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Filipino Chicken Curry
This Filipino chicken curry has a savory, sweet curry sauce with juicy chicken and crisp vegetables. Perfect on its own or over rice.
Original recipe: urbanblisslife.com
- Yield:
- 6 servings
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Cook:
- 20 min
- Total:
- 30 min
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Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 carrots, peeled and chopped
- 1 red bell pepper, cored, seeded, and roughly chopped
- 1 green bell pepper, cored, seeded, and roughly chopped
- 2 medium baking potatoes (or 1 large), peeled and cut into cubes or small wedges
- ½ cup diced yellow onion
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 1-inch piece of fresh ginger root, peeled and minced
- 2 pounds chicken (mix of thighs and drumsticks)
- 1 can (15-ounces) coconut milk
- 1 Tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 2 Tablespoons curry powder
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ½ teaspoon kosher salt
- ¼ teaspoon ground black pepper
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large pan, skillet, or Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the carrots, both bell peppers, potatoes and sauté just until the edges are browned, about 2-3 minutes.
- Remove the vegetables from the pan and set aside in a bowl.
- Add the onions, garlic, and ginger to the pan and sauté just for 1 minute, to soften.
- Add the chicken and brown on all sides.
- Once the chicken has browned, remove from the pan and transfer to a bowl. Set aside.
- If there are browned bits of charred garlic, onions, and ginger on the bottom of the pan, pour a little chicken stock into the pan and scrape up with a wooden spoon. If there are a LOT of browned bits, go ahead and carefully use the wooden spoon to remove them from the pan. If there are a few browned bits, it's okay to leave them in for now.
- Add the remaining chicken stock, fish sauce, and coconut milk. Stir to combine.
- Add the curry powder, paprika, salt, and pepper. Stir.
- If you see a lot of browned bits still in the curry sauce at this point, feel free to strain the sauce through a fine mesh sieve or strainer into a large heatproof bowl. Discard the brown bits and return the curry sauce into the pan.
- Add the chicken back to the pan/pot, lower the heat to medium, cover, and cook for about 20 minutes. Check on the chicken halfway through and use tongs to turn the pieces over to the other side; return the cover and continue cooking.
- At 20 minutes, uncover and add the carrots, bell peppers, and potato back to the pan. Cook uncovered for about 5-6 minutes, or until the chicken is all fully cooked through (see Notes).
- Serve immediately over rice.