lots of coconut milk in this easy and palatable dish


MAY 23, 09

RECIPE

Serves:

Ingredients
Chicken breasts: 300g (skinless and boneless)
Frying Oil: 3 tbsp
Onion: 1/2 (large)
Garlic: 1 clove
Coconut milk: 1 cup
Yogurt: 1/4 cup
Fresh ginger: 1/2 tbsp (grated)
Curry powder: 10 tsp
Salt: 3/4 tsp
Pepper: 1/8 tsp
Water: 3tbsp

1. Peel and chop the onion into whatever portions you feel like eating I guess lol. Dice the garlic and grate the ginger.
2. Add 2tbsp of oil to a pan and when hot, saute half the onion till tender
3. Add the chicken, already cut into 1" bite-sized pieces. Saute till lightly browned then remove the chicken
4. Add the remaining 1tbsp of oil and sautee the garlic and rest of the onion till tender, then drain the oil.
5. Add the yoghurt, coconut milk, salt, pepper, curry powder, water and grated ginger and bring to a simmer.
6. Add the chicken and let it simmer for about 10min
7. Serve with rice*

*Rice:
2 tbsp coconut milk
1 tsp coriander
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp cumin
2 cups (basmatic) rice
Add to rice cooker and cook!

(modified from original recipe here)

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I messed around quite freely with the recipe. For one thing, I halfed the amount of yoghurt while doubling the coconut milk (and added a little water for good measure), because I didnt like the taste of the yoghurt & also there wasn't enough sauce. I didn't realise how delicious coconut milk actually makes curry! Mmm. I also added way more curry powder than in the original recipe in order to change the curry from its sickly yellow colour to something more palatable...no luck there. Its the ginger making it so yellow I guess. The taste is not too bad. Not awesome Indian curry spicy but spicy enough to pass off as Indian curry I guess. Ha. What I like about the dish is that the ingredients are simple and easy to find, unlike most of the (authentic I guess lol) curry recipes I've seen.

The coconut milk rice was random messing around on my part. It needs more coconut milk + spices, because other than the yellow colour and faint hint of coconut milk (not bad) it pretty much just tasted like plain ol' basmati rice.

VERDICT: 6/10

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