of France. Shall I just omit them? Fresh lemon grass ditto, but I brought back from UK a jar of this as we very much enjoy Thai recipes.

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  • 17 March 2009

    weeble cooks rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I added extra veg for the last few minutes of cooking. I used coconut evaporated milk instead of coconut milk, to make it low fat. I didn't have any kaffir lime leaves, so, I used leaves from my citrus trees.

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  • 18 February 2012

    Maria commented on this recipe

    easy and delicious.

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  • 15 December 2012

    crystaltipps rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Really tasty but definitely needed some veg with it - I used mushrooms, babycorn and sugar snaps.

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  • 16 December 2012

    lizleicester rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Used coconut milk LIGHT and everything curdled when the chicken was added and looked horrible. Still tasted OK but it was only eaten because there were no alternatives!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 6

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Takes 35-40 minutes

Freezable

Freeze before adding lime juice

Ingredients

  • 2 x 400ml cans coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp fish sauce
  • 3cm piece ginger or galangal, finely chopped
  • 2 lemongrass stalks, finely sliced
  • 6 freeze-dried kaffir lime leaves (Barts is very good)
  • 1 fresh red chilli , chopped
  • 2 tsp light muscovado sugar
  • 500g boneless skinless chicken breasts , cut into chunks
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • good handful fresh basil and coriander, roughly chopped
  • 250-350g Thai rice , cooked following pack instructions, to serve
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454 kcalories, protein 26.0g, carbohydrate 39.0g, fat 23.0 g, saturated fat 19.0g, fibre 1.0g, sugar 2.0g, salt 1.89 g

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