Your home will smell amazing while you are making this.
This is a recipe for Thai-style chicken that is cooked in a beautifully aromatic coconut curry, along with roasted vegetables. To the eggplant and red pepper I added cauliflower for my version, because I like to jam as many veggies in as possible. Feel free to substitute your favourite vegetables for any of these. I served this on jasmine rice.
This recipe was found in the cookbook Whitewater Cooks with Passion by Shelly Adams.
If you have trouble finding lemongrass that isn’t dried out or woody, here’s a product that you might be interested in. It’s lemongrass in a tube, made by Gourmet Garden. So until I can extend our summer growing season in Vancouver and grow it in my garden, I’ll be using this product. I plan to freeze portions of it so that it extends its shelf life.
What you need:
- 1/2 cup green curry paste (but I used yellow)
- 400 ml can of coconut milk (not light)
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 6 kaffir lime leaves (or the zest of a lime, which I used)
- 1 stalk lemongrass, cut in thirds and bruised (or 1 tablespoon lemongrass paste)
- 8 chicken thighs, bone in, skin on
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 long Japanese eggplant, diced
- 1 red bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 head cauliflower, broken into florets
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup thinly sliced mini cucumbers
- 1 cup chopped cilantro
- juice of 1 lime
What you do:
- Combine the curry paste, coconut milk, fish sauce, sugar, lime leaves and lemongrass in ovenproof baking dish.
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Rub the chicken on all sides with salt, then place it in the sauce in the baking dish with the skin facing up. Cover with a lid or foil and bake for 1 hour.
- Prepare rice if you are using it.
- Remove the lid from the chicken dish and bake for 30 minutes, until the chicken skin is browned and crispy.
- Meanwhile, on a baking pan, toss the eggplant, cauliflower and red peppers with olive oil. Roast in the oven for the last 30 minutes with the chicken.
- Arrange the roasted vegetables around the chicken on a serving dish. Garnish with the cucumbers and cilantro. Squeeze lime juice over the dish and serve.
Trust in Kim (she will guide thee) 
Looks tasty 🙂