Spicy Chicken Curry & Rice
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Total: 20 mins
A fiery dash of Sumatran curry paste adds its fragrant, peanutty, chilli-spiced heat to this curry’s rich, coconut milk sauce. Bubbled with succulent pieces of organic chicken and tender veg, served with white basmati to soak up all the flavours.
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713 kcal
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Ingredients you'll need
  • 150g white basmati rice
  • 250g diced chicken leg
  • 1 onion
  • 250g cherry vine tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp Sumatran curry paste
  • 200ml coconut milk
  • 100g baby leaf spinach
  • 1 lime
From your kitchen
  • 500ml boiling water
  • Sea salt
  • 1 tbsp olive, sunflower or coconut oil
  • 2 tbsp cold water
You'll need
  • Small pan with lid
  • Measuring jug
  • Large pan with lid
Step by step this way
  • 1.

    Fill and boil your kettle. Tip the rice into a small pan, pour in 300ml boiling water and add a pinch of salt. Cover, bring to the boil then turn the heat right down and simmer for 8 mins, till the water has been absorbed and the rice is tender. Take the pan off the heat and set aside for 5 mins, lid on, to steam and finish cooking the rice. It will keep warm in the covered pan.

  • 2.

    While the rice cooks, put a large pan on a mediumhigh heat. Add 1 tbsp oil and the diced chicken leg. Fry for 6-7 mins, turning the chicken once or twice, till lightly browned all over.

  • 3.

    While the chicken fries, peel and finely chop the onion. Halve the cherry tomatoes. When the chicken has browned, add the onion and tomatoes to the pan with 2 tbsp water and a pinch of salt. Pop on a lid and fry for 3-4 mins till the onions are glossy and the tomatoes are starting to collapse.

  • 4.

    Add 1 tbsp Sumatran curry paste to the pan. Cook, stirring, for 1 min. Pour in the coconut milk along with 200ml hot water from the kettle. Stir to mix, pop on a lid and simmer for 8 mins till the chicken is cooked through. Stir now and then to stop the sauce sticking.

  • 5.

    Fork the baby leaf spinach into the pan and squeeze in a little lime juice. Stir to wilt the spinach, taste the curry and add a little more salt or lime juice if you think it needs it.

  • 6.

    Fluff the rice and divide it between a couple of warm bowls or plates. Top with the chicken curry and serve with the remaining lime sliced into wedges for squeezing.

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