Entrée — Quick Chicken or Vegetable Curry (India) by dvdlee

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Entree -- Quick Chicken or Vegetable Curry (India)
Submitted by dvdlee on August 27, 2004 at 10:08 am

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Entree -- Quick Chicken or Vegetable Curry (India)

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INSTRUCTIONS
I confess that my vegetable curry recipe is very simple plain and fast -- and I only use curry powder, not whole spices. I basically have ripped off the "Chicken Curry In A Hurry" recipe from "The Minimalist Cooks At Home" by Mark Bittman (1999, Broadway Books/Random House, ISBN: 0-7679-0361-7). This is a great cookbook and you should review a copy or buy it. It has a lot of good quick recipes for weekday suppers.

1 Tablespoon vegetable oil
1 medium onion, medium sliced (not diced)
1 & 1/2 teaspoons Sweet or Savory Curry Powder (Maharajah from Penseys)
3/4 teaspoon of Hot Curry Powder (Vindaloo from Penseys)
1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts (For Vegetable Curry I substitute mixed vegetables; whatever I feel like including eggplant, squash (yellow or zuchinni), tomatoes (added at the end), pea pods, carrots, potatoes, etc. etc.)
1 cup sour cream (I use reduced fat)
Salt & Pepper Minced
Cilantro (garnish)

Place the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion, some salt & pepper and cook until translucent (4-5 min.) Reduce heat to medium and add the curry powder (if using meat, only add 1/2 of the curry powder).

Season the chicken with salt & pepper and the remaining curry powder. Move the onion aside and add chicken (the chicken should be in one layer). Cook for a couple of minutes on each side until almost done, then remove. If preparing vegetable curry, add the vegetables that need to cook longer first (such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots), then add the other veggies when they are half done.

Add sour cream and stir constantly over the medium heat until the sauce is nice and thick. Return chicken to pan and cook another 2-4 minutes (until chicken is done).

(I use these quantities of curry powder to start -- I often add more, depends on my mood.)

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