Baked Chicken and Pumpkin Red Curry

Preheat the oven to 200C fan-forced. Place rice and 310ml (1 1/4 cups) cold water in a saucepan. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat to low, cover and cook for 15 minutes or until rice is cooked through. Stand covered until ready to serve.

Peel pumpkin and scrape out seeds. Cut into 2cm pieces. Cut onion into 1cm wedges. Cut chicken into 4cm thick slices.

Place pumpkin, chicken, onion, curry paste, fish sauce and oil together in a non-stick roasting pan and toss to coat. Roast for 15-20 minutes or until pumpkin is tender and lightly caramelised and chicken is just cooked through.

Remove from the oven, add coconut milk and spinach leaves and mix to combine, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Roast for a further 10-12 minutes until coconut milk is hot and bubbling.

Squeeze in lime juice and season with salt, pepper and sugar to taste. Pick basil leaves from their stems. Add half the basil leaves to the pan and stir to combine.

Spoon rice into bowls and top with curry and remaining basil leaves to serve.