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Curry Chicken — One of The Foods I Love to Cook
A favorite dish born in childhood and one I am good at
A land of many peoples
I come from a diverse world.
A country of several ethnic groups of people.
People whose culture lends itself to an exhilarating metropolitan of culinary delights!
Since we have been forced to spend greater amounts of time languishing at home, food has proved to be both a good servant and a bad master 🤐.
Curry is a favorite of mine ever since I can remember.
I am no top chef, but your girl can cook some good curry!
I can drop some curry on anything and make it de-lec-ta-ble!
This image above is from a curry chicken dish I cooked last summer and shared on my blog.
Curry is one of those truly versatile dishes that can be great as a stand-alone dish or as an accompaniment to enhance even the blandest of foods.
Curry gives it pizzaz!
Any meat or vegetable can be curried to add a variety of tastes that teases and delights the tongue.
Let me again say, “ I love curry in any form!”
This is one of the ways I make curry.
Ingredients
- 3 lbs chicken, cleaned, washed, and seasoned to your taste. (I love chicken with skin on as the fat adds something unique to the taste.)
- Add 6 heaping tablespoons of curry to the chicken, mix, and allow to marinate for about 4 hours, overnight if you have the time. The longer, the better.
- Chop/grate 4–6 medium cloves of garlic
- Chop/grate 1 medium onion.
- A teaspoon of grated or chopped ginger is optional.
- 1 Tbsp of whole cumin seeds.
- I Tbsp Garam Masala powder.
- 2 medium Irish potatoes if you like.
- Salt to taste.
Directions
- Heat oil, I prefer coconut oil due to its numerous health benefits and sweet nutty flavor.
- Next, add the cumin seeds and allow them to bloom for a minute, allowing their scent to perfume the air.
- Add your garlic, but do not allow them to burn.
- Next, add your chicken and allow it to fry stirring occasionally.
- Add your Garam Masala powder to the pot stirring occasionally. (Do not allow the curry to burn, this ruins the taste.)
- Then add water or stock of your choice.
- Add your salt and any additional seasonings and cover while cooking.
- Taste occasionally and season as the need arises.
- I dice and add my potatoes when the meat is 2/3 way cooked as they will complete the cooking process together.
- Complete and serve as you desire.
Enjoy
There are so many varieties of curry and just as many ways to cook them.
You may cook them with or without coconut milk.
Some curries are for darker meats like goat, duck, lamb, etc.
I cook many types of curry dishes and I enjoy them all.
If you have never tried a curry dish, you are missing a great thing. Go ahead and give it a try!
This is one of my ways, do share some ways that you incorporate curry into your cuisine.
Thank you for reading!
This story was inspired by Sharing Randomly and Trista Signe Ainsworth's @Thank You Notes post — What food do you love to cook or bake? What dishes are your favorites? What food memories do you have from your family or friends?
And if you are wondering why I love coconut oil, look no further, read about its health benefits below —
Pene Hodge is a mom, a nurse, a writer. She writes because she must. She loves people and is committed to sharing and gleaning knowledge for the betterment of all.