Ingredients

Directions

1. Cut chicken into pieces.
2. Heat the coconut cream, stir fry together with curry paste until fragrant.
3. Add the meat, and cook until the outside of the meat turns white, add coconut milk and bring it to the boil.
4. Add eggplants and let it summer for a while.
5. Season with fish sauce and sugar
6. Bring back to simmering point.
7. Add kaffir lime leaves, sweet basil, and chilli. Remove from heat.

Tip

You can find a pack of rice vermicelli in an Asian grocery store. If you cannot find or make rice vermicelli, you may substitute it with Somen; Japanese wheat noodle.

Popular throughout Southeast Asia, fish sauce can be any of various mixtures based on the liquid from salted, fermented fish. Usually made from anchovies or other small school fish. It's used as a condiment and flavoring, much as soy sauce would be used. Fish sauces may be flavored variously-such as with chiles or sugar-depending on the use. Asian markets carry a wide variety of these pungent sauces including nam pla (Thai), nuoc nam (Vietnamese), patis (Philippines) and shottsuru (Japanese). Fish sauce is also referred to as fish gravy.

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