Sous Vide Chicken with Penang Curry Sauce
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This simple Penang Curry recipe takes all the best things about Penang curry and adds tender and moist sous vide chicken. A pitfall of homemade curries is often overcooked chicken, but with sous vide you can be assured that won't happen.
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Ingredients for 2
2 chicken breasts
2 tbs coconut milk
Salt and pepper
2 tbs cooking oil
4 tbs Penang curry paste
1 cup coconut milk
1/4 cup Thai basil leaves (or regular basil), plus extra to garnish
1 tbs palm sugar (or light brown sugar)
1 tbs fish sauce
2 small red chillies, chopped
Directions
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Step 1
Preheat Anova sous vide machine to 140F (60C).
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Step 2
Seal the chicken in bags with 2 tbs of coconut milk, salt and pepper, put into the water bath and set timer on your Anova to 1 hour.
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Step 3
With 10 minutes left on the chicken, fry the Penang curry paste in oil for a few minutes until fragrant, then add coconut milk and simmer for a further 5 minutes.
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Step 4
Add the fish sauce, palm sugar and 6 Thai basil leaves, simmer for 5 more minutes then take off the heat.
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Serving
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Step 0
Slice the chicken and arrange it on serving plates, pour sauce over the slices, scatter chopped chillies over the top and place Thai basil garnish in the centre.