Green Thai Chicken Coconut Curry

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!!

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 Curry, which has been in the top 5 most popular recipes on my entire website for the past 6+ months. This is just a green version rather than red. 

I am a huge Thai curry fan 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.

There’s natural sweetness from the sweet Vidalia onions, carrots, and the coconut milk, the lime juice add the perfect acidic notes to balance the flavors. I love all the textures and flavors in every bite from the tender (but not mushy in the least) zucchini and carrots, the juicy chicken, along with fresh cilantro.

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

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 one of my favorite authentic Thai green curry recipes!

Here’s how the Thai green curry is made: 

1. Sauté the onion over medium-high heat in a large skillet until softened.
2. Add the diced chicken to the skillet and cook until done.
3. Add the garlic, ginger, and coriander and cook until fragrant.
4. Add the coconut milk, carrots, zucchini, Thai curry paste, salt, pepper, and reduce the heat.
5. 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! 

Is This Green Curry Spicy?

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.

If you have made other of my curry recipes which all use Thai red curry paste, the green seems much mellower and less spicy than the red which is why I used the whole jar.

What to Serve with Green Chicken 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. 

Can This Green Curry Recipe Be Made Vegetarian? 

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.

Can This Recipe Be Made in Advance? 

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. 

Tips for Making Thai Green Curry

The great thing about curries, which is totally different in this context than ‘curry powder’ and here I mean of mixture of vegetables and protein in a sauce, 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 think of curries as a stir-fry-meets-soup, and there no rules with what to add to either those in my book. Enjoy all the wonderful flavors and dig in.

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.

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Green Thai Chicken Coconut Curry

By Averie Sunshine

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!!

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes minutes

Servings: 6

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Equipment

• Thai Kitchen Gluten Free Green Curry Paste, 4 oz

Ingredients  

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• ▢ 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

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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

Serving: 1, Calories: 511kcal, Carbohydrates: 32g, Protein: 34g, Fat: 28g, Saturated Fat: 20g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Cholesterol: 80mg, Sodium: 1196mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 7g

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.