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Japanese chicken curry

Name: Japanese chicken curry
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 1 tbsp cooking oil (vegetable oil); 400 g boneless thigh bite sized chicken, boneless; 2 large sliced onion; 1 large in chunks carrot; 2 medium in chunks potato; 3 1/4 cups water; 1/2 grated apple; 3 tbsp butter; 1/3 cup maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 2 tbsp curry powder; 1/2 tsp garam masala; 1 1/2 tbsp tomato ketchup (ketchup); 2 tsp soy sauce; 2 tsp honey; 1 tsp salt; 1 3/4 cups cooked short grain rice (sushi rice)

Thick, mild, sweet and savoury, a curry that hugs rice. India's cousin, raised in Japan.

60 minTime

32 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayA thick, mild roux curry with chicken, potato and carrot over rice.

The original

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32 gproteinsame

7 gfibresame

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Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Cooking oil (vegetable oil)1 tbsp

Chicken, boneless400 g boneless thigh, bite sized

Onion2 large, sliced

Carrot1 large, in chunks

Potato2 medium, in chunks

Water3¼ cups

Apple½, grated

Butter3 tbsp

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)⅓ cup

Curry powder2 tbsp

Garam masala½ tsp

Tomato ketchup (ketchup)1½ tbsp

Soy sauce2 tsp

Honey2 tsp

Salt1 tsp

Short grain rice (sushi rice)1¾ cups, cooked

Method

5 steps

1Brown the chicken in the oil, then add the onions and cook until soft and golden.
2Add carrot, potato, water and grated apple. Simmer covered until the vegetables are tender.
3Make the roux: melt butter, stir in flour and cook on low until light brown, then stir in curry powder and garam masala.
4Whisk a ladle of the cooking liquid into the roux, then stir it into the pot with ketchup, soy, honey and salt. Simmer 10 minutes.
5Serve with rice on one side of the plate and curry on the other.

Serve it like this

Mound rice on one side of a wide plate and ladle curry on the other, with a spoon of pickles on the rim.

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