Ingredients for Thai-style red curry with chicken

• 1⅓ cups coconut cream
• 4 tablespoons Thai Kitchen brand (or your favorite brand) red curry paste, or to taste
• 3 tablespoons fish sauce
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3 kaffir lime leaves, minced, or zest of 1 lime, minced, plus the juice of the lime
• 1 medium Chinese eggplant, cut in half the long way, then sliced into ½-inch pieces crosswise
• 1 (15-ounce) can light coconut milk
• 7 ounces snap peas
• 1½ cups pineapple, from a 20-ounce can of sliced pineapple, each slice cut into 8 wedges (save the remainder for another use)
• 8 cherry tomatoes
• 12 ounces grilled or roasted chicken breast slices, frozen
• ¾ cup Thai basil leaves, roughly chopped, loosely packed

For serving:

• Cooked jasmine rice

Preparation

Heat a wok or heavy saucepan over medium heat, until hot, but not smoking. Carefully add the coconut cream to the wok: the coconut cream may spurt when it first touches the hot surface of the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, for about 2 minutes. Add the curry paste, fish sauce, sugar, and kaffir lime leaves to the wok; stir, and simmer for 2 more minutes.

Stir in the eggplant and the coconut milk. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low, and simmer for 5 minutes. Stir in the snap peas, pineapple, cherry tomatoes, and the chicken. Turn the heat up to medium, bring to a low boil, then turn the heat back down to low, and simmer for 3-4 minutes, just until the chicken is heated through.

Serve hot, over rice.

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How did you use your last set of chicken breasts?