How to Cook Chicken Curry in Crispy Rice Cups

Serves: 6

Preparation time: 30 mins

Cooking time: 15 mins

Ingredients needed to make Chicken Curry in Crispy Rice Cups:

• 750 gm chicken thigh fillets, trimmed and chopped into 2 cm dices
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup basil leaves, finely shredded
• 3 cups cooked rice
• 2 ½ tbsp plain flour
• 1 onion, peeled and finely chopped
• 165 ml light coconut milk
• 1 tbsp store-brought Thai green curry paste
• 1 tbsp peanut oil
• 1 tbsp fresh lime juice

Cooking instructions for Chicken Curry in Crispy Rice Cups:

• Warm up your oven to 180 degrees C.
• Grease six ¾ cup capacity muffin pans with few drops of oil and line them with sheets of parchment paper.
• Crack the egg into a large bowl and beat in the flour until they blend together into a smooth mixture.
• Empty the cup of cooked rice into it and stir it into the mixture until well coated.
• Add ½ cup of this rice mixture into each pan and press firmly along the sides plus base, using moist fingers, to hollow out the centre and form pie shell.
• Pop the pans into the hot oven and bake them for 15 minutes or until they become firm and turn golden slightly.
• Take them out of the oven and set aside.
• Drizzle oil in a saucepan and heat until it shimmers.
• Throw in the onions and sauté, while stirring often, until it softens.
• Drop the chicken chunks into it and sauté further for 5 more minutes, while stirring from time to time, until they brown slightly.
• Spoon in the curry paste and give them a nice stir to coat well.
• Cook the mixture for 1 more minute and pour in the coconut milk.
• Stir to mix well and bring the curry to a boil over high flame.
• Reduce the flame to medium-low and bring it down to a simmer.
• Cook likewise for 10 minutes or until the curry turns thicker.
• Turn off the heat and add a splash of lime juice into it.
• Sprinkle the basil leaves on top and stir them into the curry to mix well.
• Spoon it into the baked rice cups and serve warm.

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