Feeling like a fresh, light, summer meal? Get those rice noodles out and let’s make a simple wok dish. The coconut chicken recipe is really similar to a yellow curry sauce, but this one is for lazy people, you can use weather the yellow curry paste but I simply used the curry powder. That powder is actually a British invention to reproduce the orient flavours. The powder usually contains curcuma, ginger, turmeric, coriander, fenugreek, pepper, cardamom etc. It a mix of at those asian flavours in one pot, some powders are spicier than others, the ingredients tends to change depending of the company. I use this curry powder on popcorn, with butter, it’s delicious! Coconut meat constipate while the coconut water is a natural laxative, how perfect is that? A perfect balance within a single coconut. In the recipe, coconut milk is used, but it could be switched to coconut cream, to make it fatter,tastier and smoother.
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Coconut chicken noodles
Makes 2 portions
Ingredients
250g rice vermicelli noodles
1 can of coconut milk
2tbs curry powder
2 chicken breast in small cubes
1 red bell pepper
1 onion
3 kaffir (makrut) limes leaves *optional
3tbs fish sauce, or salt
2tbs coconut oil, or peanut, vegetable oil.
1tbs sesame oil
Toppings
lime
1 peeled carrot
black sesame seeds
basil or coriander leaves
Directions
Cut your chicken into little cubes and add 1 tbs of fish sauce to marinate a few minutes
Add a pot of water to boil for the noodles
Cook the glass noodles, only 2 minutes, keep the hot water to regenerate the noodles later
Take out the noodles, drain, and rinse in cold water (gives them that nice texture)
Add the sesame oil to the noodles, mix a bit and reserve
Cut all the vegetables, peel a full carrot
In a hot wok, or a big sauté pan, add the coconut oil
Add the chicken and sauté it until light brown
Add the pepper, onion, curry powder, kaffir lime leaves and coconut milk, reduce for a few minutes (about 3 minutes to high heat)
When the sauce consistency is thick, add the fish sauce so salt up your dish, if no fish sauce use simply salt or soy sauce
In the hot water pot from the precooked noodles, add the noodle a few second again to warm them up
Serve the chicken, sauce on top of the noodles, add the peeled carrot slices, black sesame seeds and basil on top.
Serve with a piece of lime on the side and chopsticks. Enjoy!