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Friday 11 April 2014

Best Homemade Chicken Curry Recipe!

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I've always loved a yummy chicken curry that had a good, decent amount of burn to it. This recipe came about when I was doing Slimming World  a couple of years ago; I needed something that was completely free of syns on the plan, but tasty too. Since then I've adapted and changed it somewhat - but it can still remain relatively healthy with a couple of swapsy ingredients.
 
This is one dish I don't mind making for the family, because everyone loves it - I don't get any of the usual complaining when announcing 'We're having a curry for dinner kiddos'.

I make this at least once a week; it's one of our favourite dishes.

This is the recipe as I make it right now, however if you want a lighter calorie dish, you can substitute the cream and vanilla extract for a Mullerlight Yogurt (The Vanilla one with chocolate sprinkles) and the peanut butter can be swapped for Coconut Milk or you can add both, it's up to you.

This recipe is based on feeding 6 people.
What You'll Need:
2-3 tbsp Olive Oil
4 x Chicken Breasts
1-2 Red or Green chillies with the seeds left in
4 x Medium Red Onions 
1 x White Onion
500g Passata
3 tbsp Medium Curry Powder
2 x Chicken oxo cubes
4 x Cloves of Garlic
2 x tbsp Crunchy Peanut Butter
1 x tsp Mixed Herbs
1 x tsp Cinnamon Powder
1 x tsp Ginger (fresh or powdered)
1 x tbsp Coriander
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
3-4 Freshly Chopped Tomatoes 
200ml of Fresh Cream (near room temperature)
Salt and Pepper to Taste
OPTIONAL: 1/2 tsp Chilli Flakes 
Basmati Rice  


The Method:
1: Boil your water for the rice first - I never ever stir my rice, and I never rinse it either - I allow it to simmer until the water is almost gone, then cover with the saucepan lid and leave to steam off the heat for as long as possible. This allows the rice to be fluffy and perfect. 

 2: Whilst the rice is cooking: Take a large saucepan and add the olive oil. When the oil has heated, add the fresh chillies, red and white onions then cook until the onions have softened.

3: Dice the chicken and add to the chilli's and onions.

4: Whilst the chicken is cooking, add the curry powder and mix in. (you may want to add another tbsp of olive oil at this point, if the mix appears too dry.) Also add the coriander. 

5:Add the passata to the pan and mix in with the chicken, chillies and onions. At this point, add the garlic, chicken stock and mixed herbs. Leave to simmer for around 2-3 minutes. 

6: Add the Peanut Butter and/or Coconut Milk, Vanilla essence, Cinnamon and Ginger.

7: It's good to taste the curry at this point to decide whether you need to add chilli flakes or not. Remember, if you are adding yogurt or cream later, this will cool the curry down quite considerably. 

8: Add the freshly chopped tomatoes, and salt and pepper to taste.

9: Turn the heat off and allow the curry to cool slightly (around 3-4 minutes should be fine). Add either your cream or yogurt. To stop the cream curdling in the curry, make sure it has been out of the fridge for at least 30 minutes before using. Pour the Cream/Yogurt onto the top of the curry and without stirring, leave for 2-3 minutes (this allows the cream/yogurt to heat gradually) then gently stir through into the curry. 

10: Serve with flurry basmati rice and a sprinkle of fresh parsley on top - maybe a beer too!


Voila, curry nights will never be the same again :)

Hope you enjoy this, let me know if you try it and if you have success - I'd love to hear your feedback!

 


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7 comments:

  1. Yum! I've been looking for a good chicken curry recipe, so I'll definitely have to try this one. :)

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    1. Let me know if you manage to follow it ok :)

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  2. Saved this and will definitely try it out. Thank you, Emma. :)

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    1. Hope you enjoy it Eric.......I've already altered it slightly since writing this. Adding raisins and dark chocolate ;) yum!

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  3. Hey!
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    Hannah xo

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  4. this looks so good! chicken curry is one of my favorite dishes so I'll definitely try this out!

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    1. It is really very good. I could eat it every night for dinner - which is quite worrying ;)

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