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Thai Chicken and Rice Tray Bake

Here's how you make Thai Chicken and Rice Tray Bake
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  • Servings: 6
  • Prep: 20m
  • Cook: 50m
    • The following recipe serves 6 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • 1 kilogram chicken thighs. 6 large bone-in and skin on and trimmed
  • 1/4 cup Thai red curry paste
  • 1 tablespoon peanut oil
  • 1 lime, cut into 1cm slices
  • 1 brown onion, small and finely chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 3cm piece ginger, peeled and finely grated
  • 1 lemongrass stalk, white part only and finely chopped
  • 1 carrot, finely diced
  • 1 1/2 cups dry white long-grain rice, rinsed
  • 2 1/2 cups chicken stock
  • 200 grams green beans, trimmed and cut into 4cm pieces
  • 125 grams baby corn, thickly sliced
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1 green onion, thinly sliced diagonally
  • 1 red chilli, long red sliced to serve
  • Peanuts, roasted and chopped to serve
  • Mint leaves, fresh to serve
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan-forced.

  • Step 2: Place chicken and curry paste in a bowl and rub paste all over chicken.

  • Step 3: Heat half the oil in a heavy-based flameproof roasting pan over medium-high heat and cook lime for 1 minute each side or until charred and transfer to a plate and then add chicken to pan, skin-side down and cook for 3 minutes each side or until well browned and transfer to a plate.

  • Step 4: Wipe pan clean and heat remaining oil in pan over medium heat and add brown onion, garlic, ginger, lemongrass and carrot and cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until onion softens and then add rice and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes or until rice is coated in mixture and then add stock and bring to the boil.

  • Step 5: Place chicken on top of rice mixture and cover tightly with foil and bake for 25 minutes and then remove foil.

  • Step 6: Move chicken to one side and fluff rice with a fork and now add beans, corn, lime slices, fish sauce and lime juice to rice and stir to combine.

  • Step 7: Arrange chicken over rice and bake, uncovered, for 5 to 10 minutes or until rice is tender and chicken is browned and cooked through.

  • Step 8: Top with green onion, chilli, peanuts and mint and serve.

We hope you enjoy this recipe!

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