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Our Chicken Curry Is The Weeknight-Friendly Dinner You Should Reach For
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6/25/2024
Looking for an easy, weeknight-friendly curry? This chicken curry is IT. It’s rich, saucy, perfectly spiced, and comes together in less than an hour.
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What's up, y'all? It's Brooke in the Delish Kitchen studios,
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getting ready to make a flavor-packed, cozy winter staple, chicken curry.
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Curries come in a lot of different forms,
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but they're usually attributed to the cuisine of Southeast Asia,
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particularly India and Thailand.
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When it comes to curries like the one we're making today,
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they're actually a little bit more British than they are Indian.
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British curries are flavored with curry powder,
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which is something that was actually created in Britain.
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It wasn't created in India.
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British curries are typically a little bit thicker and sweeter
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than curries that you would actually find if you were in India or Thailand.
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So that's what separates British curries from Indian curries.
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So just know that this one is leaning a little bit more on the British side.
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It's a little bit thicker,
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but it does have some of that tomato-y sourness that you would find in an Indian curry.
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The reason the Brits have such an affinity for curries and other Indian-flavored things
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is because they colonized India in the 1800s.
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So a lot of those flavors and spices became really common with British cuisine.
00:56
To get started on the base for this curry sauce,
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we're going to blend some onions in the food processor until they turn into an onion puree.
01:03
Then we're going to dump that out and add some chopped jalapenos,
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a little bit of chopped ginger, and eight cloves of garlic.
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We're going to do the same thing we did with the onion and just blend that up.
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And that's where the sauce will get most of the flavor from.
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To help the jalapeno, garlic, and ginger to form into a sauce,
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we're going to add a half a cup of water just to keep everything moving in the food processor.
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We've got our aromatics all blended up and ready to go.
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So we're ready to start building the base of the curry sauce.
01:29
It's very simple.
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Other than the aromatic ingredients, we just have a little bit of curry powder
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that we're going to toast in some oil just so it can get nice and fragrant
01:38
and really have that flavor penetrate the sauce.
01:41
Once you've got your onion puree in the pot with that toasted curry powder
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and a little pinch of salt, you're going to let this cook down for about five minutes
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until it loses a lot of that liquid that came out
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when we were blending the onions in the food processor.
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You want this to sort of look like an onion paste before you start adding the blended jalapeno.
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Then we're going to add our jalapeno mixture, a little bit of salt, and some tomato paste.
02:04
We're going to cook all that down until the tomato paste starts to turn a really deep red
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and then it's time to blend the sauce one more time.
02:14
Oh my goodness.
02:15
This smells so incredibly good.
02:18
To finish this sauce, the last step is to put it back in the food processor
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with some tomato puree and a little bit of whole milk yogurt.
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That's going to help fortify the sauce a little bit to make it nice and rich and creamy.
02:30
I got this sauce for our chicken curry all blended up in a food processor.
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As you can see, it's pretty blended, but there's still some chunks to it.
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Working with a food processor, you'll probably always have a couple of chunks.
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So since I want to get this super duper, super duper smooth, I'm going to turn to my Vitamix.
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I'm going to blend the sauce up in there until I can get it as smooth as humanly possible.
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Y'all, that Vitamix is the truth.
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It definitely did the trick to get this sauce a lot smoother.
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And again, chunky sauce isn't necessarily a bad thing.
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I just prefer the mouthfeel of a slightly smoother sauce.
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Next thing we got to do with this sauce is return it to our pot.
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We're going to add a cup of water to it and bring it to a simmer.
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For chicken curry, dark meat is going to be your best bet.
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We went with a boneless, skinless chicken thigh this time.
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We went with boneless because boneless is just easier to work with,
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although bone-in does tend to have a little bit more flavor.
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It's not really the kind of difference that you would actually notice
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in a sauce that already has this much flavor.
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Another thing, dark meat won't overcook and become really, really tough.
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It's super forgiving.
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So even if you let it go for a little bit longer than the 20 minutes it's going to take
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to cook in this sauce, you won't notice.
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It's not going to be super tough and super chewy.
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So do yourself a favor and go with dark meat.
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We're going to season this chicken with a little bit of salt on both sides.
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Then we're going to add it to our pot of simmering curry sauce
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and let it cook for about 20 minutes or until it's completely cooked through.
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If you're using an instant read thermometer,
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it should register at least 165 degrees for the chicken thigh to be totally cooked.
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Once we're done with that, we're going to sprinkle in that garam masala
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and bust out some steamed rice and this will be pretty much ready to go.
04:07
It is so unbelievably fragrant in here.
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All those spices and aromatics that we used in that sauce.
04:13
And I can smell the curry powder.
04:15
It just smells like a warm pot of coziness.
04:21
Oh, wait.
04:22
Oh, no.
04:23
The cilantro.
04:26
I was moving a little too hastily
04:28
and I forgot to top this with a little bit of fresh cilantro
04:31
just to add a little bit of brightness.
04:34
Oh, that was a close one.
04:37
Okay, now it's time to try.
04:41
Mm-hmm.
04:47
That chicken thigh is so, so tender in the sauce.
04:54
It's so packed with flavor.
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This is like a symphony of different flavors that are packed into this curry sauce.
05:00
I mean, I can taste a little bit of everything.
05:02
I get the onion, I get the jalapeno, the ginger, the garlic, that curry powder, of course.
05:08
This is the kind of thing I could eat over and over and over and over and over and over again.
05:12
And honestly, that jalapeno gave this the perfect level of heat.
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You could definitely make it spicier if you're more of a fan of spicy curry,
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but this is a very good place to start.
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And it's a crowd-pleaser.
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If you want more crowd-pleasing and cozy recipes just like this one,
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keep it right here at Delish.com.
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