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Ingredients
- potatoes - 225g new
- green beans - 100g
- sunflower oil - 1 tbsp
- garlic - 1 clove
- Thai green curry paste - 4 tsp
- coconut milk - 400ml
- Thai fish sauce - 2 tsp
- Sugar - 1 tsp
- Chicken - 450g boneless
- lime - 2 fresh kaffir leaves
- basil - handfull
- Rice - Boiled
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Instructions
- Put the potatoes in a pan of boiling water and cook for 5 minutes.
- Throw in the beans and cook for a further 3 minutes, by which time both should be just tender but not too soft.
- Drain and put to one side.
- In a wok or large frying pan, heat the oil until very hot, then drop in the garlic and cook until golden, this should take only a few seconds.
- Don’t let it go very dark or it will spoil the taste.
- Spoon in the curry paste and stir it around for a few seconds to begin to cook the spices and release all the flavours.
- Next, pour in the coconut milk and let it come to a bubble.
- Stir in the fish sauce and sugar, then the pieces of chicken.
- Turn the heat down to a simmer and cook, covered, for about 8 minutes until the chicken is cooked.
- Tip in the potatoes and beans and let them warm through in the hot coconut milk, then add a lovely citrussy flavour by stirring in the shredded lime leaves (or lime zest).
- The basil leaves go in next, but only leave them briefly on the heat or they will quickly lose their brightness.
- Scatter with the lime garnish and serve immediately with boiled rice.