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| Wednesday, January 25, 2006 |
| Easy Curry Chicken and Rice |
Will I ever again be able to cook a meal without having my digital camera close by? Not if Madame X has her way! I am sure someone out there has an amazing Curry Chicken and Rice recipe and will consider my dish as some poor imitation. But this dish is super easy to make and tastes good to me - so here we go...
2 Tbsp Olive Oil - $0.50*
2 Tbsp Curry Powder - $0.95*
Chicken Breasts - half small package cut into cubes - $1.88*
Red Pepper - half cut into small pieces - $0.83*
Orange Pepper - half cut into small pieces - $0.83*
Yellow Pepper - half cut into small pieces - $0.83*
Sugar Snap Peas - half the pkg. - $1.30*
Basmati Rice - two cups - $1.55*
Chicken Broth - 2 cans - $0.50 ea - $1.00
Total Cost - $9.67
Makes four large portions (I ate one for dinner tonight).
Cost per portion is $2.42
* I calculated this cost by dividing the portion used into the total cost of a larger package - consider it an estimate.
In Large pan heat 2 Tbsp Olive Oil. While pan is heating coat your cubed chicken with 2 Tbsp Curry Powder. Add Chicken to pan and brown until fully cooked. Lower heat under pan and add the cut up peppers, sugar snap peas, basmati rice, and cans of chicken broth. Stir mixture, cover, and let simmer on stovetop for about 45 minutes (meal is done when rice is done).
The "planned overs" don't freeze well (hate the taste of frozen cooked rice), so if you make this dish know that you will be eating it for a couple of days in a row. The sugar snap peas are nice and crunchy and the small amount of chicken meat in the dish works since the rice is cooked in chicken broth. I love chomping on cut peppers so this dish came out of my always having cut-up peppers in a zip lock bag in my fridge. However, if peppers are not your thing you can make this with chopped tomato and greenbeans. Pretty much any colorful vegetable will do. Just make sure they are fresh since they will be cooked in the broth. Canned veggies would not work well since they would turn to mush.
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| posted by Boston Gal @ 7:30 PM *
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I'm a big fan of curry food, so you just made my day with this one. I'll have to add the ingredients to my weekend shopping list.
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I've never really tried curry, but it looks yummy!
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Damn. I'm hungry now. I knew I should have waited till tomorrow before reading. Those pictures were fair warning! :-)
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looks absolutley delicious and the price can't be beat. Thanks for sharing. Bet you had a wonderful meal!
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Looks good, but my experience with curry is it has a ticker sauce, kind of like stew but with more flavors. And you pour the curry over the rice. If you want I can email you a picture.
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Maybe I should have clarified and called it Curry Powder Seasoned Chicken and Rice...
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I'm a big fan of curry food, so you just made my day with this one. I'll have to add the ingredients to my weekend shopping list.