Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry
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This chicken and sweet potato curry is absolute comfort food goals. Thanks to the spices, it's gorgeously fragrant, and the addition of coconut milk makes it creamy.
Ingredients
- 8 Skinless and boneless chicken thighs
- 700 g sweet potato, cut into 2.5cm chunks
- 10 Curry leaves
- 5 Green cardamom pods
- 1 Onion, finely diced
- 3 Cloves garlic, finely diced
- 1 5cm piece ginger, peeled and finely diced
- 1 Green chilli, finely sliced and seeds removed
- 2 tsp. ground coriander
- 1 tsp. turmeric
- 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 1 Small bunch coriander
- 1 Lime
- 400 ml tin reduced fat coconut milk
- 100 ml Vegetable Oil
- Salt
Instructions
- Heat 50ml of vegetable oil in a heavy pan over a medium heat. Crush cardamom pods with the back of a knife and remove the black seeds. Add to pan with curry leaves and fry for 2mins. Add onion, garlic, chilli and ginger and fry gently for 8-10 minutes, until soft and slightly golden.
- Remove the onion mixture from pan and set aside in a bowl. Add rest of oil to the pan. Over a medium heat fry your chicken thighs until browned on both sides.
- Return onion mixture to the pan along with turmeric, cumin, coriander, sweet potato, coconut milk and 200ml of water. Mix well to combine and cook at a gentle simmer for 30 minutes or until the sweet potato is tender.
- Before serving squeeze in the juice of one lime, chopped coriander and season with salt.Serve with brown rice and steamed Bok Choi.
