CHICKEN COCONUT CURRY

Hey guys! 

Its 3 days to Christmas. Hope you all have your trees and decor up! I certainly do. I love how glorious Christmas is. I love celebrating Christ daily and a holiday to do just that is truly a plus. I'm super excited to spend my first Christmas married to the hubz. I'm thankful to God for life, salvation and for each and every one of my loved ones. I'm also extremely thankful for the growth of this blog and for open doors and all the closed ones that God has guarded us from.

So yes on to food things! I have been meaning to make a meal using coconut milk. I love how diverse of an ingredient it is, used in indian food, swahili dishes, and even thai cusine! I had some chicken thighs and a can of coconut milk so I decided to make a spicy meal yesterday together with some rice and steamed veggies. I also asked the hubz to buy some nans from one of our favorite Indian restaurants that complimented this meal perfectly.

Ingredients [serves 4]

Chicken [6 thighs/ 4 breasts cut in big chunks]

2/3 can coconut milk

140 gr tomato paste [two packets tomato paste]

1 onion

4 cloves garlic

1 tablespoon chopped ginger

Dhania

1 tablespoon royco

Olive oil

Salt

Black pepper

2 tablespoons chicken masala

2 tablespoons curry powder

1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

1 yellow/red hoho/ capsicum

1 courgette

1 1/2 cup rice

1 packet mixed veggies [sliced carrots, french peas, brocoli]

Start of by cooking your rice. [Remember its double the cups of water per cup rice so in this case 3 cups of water for 1 1/2 cups rice] I used a rice cooker with a steamer so I used the lower part to cook the rice and the to part to steam my veggies. Season veggies with olive oil, black pepper and salt and leave to cook with rice.

For the chicken, peel and chop onions, garlic and ginger and cook them with olive oil in a sufuria.

Add the chicken masala and curry powder and allow to cook. <Use a few tablespoons water just incase the spices start to stick to the bottom of the sufuria.> Add the tomato paste and also allow to cook with the spices. Wash and chop the yellow pepper and courgette and add to the sufuria. 

Shortly after, add the coconut milk, a hint of salt and allow to cook with the spices and veggies.

After a few minutes, add chicken and leave to cook.

Mix 1 tablespoon royco, cayenne pepper, black pepper in a 1/4 cup water and add to the sufuria. Finish of with adding the dhania/coriander and seal with lid. <By adding it in the end it gives the curry a boost of flavor>

Allow to cook for another 15 minutes. Note that white meat tends to cook very fast. Make sure that the sauce is thick and light brown color.

 Remove from heat and serve with rice, nan and steamed veggies.

Enjoy.

As always, I'll have you know:-

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Have a lovely week :)

Sincerely,

Jaz.

VEGETARIAN MEAL: SWEET NDENGU

Hey everyone, 

Hoping you've had a fabulous long weekend. 

I sure did :-) Excited and thankful to see a new week and better yet a new month!

In the spirit of celebrating Kenya, decided to cook a common kenyan meal that we've all grown up with: RICE WITH NDENGU, also known as lentils. I recently threw in a couple of things and it came out so well that I adapted this recipe as one of my "no-fail-recipes!" I mean what would this page be without a twist in the normal meals. Instead of the usual carrots and potatoes ndengu stews, I now use sweet potaoes and the butternut. This is most definitely a must-try. The sweetness of the butternut and the sweet potatoes works so well with the saltiness of the ndengus. 

And the recipe is as follows......

Ingredients:- [serves up to 5 people]
250 grams Ndengu
1 Butternut
1-2  sweet potato
1 onion
4 cloves garlic
4 sticks Thyme
1 packet tomato paste
1 beef cube [optional]
1 tablespoon royco
Black pepper
Salt to taste
olive/vegetable oil
Jasmine/ Pishori rice

Start off by preparing rice and put aside once done. * Double the cups of water per cup rice*

Boil ndengus for about half an hr and put aside. 

Chop garlic and onions. Peel and cut up the butternut and the sweet potatoes in big cubes. Rinse them in water.

 In another sufuria cook onions and garlic in vegetable/ olive oil. After a few minutes, add the butter and sweet potato cubes to cook.

 Follow by adding the beef cube [optional] and tomato paste and cook for about 3minutes. Add two tablespoons of water to enable you to stir well without it sticking in the bottom.

 Once the tomato paste has began to brown, add the already boiled ndengu.

Stir and add 2 cups water with one tablespoon royco and cover to cook for another 15-20 minutes. 

Add a dash of black pepper and salt to taste. Add the thyme leaves. * Run your fingers through the thyme sticks and add the leaves to the stew* 

 The thyme adds a very aromatic flavor. Be careful to stir well every few minutes. We want the ndengus to cook well without sticking in the bottom. Also make sure not to overcook them since the ndengus then mash up and they don't look or taste as good. 

Once the stew is nice and thick, remove from heat and serve with rice.

ENJOY

Also I'll have you know:-

-I'm up to 8000+ pageviews-thankyou Jesus! and thankyou all for following and trying out my recipes.

-I'm now on Youtube, you can subscribe and check out the video here: CookingwithJaz

-I am officially on twitter on this account (@cookingwithjaz)

-I am also on facebook on this page "cooking with jaz"

-If you want to be featured on the "GUEST AND RECIPE OF THE WEEK" email me on "cookingwithjaz@yahoo.com"

-If you have tried any of my recipes, do tag me or send me the pics on any one of my social media pages

Have a lovely week :)

Sincerely,

Jaz.

I'm on youtube y'all!!

Happy Wednesday!
Here's a lil something to make your mid-week even more fabulous!
A midweek treat of sorts-my first official home video posted on youtube :-))
Disclaimer: i was nervous and I kept making grammatical errors, all in all Im glad I finally got around to doing this!

For those of you who had asked, this is how easy it is to make chinese stir-fried rice!
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Sincerely,
Jaz