Penang gai (chicken penang curry)

Chicken second courses Indian cuisine

With my freshly made Penang curry paste I decided to make a simple chicken curry, Penang Gai from 'The Big Book of Thai Curries'. The chicken curry looked really tasty and sounded pretty simple to make. Once again I found that I was missing a lot of the ingredients and I had to go in search of them. I was really pleased to find some Thai basil . I tried a leaf by itself and it was pretty good, having a distinct licorice flavour to it. I was not able to find the kaffir lime leaves and so I just