# Roast Chicken Over Thai Green Curry Rice

This is a delicious roast chicken cooked in a pot over Thai green curry rice, perfect for offsetting the rich flavors of Christmas.

- Cuisine: Thai
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Sweet potato
- Onion
- Garlic
- Courgette
- Shallots
- Green curry paste
- 1 tin Coconut milk
- Whole chicken
- Oil
- Salt
- Lime
- Rice
- Spinach
- Herbs

## Instructions

1. Peel the sweet potato.
2. Dice the sweet potato into small cubes.
3. Chop the shallots.
4. Add the chopped shallots to a pot with some oil and cook.
5. Add the diced sweet potato to the pot with the shallots.
6. Slice and chop the garlic.
7. Add the chopped garlic to the pot with the other vegetables.
8. Dice the courgette.
9. Add the diced courgette to the pot.
10. Stir all the vegetables together in the pot.
11. Add green curry paste to the vegetables in the pot.
12. Stir the curry paste into the vegetables.
13. Add the solid part of the coconut milk to the pot.
14. Stir the coconut milk into the mixture.
15. Pour the liquid part of the coconut milk into the pot.
16. Place a whole chicken on top of the vegetable and curry mixture in the pot.
17. Drizzle oil over the chicken.
18. Season the chicken with salt.
19. Place the pot with the chicken into the oven to bake.
20. Remove the cooked chicken from the pot and place it on a roasting rack.
21. Squeeze lime juice into the curry mixture.
22. Add leftover cooked rice to the curry mixture in the pot.
23. Stir the rice into the curry mixture.
24. Add spinach to the pot.
25. Stir the spinach into the mixture.
26. Place the chicken back on top of the rice and curry mixture in the pot.
27. Return the pot to the oven until the chicken skin is crispy.
28. Drain any remaining juices from the chicken into the pot.
29. Add chopped herbs to the pot and stir.
30. Shred some of the cooked chicken meat and add it back into the curry rice mixture.
31. Stir the shredded chicken meat into the rice.
32. Serve the chicken leg over the Thai green curry rice.
33. Add a side of shredded cabbage as a garnish.

## Equipment

- Pot
- Chopping board
- Knife
- Oven
- Tongs
- Spoon
- Roasting rack

## Tips

- Roasting a chicken in a pot over other ingredients allows the chicken fat to infuse into the base, creating deeply toasty and delicious flavors, while keeping the chicken juicy and the skin crispy.
- Drain all juices from the chicken back into the rice mixture for extra flavor.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DS2hccKjBC-/?igsh=dHl2YXg1MTdocXU3
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/9d7abf1f-6bf5-46e6-99cd-6d539f85e437
- Extracted: 2026-01-03

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