Leftover Chicken Curry
Chicken curry, a top dish in the UK, made and enjoyed by millions. This recipe is one that has evolved over the years and comes out often. It's simple, quick, flexible, cheap and, most importantly, delicious!
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 551kcal
Cost: 93p, curry only
Ingredients
- 1 red pepper
- 150 g white potato
- 100 g onion
- 200 g white cabbage
- 400 g tomatoes tinned
- 300 g cooked chicken
- 30 g butter
- 80 g curry paste
To Serve
- 300 g brown rice
Instructions
- Prepare all the vegetables
- Saute them slowly in the butter until cooked through. Do not add the tomatoes until the vegetables are cooked through as the acidity in the tomatoes makes it difficult for the vegetables to soften.
- Add the curry paste
- Add the tomatoes and stir well
- Now add the chicken breast.
- If the meat is not cooked yet, bubble until it is white all the way through.I
- Taste and adjust for seasoning if necessary
- Too much liquid? Bubble fast, with the lid off, until reduced down. All done, leave to mature if you have time
- Serve with rice, nan and pickles
Notes
What changes can I make to this easy chicken curry
- Leftover turkey curry is one of the best things about Christmas week! Simply substitute turkey for the chicken
- Or use any other leftover roast meat from a Sunday roast
- Swap and change the vegetables, keeping the total quantity about the same.
- use swede, carrot, parsnip, sweet potato, pumpkin / squash, frozen mixed vegetables etc
- add a big handful of fresh or frozen spinach
- Add a tin of beans, kidney beans, cannellini beans, butter beans or black beans. Juice and all
How to reduce the cost of this chicken curry
- Use white cabbage, it's the cheapest vegetable
- Use oil instead of butter to fry the vegetables
- Omit the coconut
- Use curry powder in place of curry paste
- Replace the pepper with carrots
- You could even replace the meat element completely with a tin of beans, juice and all - this would also mean that your curry is vegan (if you use oil instead of butter)
Nutrition
Calories: 551kcal | Carbohydrates: 76g | Protein: 28g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 5g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 72mg | Sodium: 126mg | Potassium: 954mg | Fiber: 8g | Sugar: 8g | Vitamin A: 5183IU | Vitamin C: 81mg | Calcium: 106mg | Iron: 4mg
