Thai Style Chicken or Turkey Vegetable Curry
Easy use-what-you-have weeknight dinner using leftover chicken or turkey, this healthy and delicious Thai style chicken vegetable curry can be on the table in about 20 minutes.
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 395kcal
Ingredients
- 2 13.5-ounce cans coconut milk
- 1 tablespoon oil, avocado, peanut, or coconut oil
- 3 cups chopped cooked chicken or turkey*
- 1 onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce, optional but strongly suggested
- 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon yellow, red, or green Thai curry paste according to taste**
- 5 cups mixed vegetables: sliced carrots, zucchini, chopped broccoli, and/or cauliflower, sliced sweet peppers, cut green beans, peas, etc.
- rice or rice noodles for serving
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large, deep skillet over medium heat. (Cook the chicken now if not using precooked*) Add the onion, garlic, and any hard vegetable that needs sautéing (carrots, cauliflower, etc.). Sauté for about 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the cooked poultry, and remaining vegetables along with the coconut milk and fish sauce, stirring well.
- Add the curry paste to taste, being careful to monitor the spiciness. Start with only 1 teaspoon of green, 1½ teaspoon of red or just less than a tablespoon of yellow. You can always add more.
- Bring to a low boil and cook for another 5 minutes to let the flavors meld and cook the vegetables to just crisp-tender.
- Serve over rice or rice noodles.
Notes
*To use uncooked poultry, simply sauté in the pan first, remove from pan, chop and set aside before cooking the vegetables.
**I use 1 to 2 teaspoons of green curry paste (a hot curry) to two cans of coconut milk, 2 to 4 teaspoons of red curry paste, and about a tablespoon of yellow (the most mild curry).
Nutrition Note: The numbers were calculated without rice or noodles.
Nutrition
Calories: 395kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 16g | Cholesterol: 53mg | Sodium: 370mg | Potassium: 689mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 7862IU | Vitamin C: 18mg | Calcium: 67mg | Iron: 5mg
