Thai Chicken Curry

from The Thai Table
 
Ingredients
3 cups water
3-5 sprigs thai basil,
2 Tbsp fish sauce
1/2 lb thai eggplant, quartered
1 Tbsp red curry paste
1 cup coconut milk
1 chicken breast
 
Preparation
Cut up the chicken into bite size pieces. If you have this dish in Thailand, you will see that the chicken comes with bones. All parts such as legs and thighs can be used. The bones make the curry more flavorful. 

Pour half of the coconut milk into a large pot, over low to medium low heat. Add the red curry paste. Break up the paste and mix it with coconut milk. Stir constantly. Lower the heat if it splatters too much.

Add chicken when you see red oil bubbling on top. Stir and coat chicken with curry sauce. Add the eggplant when chicken starts to turn white. Add the rest of the coconut milk and water and the fish sauce. Let it boil until all the eggplant pieces turn dark and tender. The longer you boil the curry, the thicker the curry becomes because the eggplant disintegrates and thickens the sauce. Add the basil leaves just before you serve and make sure the leaves are submerged quickly in the curry to preserve the color. 



Serve hot with rice or rice noodles.