Recipe for the day: Chicken Curry

Chicken Curry

• 1 chicken (1 kilo)
• 2 large onions, quartered
• 3 bell peppers, red & green, strips
• 2-3 stalks celery (1 1/2′ long)
• 3 potatoes (big cubes, fried)
• 2 tbsp. curry powder
• 1/2 tsp. ground pepper
• 1 tsp. vetsin
• 1 tbsp. patis
• 1 tsp. salt
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed

• 1 cup thick coconut milk or evaporated milk
• 1/2 cup water

Filipino Spicy Chicken Curry Cooking Instructions:

• Cut chicken into small serving pieces.
  

• Saute garlic until light brown; and finely chopped onions.
  

• Stir till onion is wilted.
  

• Add chicken. Pour in patis, stir for 3 minutes.
  

• Season with curry powder, pepper, vetsin, and water.
  

• Cover and simmer until chicken is half done.
  

• Add the rest of the ingredients except the coconut milk (or evaporated milk).
  

• Add milk when chicken is done. Keep stirring until liquid boils.
  

• Cook for another 5 minutes.

  Tips: For a more spicy chicken curry add 2-3 minced hot pepper (siling labuyo).

Reference:

I got this recipe from PinoyRecipe.net. The picture above is also not the actual picture of my dish, but it's the closest thing I got after following the recipe above. You can actually check the site where I got the photo, it also has an there. :)

How I did it:

It's my second time to cook Chicken Curry but I still find it hard to get the right taste for this one. I used Evaporated milk here since I don't have coconut milk, but it's okay to use it anyway. I also pan fried the potato and it served just fine. I also don't have celery so my version of chicken curry only has onion, garlic, potato, chicken, red bell pepper and curry powder in it.

My Mistake:

I guess I put the potato too early, instead of putting the curry powder first as instructed, so it turned out to be a little overcooked. When I first tried cooking curry, I guess I over simmer it that the milk almost curled. Good thing I made sure to cook in low heat this time and just turned off the heat on time, enough to simmer the milk but not over to curl it. :)

Trivia:

From Wikipedia.

Chicken Curry is a common Punjabi cuisine dish popular in South Asia (specifically India), Bangladesh, East Asia, as well as in the UK, theU.S. and Caribbean. A typical curry consists of chicken in an onion, tomato, and yogurt-based sauce, flavoured with ginger, garlic, chillies and a variety of spices, often including cumin, cinnamon, cardamom. Chicken curry is sometimes made with pre-made curry powder. Milk is sometimes added to decrease the spiciness.

Beginner's Take: What's up for the Newbie's Kitchen?

What's up for the Newbie's Kitchen?

Here you can find the following:

1. The recipe

- since I often base my cooking on internet recipe and cookbook, I will just post here the recipe together with their references, so you can actually see it for yourself.

2. How I did it.

- I am not that good with following recipes to the letter, I will also put here how I did it the noob's way.

3. My mistakes

- I often learn through trial and error since no one is around to actually tell me what to do and what's not to do. So I will also put my mistakes here so you won't have to repeat it. :))

4. Trivia

-I will also look for some enjoyable stuffs about recipe, origins of the food, etcetera, to make our cooking more fun.

This site is also open for comments, suggestions, tutorials, you can also submit your noob's recipe and so on.

Cooking is primarily what keeps our family and our household healthy so let's bear in mind to put some Love as a secret ingredient for our every dish. Surely, anyone who will take a bite of your cooking will taste how loved they are. So HAPPY COOKING! :)