Servings: 4
Ingredients
Curry
- 2 tbsp rice bran oil
- 1 chopped onion
- 5 tbsp mild-medium curry powder
- 1 tsp cornflower
- Some Chicken Stock
- 1 Tin chopped Tomatoes
- 1 Shredded roast chicken large bits
Sambal
- 1 chopped tomato
- 1 small chopped onion
- 1 pinch of cumin powder
- 1 pinch of salt
- juice of 1 lemon
- handful of chopped parsley fresh
Instructions
Curry
- Heat two tablespoons oil in a pan,(medium heat)
- Add one chopped onion and sweat down but don't brown.
- Turn up heat a little and add curry powder (I usually use four to five teaspoons of mild to medium curry powder. Mix into the onions and fry a little of this is to release the flavour of the curry powder.
- Sprinkle over about a tablespoon of flour (cornflour is best) and fry a little more (this is to enable the sauce to thicken, and frying the flour takes away the floury taste!)
- Slowly add chicken stock made up of water and stock cube how much? Play it by ear and add enough to make a fairly thick sauce as when you add the chicken to heat through the moisture from the chicken will thin it down a little.
- You can also add a tin of chopped tomatoes to the sauce.
- Add pre-roasted chicken bits and cook for 20-30 mins on simmer to reduce a bit. Dont over stir as you will break up the bits of chicken and you will get mush. 🙂
- Serve on rice.
Sambal
- Mix all ingredients together and leave for 2 hours or so to blend. (cover and put in fridge)
Notes
This is a pretty mild curry so I normally add a bit more curry powder to the mix (double) make sure you do this at the beginning (so you can fry it) you cant do this later, if you want to make it hotter later you need to fry up the curry powder in a seperate frying pan and then add it, otherwise you wont release the flavour.
As is tradition in my family create small bowls with chopped apples, bananas, coconut, and peanuts. You then add these to the top of the curry along with the sambal. (Thats the way it is served in South Africa.)
Dont forget the “Mrs Balls Chutney“, curry isnt the same without it, the south africans out there will know what i mean. They sell it in most UK supermarkets now, or find a South African shop, they will definitely have it.
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