A Simple Keto Recipe – Chicken Thai Green Curry

I love Thai Curries. I spent a few months travelling around Thailand when I was younger, it is a wonderfully strange place. I tell you what as well, there isn’t many overweight Thai people. Yet their food is really satisfying, fresh and tasty.

Like all good Keto recipes, they can be amended at will. You can make them spicy or mild, and you can add whatever veg you want. I obviously skip the rice, and in this version there are carrots and mangetout. Which are higher carb than some may be able to handle, so just add whatever veg you want.

A great thing about this meal, is my wife can eat the same meal as me. She just has a bit of rice with it. She believes in Keto, but it didn’t suit her. She follows the Perfect Health Diet now, which is also a sensible way of eating.

Ingredients – Serves 2

For the Thai Green Curry Paste

1 Medium Green Chilli

2 Cloves Garlic

1 Lemongrass stick

1 Lime

Fresh Coriander

Tsp Coriander powder

Tsp Cumin powder

For the Curry

4 Chicken Thighs – £2

1 tbs Coconut Oil – 20p

1 Can of Coconut Milk – £1

2 tbs Fish Sauce – 20p

1 Carrot – 5p

100g Mangetout – £1

Instructions – Prep Time: 10 minutes. Cooking Time: 20 minutes minimum

Take the ingredients for the paste. Cut the lime in half and squeeze the juice into a mini food processor/blender. Chop the remaining paste ingredients and add to the blender. Blitz it into a paste. Add a bit of water if needed.

Take your wok (or equivalent), heat the coconut oil. Then add the paste, then coconut milk, fish sauce, and the chicken. Bring it to the boil, then simmer until the chicken is cooked.  Depending on how much time you have, depends on what you do with the chicken. If you have a while, put the thighs in whole and simmer on a low heat for longer. If you have less time, dice the chicken and cook on a higher heat.

Use whatever veg you like, in any way you like. I prefer just to cook the veg in the sauce with everything else. I think harder veg goes better in these curries, like peppers, carrots and mangetout etc; but really put in whatever fits your version of Keto.

The full meal per serving; you are looking at around 700 Calories, Total Carbs 15g (10%), Protein 38g (22%) and Fat 53g (68%). These figures are taken from MyFitnessPal, so you could argue the figures up and down a bit but you get my point.