Oct 03 2008
Curry in a Hurry
Lip smackingly slurpily wonderful curry, which tasted like it had been cooking for hours…yet took less than half an hour from start to finish, and I got to sit down with a beer and some pistachios during that half an hour!
- Curry in a Hurry
I had been anticipating feeling a bit low last night, and so decided that comforting food and comfortable company were the way forward. This recipe advertised itself as something you could cook after work for friends (have everything in the freezer or cupboard and pick up the chicken on your way home kind of idea) and so seemed to fit the bill.
It all came together very quickly. Fry some spring onions, add secret magic ingredient thai curry paste (ours doesn’t look quite like the picture because we had just the right amount of red paste in the fridge vs absolutely no green curry paste, as called for, c’est la vie!) brown the chicken and then fling in coconut milk, chicken stock and interesting veg out of the freezer. I had never eaten a soya bean in its native state before, and yet curiously despite seeming quite exotic are readily available from Mr Bird’s Eye at the grim Scotmid at the foot of Leith Walk. Not what you would expect. They didn’t taste especially exotic, I must confess, more like a pea but with lots of flesh- quite satisfying in a mouthful.
We had this with steaming rice from the oven and a generous squeeze of lime juice over the top. Yes, our noses were streaming by the end but it was absolutely worth it. The chicken thighs had a lovely texture which I think I probably preferred to breast meat. That said I reckon with a bit of subsitution of broccoli and veg stock this would make an excellent veggie curry too.
We finished up with pudding; Nick did terribly well by professing to prefer the pink ice cream to the white without being forewarned that the pink was homemade No-Churn-Pomegranate wheras the white was shop bought vanilla (although it was the very finest Luca’s can offer!).
The left-over sauce from this (very liquid and with all the chicken gone) made an excellent high-mess soup for lunch today, with extra soya and fine beans thrown in and a nest of egg noodles stirred through. Fab!
[...] Luckily Nick had no life excuse and came round to help us with a Thai curry this evening. We had a good laugh and great food, which you can read about on Helen’s blog right now. [...]
we had a dinbar curry which was a lot heavier, with only copious gas as leftovers