
Ingredients
Quantities for 4 portions
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Method
- Cook the jasmine rice. Heat vegetable oil. Fry red curry paste with garlic, ginger and lemongrass 2 minutes until it dries out.
- Add chicken stock and simmer 3 minutes. Stir in coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, sugar and fish sauce.
- Add chicken thighs and pumpkin. Simmer 10 minutes.
- Add green beans and cook until the chicken is done and the sauce is thick.
- Fold in basil. Serve with the rice and a squeeze of lime.
Shopping tip
Pasta de caril vermelho Maesri tins or Blue Dragon jars. Leite de coco gordo. Folhas de lima kaffir: raspa de lima if missing. Erva-limão sometimes at Continente; paste already carries the flavour. Abóbora and feijão-verde are easy.
Where it fits in your week
Suits a calmer day, or cooking ahead at the weekend.
At the portions as written, there is enough for a second meal.
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