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Basic chicken curry

Your midweek lunch just got a whole lot better! This chicken and spinach curry is the ultimate meal-prep recipe—it actually tastes even better the next day.

  • Time to make: 35 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 2 onions, sliced
  • 2 tablespoons medium-heat curry powder
  • 2 mild fresh red or green chillies, sliced
  • 500g tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 cup reduced-salt chicken stock
  • 500g skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks
  • 200g baby spinach
  • 1 cup reduced-fat Greek yoghurt
  • 2 cups cooked brown basmati rice
  • ½ bunch fresh coriander, to garnish
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Spray a large non-stick frying pan with oil and set over medium-high heat. Add onion and cook for 5 minutes until
    soft. Add curry powder, chilli and tomatoes and cook for a further 5 minutes until the tomatoes have cooked down.
    Carefully transfer mixture to a food processor with the stock and blend until smooth.

    2 Clean pan, then spray with oil and return to medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook for 6–8 minutes until golden and almost cooked through. Add the blended sauce and simmer for 15 minutes. Stir in spinach and half the yoghurt, then simmer for 2–3 minutes until the spinach wilts. Heat rice according to pack instructions.

    3 Stir most of the coriander into the curry. Serve with the rice, topped with the remaining yoghurt and coriander.

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