Gang Garee Gai


By Ivan Hawkes
October 19, 2025


My version of a yellow chicken Thai curry. It has more spices than a typical yellow curry.

Ingredients

QuantityMeasureIngredient
3tbsoil
2.5kgwhole chicken (broken down)
2tbsyellow curry paste
1cupginger, garlic, onion paste
1.5tbsturmeric
1tbscoriander seeds (roasted and ground)
1tbscumin seeds (roasted and ground)
2wholecinnamon sticks
1tspwhite pepper (ground)
1tspkashmiri chilli powder
2canscoconut cream
1cubechicken stock
3-4tbsfried shallot
4wholelemongrass (stalk)
6leaveskaffir lime leaves
1tspsea salt
2tbspalm sugar / jaggery
1.5tbsfish sauce
1tbslime juice

Directions

  • Toss the oil into the pan and heat it to 200c. Alternatively, fry out some coconut cream until it separates out into oil.

  • Add the yellow curry paste to the oil and allow it to fry out.

  • Add the garlic, ginger, and onion paste to the oil and fry it out.

  • Blend up the coriander and cumin seeds in your spice blender. Add them to the frying oil.

  • Add in the turmeric, cinnamon sticks, white pepper, and kashmiri chilli. Fry out.

  • Top up with coconut cream. Break a chicken stock cube down in your hands and crumble it ino the pot.

  • Add the chicken pieces, turn it all over.

  • Toss in the fried shallot, lemon grass, and kaffir lime leaves.

  • Add salt to taste.

  • Add in palm sugar or jaggery, whichever is available in your area.

  • Add in fish sauce and lime juice. Stir, taste, adjust as needed.


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