Curried Chicken or Shrimp with Cinnamon Basmati Rice

Submitted by Lubie

"A healthy, quick-cooking meal that tastes great."

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 14

ingredients

• 2 oranges
• 1 lb large shrimp, peeled and deveined (tails on) or 1 lb chicken, cut into 1 inch pieces
• 1 tablespoon hot curry powder
• coarse salt
• fresh ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 small onion, cut into 1/4 inch dice
• 2 stalks celery, strings removed,cut into 1/4 inch dice
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1 cup tomato juice
• 1⁄2 cup heavy cream
• cinnamon basmati rice, with
• golden raisin
• 1 sprig fresh oregano (to garnish)

directions

1. Using a citrus zester or the small holes of a box grater, zest oranges.
2. Squeeze juices of oranges into a small bowl.
3. Set zest and juice aside.
4. In a large bowl, combine half of the zest with the shrimp (or chicken), 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder, 1/4 tsp.
5. salt, and 1/4 tsp.
6. pepper.
7. Toss to coat.
8. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
9. Cook shrimp until bright pink, 2 minutes per side.
10. (Or cook chicken pieces until juices run clear.) Transfer to a plate.
11. Heat remaining tablespoon of oil.
12. Add onion, celery, dried oregano, and remaining 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder; cook until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes.
13. Add orange and tomato juices; cook until liquid starts to thicken, aabout 8 minutes.
14. Return shrimp (or chicken) to skillet and heat thoroughly, about 2 minutes.
15. Stir in cream.
16. Add remaining orange zest; season with salt and pepper.
17. Serve over Cinnamon Basmati Rice with Golden Raisins and garnish with fresh oregano.

Reviews

[Tellok]

We enjoyed this very much. I actually used half chicken and half shrimp. I'll try this again in a few days and will use cracked pepper and thrown in a cardamon or two at step 13 and see if that works. Note that steps 4, 5 and 6 are one sentence. Thanks!