After two cups of tea and perusing my cookbooks looking for a miracle meal I rolled up my sleeves, put on my apron and got busy chopping.
Eleventh Hour Chicken was created out of sheer necessity and a desire for some comfort food that could be made with what I had on hand.
Onions, garlic, red peppers, green peas, chicken meat cooked and cubed, coconut milk, red curry paste, sugar and fish sauce.
Basmati rice.
I love my rice cooker!
Perfect rice every time.
I sauteed 2 thinly sliced onions, a couple of cloves of garlic and thin strips of red pepper until soft.
Pour in 2 cans of coconut milk, whisk until it boils, then add 2 tablespoons of red curry paste, 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon of fish sauce.
Reduce the temperature and stir well to blend.
Next the chicken to heat through, and lastly the frozen peas.
Simmer on low.
(I would have used green beans instead of the peas if I had some and I would have added a can of bamboo shoots to make it more like a Thai coconut curry)
The aroma of the coconut milk is scenting the Humble Bungalow kitchen
and wafting beyond...
red curry paste is a great thing to keep on hand in the fridge as it adds so much flavour
love these prep bowls and use them lots
Mr. HB gave them to me one Christmas
he's pretty creative with his gifts especially when he finds himself in a fabulous kitchen shop!
waste not want not
chicken day #3
Cost of free range organic chicken $30
3 meals
2 lunches
chicken stock for the freezer
this makes good economic sense to me
Yum this smells so good!
oops
I forgot to wipe the sides of the bowl!
Bon appetit
dinner fast and easy
and this one is good enough to serve to guests.
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What fast and easy way do you deal with leftovers?
11 comments:
HOSTESS,WOW I AM SHOCKED AT THE PRICE OF A CHICKEN!NOT EVEN CLOSE TO WHAT WE PAY IN THE STATES. GLAD YOU WERE ABLE TO STRETCH IT INTO 3 MEALS,IT LOOKS DELICIOUS! IS ALL THE FOOD IN CANADA THAT PRICEY?HOW DO AVERAGE FAMILIES SURVIVE?
Oh we have a roast chicken every second Sunday and it feeds us for 4 dinners! Isn't coconut milk just delish?
I always boil the carcass for chicken soup so we get lunch from it too over two days, so I don't mind paying extra for organic and buy it from the local farmer.
Hang on, yes that's a £20 chicken, if I am not mistaken, I'd want foie gras for that.
Yum this looks totally delicious.. - what a great recipe and certainly does not say "leftovers' in any way! Agree your organic chicken is quite pricey compared with ones here in England but you have got quite a few tasty meals from it ...X
I'm a bit intimidated to cook Thai curries but that looks very tasty. I still have a teenager at home so there are no left overs to be had.
Yum yum yum....since leaving Seattle for Austin, I haven't found a good curry.
My principle use with leftovers is either in salads or in omelets/frittatas. Oh, and soups. That was always my dad's solution, except his version was more of the "refrigerator dump" variety.
Cannot add anything to your culinary skills,as I do not enjoy cooking/baking (women in the country find me very odd as most of them are great cooks).
I rarely eat chicken when I do it is small chargrilled pieces over a large salad.Ida
Looks fabulous , I think I will have to try this soon too. I love seeing how far i can stretch a chicken too , and soon you will have a great pot of soup from the stock. Donna
Like you, I can stretch a chicken until it clucks again! The curry looks just delicious.
As a fellow Canadian I'm going to defend the cost of your chicken. An organic chicken, grain fed, tastes ten times better than the cheaper chicken we can get in the average supermarket. And it won't have been fed antibiotics 'just in case' or reprocessed slaughterhouse offal which is standard practice in big agriculture.
The coconut milk/curry paste mix is a great idea, even I who have very little culinary imagination could put together something tasty and different with this recipe. Thank you.
The price of that chicken has me clucking... must be a big boy for thirty bucks. (And I buy very good chicken, but pay $22 or so.)
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