Thai Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes

Prep time: 10 minutes

Cook time: 30 minutes

Serves: 2

Thai Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes

This authentic Thai yellow chicken curry is savory, sweet, and full of comforting flavors! Made with tender chicken thighs, creamy coconut milk, and hearty potatoes, it’s one of the best comfort food recipes you’ll want to make again and again. Plus, it’s super easy and ready in about 30 minutes. Better-than-takeout, I promise!

Ingredients

Steps

  • How to Cook Thai Yellow Chicken Curry with Potatoes:

    1. In a deep skillet or saucepan, add half the coconut milk over low heat. Stir in yellow curry paste and cook until the oil starts to separate (this is called “cracking” the coconut milk—it smells amazing!). Add the curry powder and the remaining of coconut milk. Simmer for 3–5 minutes.

      Coconut milk is being poured from a bowl into an empty black pot on a stovetop.A bowl of Thai Yellow Curry Paste is held above a pot containing coconut milk on a stovetop.Boiling curry sauce in the pot.A bowl of curry powder above the curry pot.A bowl of coconut milk above the curry pot.

    2. Season with palm sugar, salt, and fish sauce. Taste and adjust as needed. You want a nice balance of sweet, salty, and savory.

      A bowl of palm sugar is being holding above the curry pot.A bowl of salt is being holding above the curry pot.A bowl of fish sauce is being holding above the curry pot.

    3. Add the chicken thighs and pour in water. Simmer on medium-low heat for about 10–15 minutes, until the chicken is nearly cooked through.

      Adding Chicken to curry pot.A bowl of water above the curry pot.

    4. Add the potatoes and onion, and continue simmering on low heat for another 20 minutes, until everything is soft and the flavors have melded beautifully.

      Adding chopped potatoed and chopped onion to curry potCooking chicken in curry pot.A lid of cooking pot.

    5. Turn off the heat and serve hot with jasmine rice. Enjoy!

      Thai Yellow Curry with plate of rice

Recipe Notes

Tips

This easy Thai Yellow Curry features tender chicken and potatoes simmered in a rich, savory-sweet coconut sauce infused with Thai aromatic herbs.

Serve it over steamed jasmine rice for a comforting, flavorful meal.

Let me know what you think—I’d love to hear how it turns out! 💛