Green Thai Curry with Chicken — 💚🧡🙌🏻 An EASY, one-skillet green curry that’s ready in 20 minutes and tastes BETTER than from a Thai restaurant!! It’s healthy comfort food that tastes AMAZING!
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Easy Thai Green Curry Recipe
This green chicken curry is ready faster than you can call for takeout and tastes just as good – or better! – than you’d find in a Thai restaurant. It’s a spinoff of this Thai Chicken Coconut Red Curry, which has been in the top 5 most popular recipes on my entire website for the past few years!
I am a huge fan of Thai curries and was craving something with Thai green curry paste, coconut milk, and veggies. This easy, one-skillet curry that’s ready in 20 minutes was absolutely perfect.
There’s chicken along with sweet Vidalia onions, zucchini, and carrots. Everything simmers in creamy coconut milk that’s spiced with garlic, ginger, coriander, and Thai green curry paste before adding lime lime juice and cilantro.
It’s hearty yet healthy comfort food that’s layered with Thai-inspired flavors and is naturally gluten-free.
Ingredients for Green Thai Curry
To make this Thai green curry with chicken, you’ll need:
- Coconut oil
- Sweet Vidalia onion
- Chicken breasts (or chicken thighs)
- Cloves garlic
- Ginger
- Ground coriander
- Coconut milk
- Shredded carrots
- Zucchini
- Thai green curry paste
- Kosher salt and pepper
- Lime juice
- Fresh cilantro (bonus if you have kaffir lime leaves or Thai basil leaves as garnishes)
- Sugar
Note: Scroll down to the recipe card section of the post for the ingredients with amounts included and for more complete directions.
How to Make Green Thai Curry
This recipe for Thai green chicken curry comes together quickly and easily, but tastes like it simmered for hours on the stovetop! It’s my favorite authentic Thai green curry recipes! I’ve had readers tell me it tastes like a dish they’d get in Thailand.
Here’s how the Thai green curry is made:
- Sauté the onion over medium-high heat in a large skillet or pot until softened.
- Add the diced chicken to the skillet and cook until done.
- Add the garlic, ginger, and coriander and cook until fragrant.
- Add the coconut milk, carrots, zucchini, Thai curry paste, salt and pepper to the pan, and reduce the heat.
- Allow mixture to gently boil for about 5 minutes over medium heat or medium-low before adding the remaining ingredients and serving up a big bowl of it!
Love Thai Food?
If you love Thai food and want to experiment with dishes besides curry, I also recommend making homemade chicken pad Thai yourself!
Curry FAQs
In my opinion, there is very little heat from the Thai green curry paste in this Thai green curry chicken. For this green curry I used the entire (small) jar, 4 ounces of the store-bought paste. I realize this may be too much for some people so start with 1 to 2 tablespoons, and work up from there.
But it’s not spicy and in order to get the robust curry flavor profile I was looking for, I needed the whole jar. Other brands may be more concentrated and robust but I haven’t experimented yet. I’ve never tried to make homemade green curry paste – but it’s a bucket list item.
Very easily! Simply omit the chicken and substitute a can of chickpeas (garbanzo beans), drained well. Or you can saute extra-firm pressed tofu in place of the chicken for a vegetarian Thai green curry.
Absolutely! In fact, curries are one of the few dishes I actually prefer making in advance because the flavors mingle as the leftovers sit in the fridge.
Absolutely! The great thing about curries is that you can add whatever vegetables or legumes you like. For example, feel free to add cauliflower, broccoli, snow peas, stewed tomatoes, red bell pepper or any bell peppers, sweet potatoes, chickpeas, (make sure to check out my Sweet Potato and Chickpea Coconut Curry) edamame, frozen peas, fresh spinach, kale, or whatever you have lurking in your produce drawer or freezer.
I could drink the coconut milk broth or prepare it as a soup – it’s so good and it keeps the chicken so juicy and moist. I used full-fat coconut milk but have used lite in previous curry recipes and it may not be quite as rich, but it’s still great.
What to Serve with Green Thai Curry
We enjoy this Thai green chicken curry served over jasmine rice and were thrilled to be devouring and slurping down our curry at home and in the peace of our own kitchen. Basmati rice or naan would be my other serving suggestion.
I also like to serve my green chicken curry with a lime wedge and fresh cilantro for added flavor.
Recipe Video Tutorial
Green Thai Chicken Coconut Curry
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Ingredients
- 2 to 3 tablespoons coconut oil, olive oil may be substituted
- 1 medium/large sweet Vidalia or yellow onion, diced small
- 1 to 1.25 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast, diced into bite-sized pieces
- 3 cloves garlic, finely minced or pressed
- 2 to 3 teaspoons ground ginger or 1 tablespoon fresh ginger, finely chopped
- 2 teaspoons ground coriander
- one 14-ounce can coconut milk, use full-fat for a richer/thicker result but lite may be substituted
- 1 to 1 ½ cups shredded carrots
- 1 large zucchini, diced into bite-sized pieces
- 2 to 8 tablespoons Thai green curry paste, or to taste (I used the whole jar for this recipe, but prefer bolder flavors)
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, or to taste
- 1 to 2 tablespoons lime juice
- ¼ to ⅓ cup fresh cilantro or to taste, finely chopped for garnishing (basil may be substituted)
- 1 to 2 tablespoons granulated sugar, optional and to taste
- rice, jasmine or basmati or naan, optional for serving
Instructions
- To a large skillet, add the oil, onion, and sauté over medium-high heat until the onion begins to soften about 5 minutes; stir intermittently.
- Add the chicken and cook for about 5 minutes, or until chicken is done; flip and stir often to ensure even cooking.
- Add the garlic, ginger, coriander, and cook for about 1 minute, or until fragrant; stir frequently.
- Add the coconut milk, carrots, zucchini, Thai curry paste, salt, pepper, and stir to combine. Reduce the heat to medium, and allow mixture to gently boil for about 5 minutes, or until liquid volume has reduced as much as desired and thickens slightly.
- Add the lime juice, cilantro, and stir to combine. Taste and optionally add sugar, additional curry paste, salt, pepper, etc. to taste.
Notes
- Curry is best warm and fresh serves over rice or naan but will keep airtight in the fridge for up to 1 week.
- Adapted from Thai Chicken Coconut Curry.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Originally posted June 12, 2019 and reposted March 18, 2021 and September 15, 2023 with updated text.
This is one of the easiest and most delicious Thai curry recipes I’ve ever used. Creamy and flavorful, I highly recommend it!
Thank you for the lovely compliment, Bruce, that this is one of the easiest and most delicious curries you’ve ever used! I really appreciate your vote of confidence and that you highly recommend it! If you liked this one, my red and yellow versions have similarities – the overall creaminess, the intensity of flavor, although different flavors (since red vs yellow vs green) and diff veggies but give them a whirl and let me know what you think!
https://www.averiecooks.com/thai-chicken-coconut-curry/
https://www.averiecooks.com/yellow-thai-chicken-coconut-curry/
I used mostly what I had on hand added sweet potato and kale! Delicious. I do like it a bit more wavy so I think I would add in some chicken stock next time.
Thanks for trying the recipe Grace and for sharing your great photo, it looks scrumptious! The great thing about curries is that they are very flexible and you can always clean out the fridge and pantry with them. And yes, adjust broth to taste for next time.
I’m writing this review from Hungary, which demonstrates the worldwide reach of your recipe! :) This dish is absolutely amazing, restaurant quality and so easy to make. Thank you!
Thank you for the 5 star review and for your support from Hungary on the other side of the world! I am glad to hear that the curry turned out excellent for you and thank you for visiting my site!
Wow! so good… I’m on a low carb no sugar diet. So made a few changes.
I substituted the sugar with monk fruit sugar.
I served it on kojac noodles they only have 11cal 2.5 carbs per pack. I also added some extra veg, capsicum, spinach and peas. I don’t rate peas being in this though.
Thanks for the 5 star review, Chloe, and I’m glad this turned out so well for you and thanks for sharing the stats based on what you used!