So I was looking for good zucchini today, for the recipe I wanted to make, and there were non in my local store, so I said "whatever, there is a market near my workplace, I will check there"... Surprise, surprise. Saturday, the market doesn't work...
So I asked one of my colleagues at work "Chinese or Indian?" with the intention to make neither and he said Indian...
So here it is, my easy to make chicken curry with rice and veggies...
013. Chicken Curry with Rice and Vegetables.
Here are the ingredients:
Now... The eagle eyed amongst you may have noticed the absence of the chicken in this chicken curry ingredients picture. Well spotted. The chicken is a deeply frozen breast, that was enjoying a nice melt down experience and missed the family photo.
Anyways. The rice - in a pot with salty water, on the stove, 1:4 rice to water, cause I don't cover the pot. Oh yeah, check often, cause it likes to stick to the bottom...
Meanwhile, chop the onion and the garlic...
What I like to do with the garlic is crush it with the side of the knife and then chop it as roughly or as finely as I want...
Now, when the rice is almost fully cooked, add part of the garlic, part of the frozen vegetable mix and some black pepper...
Basically I just made rice and vegetables...
The mix I'm using consists of carrots, sweet corn, pees, green beans and red pepper. 4 different colors, various flavors, shapes, textures, etc etc... Look at me being culinary snob again...
Meanwhile in chicken land... I chopped the boob onto bite-sized pieces.
A pan on the stove, an oil in the pan, the onion and garlic in the pan, the chicken meat with the onion and garlic, when done - the rest of the vegetables in the pan with the meat...
You know bechamel sauce? Yeah, this is what I'm going to make now with a twist...
Instead of flour only, I use curry powder and flour in 1:1 ratio. More curry will make the taste too strong, the more flour will be just beshamel with a bit of curry. So 1:1 ratio...
What I like to do for plating this meal is use large soup plate, use the rice to make a well, put the chicken in the hole of the well and cover the chicken with the sauce...
PS: Now, there are a couple great things about this recipe...
1. This is the most complex version of it. Almost everything you change may make the recipe simpler and easier to prepare. Remove the frozen veggies mix, remove the garlic, use potatoes instead of rice... It's just simplifying it...
2. You can adjust this thing according to your personal taste. You can use pork instead of chicken (done it, it works fine), use potatoes, be it mashed, french fries, saute, whatever instead of rice (done it, works fine), you may add more spices to make the taste more complex or remove ingredients to make the main flavors - chicken, rice and curry pop out more... It is extremely open to interpretation. Hell, you may use tofu for vegetarian tofu curry...
Now I use this version mainly because my father doesn't enjoy plain white rice, so i put vegetables in, and the chicken boobs are kinda expensive here, so i use the veggies to increase the quantity...
Works fine. I love it.
Enjoy.