Chicken Yellow Curry

Orgasm in a pot: YES PLEASE!!!!!




Chicken Yellow Curry Recipe (As I learned it from my local oriental market)

Servings: about 4-5.

This will take a minimum of 2 hours, 3 hours is the best. I will adapt to the slow cooker eventually.

1 pot with lid that everything can fit in.
White or brown rice to eat it on.

1.5 lb of chicken (they recommended hearts/gizzard mix which was really good)*
4 cups of water (and add more as you need it)
2 medium onions, chopped into larger pieces
2 large carrots rough chopped into 2 cm pieces
1/4th cup of soy sauce
red pepper flakes to taste (muahahahhaha)
1/8th cup of dry lentils

Spices: (Don't waste your money on any premade sauces, they are full of crap that you don't need in your body)
3 tbsp yellow curry powder (if you find a local place willing to sell you some of their powder, do it! it is mostly turmeric and a dash of cumin in the most basic form, store bought yellow curry powder tends to be overpriced for what it is.)
1 tbsp red pepper
1 tsp black pepper

* I used the heart/gizzards last night and it was orgasmic; you want chicken with a higher fat content that doesn't mind cooking for several hours. The chicken will break down with the cooking and become very tender. :)

Cooking: (LETS DO IT!!!!)
Take the pot and put it onto medium heat, use an appropriate amount of non-stick spray so you won't have a mess later. While the pan is heating up, get out your chicken and cut it up into smaller bits. If you use the good chicken parts like I did, cut the hearts in half and make the gizzards into bite size chunks. Anything with the membrane still on it (it will look green) throw out, not worth the extra effort to clean it. As you cut it, add it to the pot so it can get a little bit of browning.

After everything is cut up and in the pot you have a seething cauldron of tastiness beginning, add in your pepper flakes. Hmmm...now its a spicy cauldron of tastiness. Brown the meat until it is all cooked through and then add the water and soy sauce. Cover the newly unholy mixture of salts and fats and water and raise to a gentle boil. This shouldn't take too long since everything in the pan was already warm. Once it reaches a boil, lower the heat to medium-low, set the timer for 30 minutes, and go watch the Travel Channel or watch some cartoons.

Every thirty minutes for the next hour and a half (90 minutes) come back and stir the concoction, adding water as needed. You will want all of the meat to be covers in water as it breaks down into tender goodness and a semi-salty broth. If you use the organ meat this will remove that weird iron taste which turns most people off and will leave you the richest chicken flavor that you've ever had.

At the end of the thirty minutes, add in all the veggies and spices, mixing well, to the boiling chicken cauldron. I learned a little bit of dirty talk to the mix right now goes a long way in making it a sexy meal. A little Berry White and maybe a glass of white wine as it cooks.

Oh...yeah.

So after everything is mixed add enough water to cover everything and then half an inch up the side of the pot (extra water so you don't accidentally scorch the pot), cover the pot again so it comes back to a boil, and come back in thirty minutes. (or the longer the better, just watch the water level in the pot.)

At the end of this process you will have a yellow pot of tasty goodness that is served over rice. Resist doing anything you will have to explain to a significant other in the near future because this mixture will stain EVERYTHING yellow strait out of the pot (contrary to popular belief, having actual sex with food is still kinda weird, so don't do it! Molten curry burns + there = questions you don't want to answer). White shirts beware.

If you don't know how to cook rice here is a simple recipe: in a heavy pot with a lid add 1 cup of dry white rice to 1.5 cups of water (this will make 2 servings of rice, adjust amount using these ratios as needed). Cover and put onto low heat. Once it begins to hard boil turn off the heat and leave it alone. Walk away. 20 minutes later you will have cooked rice. Don't use instant rice, it is the Devil! EVIL! EVIL!!!!!!!