Easiest Way to Make Speedy Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry
by Carl Jenkins
Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry
Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry:
Take Curry paste
Take 1 large onion
Take Thumb size piece of ginger
Prepare 2 large cloves of garlic
Prepare 1/2 de-seeded red chilli
Prepare 1 tspn ground cumin
Get 1 tspn turmeric
Take 1 tspn chilli powder
Get 1 tspn ground coriander
Get Big squeeze of tomato purée
Take Drizzle of oil
Prepare Curry
Make ready 4 chicken breasts cut into chunks
Get 1 tin coconut milk
Prepare 200 g ready cooked brown lentils (I love oddpods)
Make ready 1/2 tin (use coconut milk tin) of water
Make ready Salt and pepper
Make ready Handful fresh coriander
Get Half bag of washed spinach leaves
Steps to make Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry:
Saute onions for a couple of minutes in the oil until soft then add the chilli, ginger and garlic. Cook for another couple of minutes and add the spices from the paste section. Only cook them for another minute or so then blitz all of this together. Once blitzed add the tomato purée.
Meanwhile, start cooking the chicken (cut into chunks) in the same pan and brown for a minute or so. Then re-add the paste over the chicken and cook for a few minutes till simmering. Then, off the heat, add the coconut milk and water, and season well with salt and pepper. Bring to the boil and simmer on the lowest heat for an hour or so until the chicken is nice and tender.
Just when you’re ready to cook the rice, add the fresh coriander, spinach and cooked lentils to the curry and then pop the lid on till the rice is cooked. Serve with lots more fresh coriander and chopped red chilli. I also like to serve this curry with fluffy basmati rice, a salad and popadoms.
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