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.