My Peanut Butter Chicken is packed full of flavour and ready in 20 minutes! This Thai Peanut Chicken is a great mid-week meal, with no fussy ingredients!
I promise you right now, there is no better use for peanut butter than this recipe!
Something magical happens when you mix the peanut butter, lime and chilli to turn this into a lip smackingly great sauce. I love anything Thai, but for once you don’t need all the fish sauce, shrimp paste, tamarind, garlic etc. to get that amazing taste.
This recipe was made as part of our  20 minute Tuesday series on YouTube which includes super tasty recipes like my Pan Fried Salmon with Spaghetti, One of Chis’s favourites Crispy Chilli Chicken, awesome Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps and many more quick and easy meals.
Peanut butter – which is something that I HATE on it’s own bleugh! (sorry peanut butter lovers) is 100% the star of this dish.
Those red chilli add a great hit of heat, but feel free to leave them out if you don’t like it spicy.
It’s all on the table in about 20 minutes, so this is a great mid week meal too.
I’ve been making this for years now, it’s one that my mum passed down to me. I still have the recipe scribbled on a scrap of paper, dotted with oil spots from about 10 years ago! Mum’s version also has beansprouts in, which I include sometimes, along with broccoli or mange tout or whatever bit of veg I have around.
If you’re making this for kids who don’t eat chillies, I’d suggest leaving them out, dishing their portions up, keeping them warm and adding the chopped chillies to the rest of the pan. Then just stir through for a minute or two.
If you’re anything like me and LOVE these Thai flavours then why not try one of these too:
Seafood Laksa
Thai Peanut Pork
Thai Yellow Fish Curry
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The Peanut Butter Chicken Recipe:
20 Minute Peanut Butter Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 3 chicken breasts chopped into bite sized chunks
- 1 large onion peeled and sliced
- 1 heaped tbsp ground coriander
- 2 heaped tbsp smooth peanut butter check if you need it to be gluten free, it usually is though
- 1 red chilli chopped finely (I use fresno chillies) - this is optional - leave out if you don't like heat.
- juice of 2 limes
- 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) chicken stock water + 2 stock cubes is fine (use bouillon for gluten free)
- 200 g (7 oz) green beans ends chopped off and sliced into short lengths
To Serve:
- boiled rice
- 1 red chilli sliced into thin strips
- 1 small bunch chopped coriander (cilantro)
- A blob of sweet chilli jam also tastes great!
- 2 tbsp toasted peanuts dry cook in a hot pan for 2 minutes until lightly browned)
Instructions
- If serving with rice, put the rice onto cook first, then you can cook the rest of the meal whilst the rice is boiling.
- Heat the oil in a large pan that has a lid, over a medium-high heat. Add in the chicken and cook, turning regularly, until sealed (about 2-3 minutes).1 tbsp olive oil, 3 chicken breasts
- Add the onion and continue to cook for a further 2 minutes, then stir through the ground coriander.Â1 large onion, 1 heaped tbsp ground coriander
- Add in the peanut butter, chopped chilli, juice of one of the limes, and the stock. Stir, bring to a gentle bubble, then place the lid on and simmer for 7-8 minutes until slightly thickened. Check on it and stir a couple of times to make sure it doesn't catch.2 heaped tbsp smooth peanut butter, 1 red chilli, juice of 2 limes, 300 ml (1 1/4 cups) chicken stock
- Add in the green beans, taste and add in the remaining lime juice if needed. Give everything a stir, and leave to cook for another 5 minutes with the lid off. You can add a splash of water if it's starting to look too dry.200 g (7 oz) green beans
- Serve with boiled rice, sprinkle with chopped chillies (or sweet chilli jam), coriander (cilantro), and toasted peanuts.boiled rice, 1 red chilli, 1 small bunch chopped coriander (cilantro), A blob of sweet chilli jam also tastes great!, 2 tbsp toasted peanuts
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Equipment:
In order to make this Peanut Butter Chicken recipe you will need:
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- A good Kitchen knife. I have recently bought this Dalstrong one and love it.
- Chopping Board
- Measuring Jug
- Juicer
- Measuring Spoons
- AÂ frying pan/skillet
- Wooden or Silicon Coated Spoons. We have just bought these and love them.
- Rice Steamer.
This is a remake of a recipe I first published in May 2014. Do you want to see how bad my photograpy was then? Ok here goes (cringe):
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I made this tonight and it was
delicious. I added sugar snap peas and broccoli. I will be making this again for the family.
Delicious !!!! Thanks for sharing the recipe I made very spicy !
Very bland, and doesn’t taste like Thai food at all.
Followed the recipe to the letter.
I tried this recipe last night, quite bland in taste.
However, it is an OK option for a fast last minute dinner.
Easy . to make very tasty few ingredients, all in only 20 mins’ Good also you can add whatever else you fancy or any flavour.Thank you will return to your site and recommend.
This was absolutely delicious, a real make again dish. Absolutely loved it. Thank you
Suggest you add the limes after squeezing and remove before serving!
Absolutely fabulous nothing left highly recommend
Uhhhhh this is delicious. Just made it and we wolfed it down! Thanks for the awesome recipe xx
Omg I made this tonight with whole earth peanut and coconut butter – instead of the chopped chillies I added sweet chilli sauce at the end. Thoroughly delcisious and I think it will definitely become one of my weekly staple dishes.