Easy Peanut Butter Chicken

Juicy chicken fillets coated in a Thai red curry peanut sauce, served in a bowl with jasmine rice and crisp veggies. A scattering of thinly sliced scallions, fresh cilantro and chopped roasted cashews add a bright punctuation to this kicky dish. 

A delicious meal you may just start making every week.

This recipe holds some of the best flavors: a rich peanut sauce, enlivened with scallions, ginger, lots of garlic, coconut milk and of course red curry paste. It’s creamy, a little spicy and very hearty and savory. You can dig into these flavors after about 30 minutes of cooking.

First we whisk the peanut sauce together and marinade the chicken in this flavor bomb before being cooked. Then we sauté the garlic with ginger, simmer the sauce and add the chicken to hang out in all those flavors and continue to cook for a couple minutes. The result is a deeply flavorful dish with super-juicy chicken breasts.

RECIPE NOTES

You can mix the recipe up a little if you want to. For example, you can use chicken thighs instead of chicken breast. Or chopped peanuts instead of cashews. Serve with cucumber, roasted broccoli or green beans. Swap out the rice for naan. Whatever you do, just make sure to garnish with plenty of scallions, nuts, cilantro and some extra chili flakes. Enjoy!

Let me guide you through the recipe with this step-by-step VIDEO

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Yield: serves 2

Easy Peanut Butter Chicken

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts
• 250 ml/1 cup unsweetened coconut milk
• 100 g (1/4 cup + 2 tbsp) natural peanut butter
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 2 tbsp Thai red curry paste
• 1/2 tsp turmeric
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp honey
• juice from 1/2 lime
• 3 tbsp peanut oil
• 1/2 cup/120 ml unsalted chicken stock
• 4 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 tbsp grated ginger
• 1 tsp each: ground cumin, ground coriander, crushed red pepper flakes

for serving

• toasted cashew nuts, or peanuts
• fresh cilantro
• jasmine rice, or naan
• chopped scallions

Notes

Calories Per Serving: 512 kcal
Nutritional information is only an estimate. The accuracy of the nutritional information for any recipe on this site is not guaranteed.

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