West Indian Curried Chicken
From caribbeansailor 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 4
Subtly spicy with zesty curry
Ingredients
- 2 limes (or juice) shopping list
- 2-3 pounds chicken (thighs work excellent) but breast do too! shopping list
- 4 tablespoons olive oil shopping list
- 1 large onion chopped finely shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic chopped finely shopping list
- hot peppers to taste (remember they increase in intensity as they cook) shopping list
- 4 tablespoons curry (home made paste is very nice) shopping list
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme chopped shopping list
- 2 tomatoes coarsely chopped (do not add until later-you know why) shopping list
- 1 christophene peeled and cut into cubes (Chayote, Chocho, Chuchu, Xuxu)-Tropical squash from south America shopping list
- 1 large eggplant cut into cubes shopping list
- 1 pound pumpkin or squash peeled and cut into cubes shopping list
- 1 cup coconut milk shopping list
- salt and freshly ground peppercorns to taste shopping list
- 1 tablespoon rum (or to taste) shopping list
How to make it
- Cut 1 lime in 1/2. squeeze juice over chicken pieces and rub juice into chicken with cut lime
- heat 3 tablespoons of oil in large pot over medium heat
- pat chicken dry and brown in workable amounts until golden on each side-remove chicken and retain cooking remnants in pot
- gently saute onion, garlic and hot pepper until golden (no more than a few minutes)-add curry powder and thyme cooking for another minute while stirring constantly
- add all vegetables to curry mixture and stir until evenly coated
- add coconut milk and return chicken to pot-season with salt and pepper
- bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer covered for 30 minutes stirring occasionally-squeeze in lime juice remaining from cut lime-add rum-add more lime juice and rum if necessary
- taste for further adjustments
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I agree with joe, this sounds great, but also am baffled by what a christophene is?
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