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Easy Panang curry with chicken and green peas in rich and spicy coconut sauce. Easy 20-minute homemade Panang curry recipe that is better than Thai restaurants. Serve the curry with steamed rice for a complete meal.
What Is Panang Curry
Panang curry is one of my favorite Thai recipes. It’s spicy, rich, creamy, savory and sweet.
You can make it with chicken, but beef Panang curry is also equally popular. For the vegetables, just add green peas or baby carrots to the curry.
My easy homemade Panang Curry recipe is very delicious and takes less than 20 minutes to make. If you follow my recipe, it will taste exactly like Thai restaurants. Serve the curry with steamed rice and you’ll have a complete meal.
Looking for more Thai curry recipes? Check out my Choo Chee Salmon and Thai Red Curry recipe!
Panang Curry Paste
While you can make the curry paste from scratch, I recommend canned curry paste for home cooks. You can get the canned curry paste from Asian stores or online at Amazon. For this recipe, I used Maesri brand curry paste.
I prefer Maesri brand because it’s sold as a small can and not a huge plastic tub. There is no waste of ingredients and you can keep it in the refrigerator for up to a month. Just wrap the curry paste in with plastic wraps after it’s open.
Vegetarian Or Vegetable Panang Curry
Vegetarians rejoice as you can turn this easy recipe into vegan and vegetarian friendly recipe. Instead of chicken or beef, you can use the following ingredients to make the curry healthy and vegetarian friendly:
- Tofu
- Tempeh
- Vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, green peas, bamboo shoots, eggplants, pineapples, etc.
- For the seasoning, you can just use salt instead of fish sauce.
Red Curry Vs. Panang Curry
Both types of curry are popular in Thailand as well as Thai restaurants outside of Thailand. Red curry is red in color, as the name suggests. It’s less spicy and sweeter.
Panang curry is orange in color, spice-laden with a richer and more complex spice structure. The curry is also thicker. Both curries are delicious nonetheless.
Frequently Asked Questions
The calories are 296 per serving, which is very low and healthy.
What To Serve With Panang Curry
This meal is best served with steamed rice, especially Thai Jasmine rice. For a wholesome Thai meal at home, I recommend the following recipes.
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Panang Curry
Ingredients
- 1 skinless & boneless chicken breast, cut into small cubes
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 tablespoons Panang curry paste
- 1/2 cup coconut milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 1/2 cup green peas, frozen
- 4-6 kaffir lime leaves, slightly bruised
Instructions
- Heat a pot with oil and add the Panang curry paste. Stir quickly until aromatic. Add the chicken and mix well with the curry paste, then incorporate the green peas, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, water, and seasonings.
- Lower the heat to medium and let it simmer for 8-10 minutes. Serve hot with steamed white rice.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
The best Panang curry ever. This is the only recipe you need!
Ben thanks for trying this Panang curry!
Do you have a recipe for Beef Rendang? Lived in KL and loved that dish.
Yes, please search for the recipe on the site.
Oh wow! Delicious. I used red Thai curry paste since I couldn’t find Panang curry. It was really good, and tasted very similar to the Panang curry I had in a restaurant last night. It was also very simple and fast.
Hi Lynn, yes, thanks for trying my Panang curry recipe.
Hi Jane, sorry for the inconvenience. This is a food blog and I do write about the dish, commentary and story about the recipe. The ads are to support the operations of this site. Thanks for your understanding.
I made this very quickly last night. I suppose you could say I committed “HURRY CURRY”.
LOL, yes and hurry and delicious curry.
Hi
I cooked this with 4 times the igredients. So I used 8 tablespoons of Panang Curry (actually just 4 heaped Tbsp but I count them as 8). After cooking for some minutes I realized this is gonna be really spicy. I took out probaly 1-2 tablespoons of curry that has not resolved yet. I was still very spicy. For me it was ok, but for my wife it was too spicy. Next time, I think I will use half of the curry paste meaning 4 Tablespoons. I think one should change the recipe to just 1 tbsp. ;) Other than that, it was really nice.
I am going to make it with edamame and chicken plus fresh curry paste. As I do have all the ingredients except peas.
Recipe to try!! Yummy!
Looks great .. I will try this week. Quest … what brand of panang curry pls?
Mae Ploy or Maesri is fine.
I want to make this but I live in Cyprus and the range of curry pastes available here is not great.. any suggestions on another curry paste to use or spices i can add to recreate the flavour of the penang curry paste please? i bought some red thai curry paste here a few weeks ago, never heard or seen the brand anywhere before and it was awful