Thai Coconut Chicken

If you love Thai food, this Thai Coconut Chicken is for you! The chicken is marinated in coconut milk loaded with Thai flavours which adds flavour and richness to the chicken.

Served with a Peanut Coconut Sauce to really drive home the coconut flavour, this Thai Chicken is fantastic for the BBQ, stovetop or roasting. Serve this with a side of jasmine rice or Thai Fried Rice!

Thai Coconut Chicken

If you’re new to coconut marinades, you’re going to really love this Coconut Chicken recipe! Coconut milk is a brilliant marinade – it’s a flavour carrier, infusing the chicken with all the tasty flavours you’ve mixed into the marinade.

But not only that, it also adds richness into the chicken, which most marinades do not do. Coconut milk has a fair amount of fat in it which infuses into the chicken.

So this Thai Chicken is not only injected with terrific Thai flavours, it’s tenderised and infused with what I describe as “butteriness” from the coconut milk. It’s absolutely divine!

Thai Coconut Chicken Marinade

While this Thai Coconut Chicken may not be strictly authentic Thai, the marinade is loaded with authentic Thai ingredients that are found in classic Thai recipes, like homemade Thai Red Curry and Thai Green Curry Pastes.

• Garlic and ginger

• Chilli

• Lemongrass (fresh or convenience paste)

• Spices: coriander, turmeric, curry

• Sugar

• Fish Sauce

• Coconut milk

It also just dawned on me that the ingredients in the Thai coconut marinade is like a mash up between this incredible Southern Thai Tumeric Chicken and Gai Yang, the popular Thai grilled chicken which is a street food favourite.

Coconut Peanut Sauce for Coconut Chicken

The coconut flavour from coconut marinades is actually quite subtle, like in this western style  Coconut Marinated Chicken.

So what I like to do is serve it with a Coconut Peanut Sauce, just to really drive home the coconut flavour. It’s simple to make but tastes thoroughly authentic Thai, made with just a handful of ingredients:

• Coconut milk

• Peanut butter

• Hoisin Sauce

• lime juice

• Garlic

• Chilli paste

Also, it’s quite a neat way to use up a whole can of coconut milk in this recipe – because despite good intentions, I never seem to use up leftover coconut milk!

Here are some suggestions for things to serve on the side to complete your Thai dinner menu:

• plain steamed jasmine rice, a fluffy coconut rice (trust me, it’s not coconut overload!) or make a fresh lime rice using this Lemon Rice recipe (switch lime for lemon);

• a side of Thai Fried Rice (minus the chicken, maybe add some chopped veg);

• leafy greens or a garden salad tossed with the dressing in this Thai Chicken Salad or Thai Beef Salad; or

• serve with plain slices of tomato and cucumber (pictured) -this is a very common way vegetables are added to a meal in Thailand.

And if you love Thai food, be sure to have a browse of my entire Thai food collection which includes all your Thai takeout favourites! – Nagi xx

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Serve these on the side!

• Steamed Jasmine rice, Thai Fried Rice, Pineapple Fried Rice or Coconut Rice

• Crunchy Asian Slaw on the side – great all rounder Asian salad that goes with all Asian foods

• Asian Sesame Dressing for any fresh salad or steamed vegetables

• Asian Mushroom Ramen Noodles – another great all rounder!

If you love cooking with coconut milk, you’ll love these!

• Easy Coconut Curry

• An amazing easy Thai Coconut Noodle Soup

• Salmon in Coconut Lime Sauce

• Coconut Pot Roasted Chicken

• Coconut Marinated Chicken

• Thai Coconut Chicken

• Thai Green Curry and Red Curry

WATCH HOW TO MAKE IT

Thai Coconut Chicken recipe video! IMPORTANT: The video says Cumin instead of Curry Powder, the VIDEO is WRONG! It should be curry powder. The recipe is right. Sorreee!!! 🙈

LIFE OF DOZER

Currently overseas with friends in Fiji. As usual when I’m away, Dozer is on his own holiday with the golden retriever boarder.

His second favourite person in the whole world (only after me – I think 🤔), he has much more respect for her than me. She’s also great for getting dogs in shape – it’s like a Biggest Loser Boot Camp. Not that Dozer needs to lose weight now. But when I (accidentally) made him a bit tubby when he was younger, I boarded him with her and when I got back, he was a lean, mean, fighting machine!!! Ba ha ha!!!

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