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Indian chicken and vegetable curry

This Indian chicken and vegetable curry is a really versatile and hearty dish, packed with flavour, high in iron and fibre, this will quickly become your go-to favourite weekend meal

  • Hands-on time: 15 mins
  • Time to make: 1 hr
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • spray oil
    • 500g lean chicken thigh fillets, fat-trimmed, cut in chunks
    • 1 medium-sized onion, chopped
    • 1 carrot, cut in 2cm pieces
    • ¼ cup rogan josh curry paste
    • 400g can chopped tomatoes
    • 1 cup liquid no-added-salt chicken stock
    • 400g pumpkin, peeled, cut in 2cm pieces
    • 200g cauliflower florets
    • 200g green beans, cut in 3cm pieces
    • 4 cups baby spinach
    • 2 tablespoons coconut milk powder
    • 3 cups steamed basmati rice
    • 4 tablespoons mint raita (made with ¾ cup low-fat plain yoghurt mixed with 2 tablespoons finely shredded fresh mint)
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Lightly spray a large saucepan with oil and place over a medium heat. Brown chicken in 3 batches and transfer to a plate. Respray saucepan with oil. Add onion and carrot and cook for 5 minutes or until softened.

    2 Add curry paste and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds or until fragrant. Return chicken to pan with tomatoes, stock, 2 cups water and pumpkin. Bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 45 minutes or until chicken is tender.

    3 Add cauliflower and beans. Cook, uncovered, for 5-6 minutes or until tender. Stir through spinach.

    4 Combine coconut milk powder with 1 tablespoon warm water in a small bowl. Stir into curry. Serve with rice and mint raita.

    Variations

    • Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free curry paste and check stock and yoghurt (raita) are gluten free.
    • Frozen vegetables also work well in this recipe.
    • Slow cooker variation: This recipe can also be cooked for 6–10 hours in a slow cooker on low.

    HFG tip

    This dish freezes well for up to 1 month.

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