On Fridays, Denise, our in-housen cook, often makes the yummiest chicken curry for the Portfolio staff. The aroma alone is enough to distract most of us from work - but the taste is out of this world!
Denise (below) kindly shares her own recipe for Chicken Curry with our readers today.
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Denise’s Curry Chicken
(Serves 6)
To Buy:
-
1 Whole chicken, cut in pieces
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6 potatoes
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2x Onions
- Garlic and ginger
- 2x All stars / star anise
- 6 Cardamom pods
- 1 tsp Curry powder
- ½ tsp Tumeric
- 2 tsps Mother-in-Law spice
- 2 tsps Meat Masala
- 1 tsp 11-in-One
- 2 tsps Chicken Masala
(All spices and spice blends are available from Pick n Pay)
To make:
- Fry the onion with garlic and ginger, star anise & cardamom.
- When onion is brown, add chicken pieces and salt.
- When the chicken’s ''half done'', add potatoes.
- When potatoes are ''half done'', add masalas & all other spices
- Allow the curry to simmer, adding small amounts of water as needed to avoid it drying out.
- When potatoes are soft, the curry is ready!
- Add salt to taste
- Serve with basmati rice and sambals or a tossed salad
YUM YUM YUM!
