Easiest Way to Prepare Quick Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry
by Sally Moore
Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken, spinach & brown lentil coconut curry:
Take Curry paste
Take 1 large onion
Prepare Thumb size piece of ginger
Make ready 2 large cloves of garlic
Take 1/2 de-seeded red chilli
Prepare 1 tspn ground cumin
Make ready 1 tspn turmeric
Prepare 1 tspn chilli powder
Make ready 1 tspn ground coriander
Take Big squeeze of tomato purée
Get Drizzle of oil
Take Curry
Prepare 4 chicken breasts cut into chunks
Prepare 1 tin coconut milk
Prepare 200 g ready cooked brown lentils (I love oddpods)
Take 1/2 tin (use coconut milk tin) of water
Prepare Salt and pepper
Get Handful fresh coriander
Make ready 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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