Thai
Kaeng Pa Kai (Jungle Curry with Chicken)
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Kaeng Pa Kai (Jungle Curry with Chicken) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the soup. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a pot over medium heat and fry the red curry paste with the shredded krachai until fragrant and darkened, about 2 minutes.
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Add the sliced chicken and stir to coat it in the paste until it turns opaque.
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Pour in the water, bring to a boil, then add the long beans in short lengths, the baby corn, the quartered Thai eggplants, the pea eggplants and the torn lime leaves.
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Simmer until the vegetables are just tender and the chicken is cooked through, about 8 minutes, then season with the fish sauce and palm sugar.
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Add the split chilies and holy basil off the heat and serve with rice. The curry is thin, hot and herbal with no coconut milk, which is why it suits an ordinary weeknight.
Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kaeng Pa Kai (Jungle Curry with Chicken), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kaeng Pa Kai (Jungle Curry with Chicken) carries shellfish and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 220 kcal
- Protein
- 24 g
- Carbs
- 11 g
- Fat
- 8 g
- Fiber
- 4 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 1480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kaeng Pa Kai (Jungle Curry with Chicken) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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