Not Your Serious Chicken Curry

Submitted by Karen Elizabeth

"An easy curry, creamy and slightly sweet. My children loved this when they were young, my dad took the recipe back to Scotland and it became his staple chicken curry recipe. My mum still makes it, without the chicken, she just likes the sauce! Its versatile, feel free to adapt to your own taste. Its from Readers Digest, Quick & Thrifty Cooking"

 

• Ready In: 35mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 60 g butter or 60 g margarine
• 1⁄4 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 small apple, peeled, cored and finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 1⁄2 cups chicken stock
• 1⁄2 cup cream
• 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
• 4 teaspoons curry powder
• 1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1⁄4 teaspoon ground ginger
• 3 cups diced cooked chicken

directions

1. Melt the butter/margarine in a large heavy frying pan, over moderately high heat.
2. Add the onion and apple, cook for 5 minutes, or until tender.
3. Blend in the flour, add the chicken stock and cream, and cook, stirring constantly, until the sauce has thickened, about 10 minutes.
4. Stir in the salt, curry powder, cayenne pepper and ginger.
5. Add the chicken and cook, covered, over very low heat, for 10 minutes.
6. Serve with rice.
7. A sambal of chopped cucumbers, spring onions and radishes, moistened with a little white vinegar, is good with curry.

Reviews

[Cinnamon Turtle]

This was a great quick and easy curry. I used the sauce with Quorn chicken flavored tenders. It was a nicely sweet and mild curry. I actually added a bit of hot curry powder after tasting just to make it mildly spicy. Two cheers out of three for this one, but the one with sinus problems thought it needed more flavor. He was invited to take advantage of the powdered cayenne.

 

[Nasseh]

Absolutely delicious! I chopped the apple in my food processor so it was tiny. I placed all the ingredients but the cream & flour in my crock-pot then cooked for 4 hours. Next I added the cream & flour and cooked for another hour. I then pulled the chicken apart & added instant rice to the sauce. (I only used half the butter called for & 3 tsp of curry.) Made for Ramadan Tag

 

[Mrs. Anderson]

OMG! I have never cooked with curry before so i didnt know what to expect but it turned out really wonderful and tasty! I dont really like spicy things but this had just enough. It was very easy to make too! Thanks for the recipe Karen this is def. something im going to keep in my cookbook!

 

[I'mPat]

Made for a very enjoyable dinner over rice and the DH has said he would like to try again but that I add the onion in large pieces (had omitted due to his allergy if he ingests the onion) and even the DM thought it was good (from a women who doesn't like curry/spicy - we are educating her). I used 2 teaspoon of a mild curry and 2 teaspoons of a hot madras curry powder. I enjoyed the addition of the apple (I did give it a generous dose of lemon juice as I diced it about 45 minutes before I needed it but I think it inhanced the flavour of the dish). Thank you Karen Elizabeth, made for Recipe Swap #24 January 2009.

 

[Chef PotPie]

Not serious, maybe, but great for a quick dinner for those of us who love curry! I had leftover grilled chicken, and this recipe put that to great use. It was quick and easy. I added garlic, and more ginger. It was delicious. I served this on rice with some traditonal, (in our house anyway), mango chutney, peanuts, sambal oelek, and coconut. We enjoyed it very much!