Poultry fricassee in coconut sauce

AUTHOR
Zackary Austin
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 collar Soup Greens
  • 1 (1.2 kg) ready-to-cook chicken
  • 1 TABLESPOON Oil
  • 1 red chilli pepper
  • 30 g fresh ginger tuber
  • 2 Sticks of lemongrass
  • 1-2 TEASPOONS Coriander seeds
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Soy sauce
  • 125 g Basmati rice
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 250 g pink mushrooms
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Butter or margarine
  • 1/2 can(s) (200 ml) Coconut milk (creamy)
  • 1 TABLESPOON Cornstarch
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Lime juice
  • 300 g green asparagus (extra thin, from the Asia Shop)
  • 1/2 bunch Coriander
  • 1 TEASPOON pink berries

Directions

  1. 1

    Clean, wash and cut the soup greens into pieces. Wash the chicken and pat dry. Heat oil in a pot. Fry the chicken on all sides over a high heat. Deglaze with 1 1/2 litres of water. Halve the chilli pepper. Cut ginger into slices. Clean lemon grass and cut into rings.

  2. 2

    Add soup vegetables, coriander seeds, chilli, lemon grass, ginger and soy sauce. Bring to the boil and cook over medium heat in an open pot for 1 hour. Skim if necessary. Remove the chicken from the pot. Pour broth through a sieve and measure 500 ml. Peel skin from the chicken. Let it cool down a little. Meanwhile put rice in 1/2 litre of lightly boiling salted water. Cook at low heat in open pot for 12-15 minutes. Remove the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces. Clean and halve the mushrooms. Heat the fat in a pot and fry the mushrooms until golden brown. Add measured stock and coconut milk. Bring to the boil. Stir starch with a little water until smooth. Thicken sauce with it, bring to the boil again.

  3. 3

    Remove the chicken meat from the bones and cut into pieces. Clean and halve the mushrooms. Heat the fat in a pot and fry the mushrooms until golden brown. Add measured stock and coconut milk. Bring to the boil. Stir starch with a little water until smooth. Thicken sauce with it, bring to the boil again. Add chicken meat and simmer for about 5 minutes. Flavour with lime juice. Drain rice, keep warm. Wash the asparagus and cut off the woody ends. Cook asparagus in boiling salted water for 2 minutes, drain. Wash coriander, dab dry and remove leaves. Mix rice with coriander leaves. Arrange fricassee with rice and asparagus on plates. Sprinkle with crushed pink berries

  4. 4

    Flavour with lime juice. Drain rice, keep warm. Wash the asparagus and cut off the woody ends. Cook asparagus in boiling salted water for 2 minutes, drain. Wash coriander, dab dry and remove leaves. Mix rice with coriander leaves. Arrange fricassee with rice and asparagus on plates. Sprinkle with crushed pink berries

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
730 kcal
CARBS
55 g
FATS
34 g
PROTEINS
52 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesMeatPoultry