Thai Coconut Curry with Chicken
March 27, 2006 by Andrea
Filed under Asian, Poultry, Recently Updated
This is the first dish I tried at the original Big Bowl in Chicago, and boy did I get hooked! I spent the next year looking up similar recipes and trying to clone the dish. This is the final version that I came up with, and it’s one that we really enjoy. You can turn the spiciness up or down by using more or less curry paste, depending on your heat tolerance.
[Updated February 14, 2010.]
THAI COCONUT CURRY WITH CHICKEN
Serves 4 to 6.
Equipment
large skillet or wok
sharp knife Read more
Shrimp Pad Thai
I fell in love with Thai food on a trip to Koh Samui and Phuket in 1996. I had a great time visiting all of the little restaurants and some of the larger tourist-type places as well. When I came back to the U.S., I was grateful to find a good Thai restaurant in my neighborhood in Chicago. I would eat the pad thai and the cashew chicken and think about the beaches of Koh Samui.
I must confess that I do not make pad thai sauce from scratch simply because I can buy jars of good sauce from my local Asian grocery store. In fact, my frig always has a jar ready to go. This is truly a quick 30-minute recipe. This makes enough to feed the four of us, although the boys are still young. In a few years I may need to double the recipe to feed us all!
[Updated March 30, 2009] Read more
