One Thing I Ate: Comfort food chicken curry 🍛
We could all use some.
Hello and welcome back to Five Things I Ate! This week, a classic comfort food. Read past posts here, and follow my Instagram @fivethingsiate.
This week was approximately four years long, and I spent most of it frantically trying to finish research with rapidly disappearing data while downing espresso shots, so I don’t have Five Things I Ate worth reporting on. I did, however, manage to make one great comfort meal, which I feel we could all use right now.
Comfort food chicken curry 🍛
Serves 3-4, with plenty of fluffy white rice on the side.
Loosely based on Just One Cookbook.
Quick enough to make a weeknight, and even better the next day.
Ingredients:
olive oil
1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs
1 large carrot (get those JUMBO carrots at the Asian grocery store)
2 red potatoes
1/2 sweet onion, diced
1 tsp fresh ginger
1 tsp grated garlic
3.2oz/92 gram box Japanese curry (https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Curry-Sauce-Mix-Medium/dp/B0099IJBDQ?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER)
1 tbs ketchup
1 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs honey
2 cups water
Start the rice: soak and wash and put in rice cooker/stovetop. I’m not going to tell you how to make your rice.
Prep veggies:
Peel carrot and potatoes.
Cut into rolling wedges, or rangiri.
Dice onion.
Grate garlic and ginger.
Cook:
In a large sauté pan/chef’s pan with a lid (or dutch oven), add a healthy glug of olive oil. Add in onions, garlic, and ginger, plus a healthy pinch of salt. Cook till soft.
Meanwhile, cut chicken thighs into bite sized pieces.
When onions are wilted, add chicken thighs, and cook till browned on both sides, flipping a few times.
Add 2 cups water, ketchup, soy sauce, and honey.
Stir in potatoes and carrot.
Cover lid and bring to a simmer on medium low for about 15 mins, or till potatoes and carrots are fork tender.
Open lid and add in curry cubes. Break the cubes up (there will be five) and throw in four to start. Cook and stir with lid open till thickened. You may or may not need the last cube.
Enjoy hot with rice.
Enjoy,
Soph
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