Brazilian Chicken With Coconut Milk Sauce

Submitted by Sassy in da South

"Awwww the aroma will fill your house when this is cooking. I generally serve over rice, but pasta is nice too."

 

• Ready In: 1hr
• Ingredients: 15
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 1 teaspoon ground coriander
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
• salt, to taste
• pepper, to taste
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
• 2 jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 3 tomatoes, seeded and chopped
• 1 (14 ounce) can light coconut milk
• 1 bunch chopped fresh parsley

directions

1. In a medium bowl, mix the cumin, cayenne pepper, turmeric, and coriander.
2. Place the chicken in the bowl, season with salt and pepper, and rub on all sides with the spice mixture.
3. Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium heat.
4. Place the chicken in the skillet.
5. Cook 10 to 15 minutes on each side, until no longer pink and juices run clear.
6. Remove from heat and set aside.
7. Heat the remaining olive oil in the skillet.
8. Cook and stir the onion, ginger, jalapeno peppers, and garlic 5 minutes, or until tender.
9. Mix in the tomatoes and continue cooking 5 to 8 minutes.
10. Stir in the coconut milk.
11. You may add additional salt and/or pepper to the sauce, if desired.
12. Serve over the chicken.
13. Garnish with the parsley.

Reviews

[Rikki Lynn]

YUM! I've been bragging to everyone I know about how delicious this recipe was - it was definitely spicy but the coconut milk sauce really mellowed it out. And I couldn't help but feel like the combination of spicy and sweet gave it a very Indian feel... which is fine with me since I LOVE Indian food!<br/><br/>Anyway, delicious! Five stars! This is going to become a regular at my house. Not to mention it made FANTASTIC leftovers the next day. :*)

 

[lorraineinSpain]

This was so good, the only thing I added was a 1 1/2 teaspoons of sugar and added the chicken pieces back to the sauce to finish off cooking.Will definitely be cooking this again.

 

[LAFFY TAFFY]

This is an easy, flavorful dish. My family loved it. Instead of serving the sauce over the chicken, I cooked the chicken until almost done, then cut it into cubes and finished it off in the sauce.

 

[adopt a greyhound]

Great tasty dish. Made as written but only 3 breasts.

 

[French Canadian Chef]

Hadn't found a keeper in a while, this is definately one. It was delicious. I did tweak the heat, and I'm glad I did, only 1/2 tsp of cayenne (which will be dropped to 1/4 tsp next time) and only put one jalapeno, for my own taste, it was quite spicy, but oh so good. And I went with what was in the freezer, so I did half chicken breast, half thighs, cut in pieces, and as someone suggested, heated it all up in the sauce. YUMMM!!!