Friday, August 23, 2013

My "go-to" recipe

I am not well renowned for my cooking, with good reason - I can't cook. But there is one thing that I can cook, a fail safe I have to fall back on (and even it has gone wrong many times!). I like to call it Sarah's Famous Chicken Curry, and it's so simple that anyone can make it. It only takes around 25 minutes which means it's great to make when looking after a littlie. It's also gluten free, as my dad is a coeliac, so we have to have some tricks up our sleeves for when he comes to eat us out of house and home! I usually make a batch and freeze whatever is left over, ensuring we have lots of homemade food ready for days when we just can't be bothered. You'll see from the recipe that I am not one for using quantities or specific timings - which is probably why everything else I attempt turns out badly! This isn't fancy, but it does the job every few weeks.

Ingredients:
2-3 chicken breasts
Chicken stock
1-2 tbsp curry powder (we use a Tesco own brand which is gluten free, in medium)
Cornflour dissolved in water
1 onion, chopped
1 green apple, chopped
1 tin chopped pineapple
Handful raisins



Instructions:

1) Brown the chicken and onion in a pan, I use vegetable oil for this. I use a wok to make this curry, simply because I cook everything in a wok...

2) Make up some chicken stock, using 1-2 stock cubes, depending on how much curry you are making. I usually make around 1l of stock. 

3) When chicken and onion are cooked, add in the  curry powder and stir together with chicken and onion for 1 minute, then add the desired amount of stock. Add in the cornflour to get the required consistency.
(This is where mine has previously turned into Sarah's Famous Chicken Curry Soup. If that happens, cook off as much liquid as possible, and add more cornflour, while panicking)



4) Throw in the pineapple, apple chunks and raisins, and allow to heat through.

5) Serve with rice, poppadums, naan bread, other Indian accompaniments, and enjoy!



It sounds so simple! So how come I always end up flustered...?

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