An easy to make creamy delicious chicken curry in coconut milk and mustard. It’s the comfort meal you are looking for after a long day and it takes only 30 minutes .It’s packed with nutrients and gluten free too!
What’s your favorite kind of dinner? Me, everything 🙂 But I prefer more stews from our cuisine, which is middle eastern, like mloukhyia,or Moussaka , eggplant with tomato , or stuffed zuhcchini cooked in tomato,and also soups, well basically anything that’s is not dry.
A dear friend, from the old times, well, we know each other maybe since sixteen years ago ? Can you believe it?! Do you have this friend? She gave me this recipe many years ago. We were chatting one day, and I just said, I have to cook and I don’t know what to make. So she suggested this one. I made it, we fell in love with it, and it became a family favorite.
This is a dish from the Indonesian cuisine. However, I’m sure this is not the authentic one, but I hate to stick to rules. Now, this is even a different version from how I used to cook it. But this one is much closer to the authentic one.
Mustard seeds
They are small round seeds of mustard plant. They have a range of color from yellow, red, or even black. They are packed with nutrients and essential oils.
Why this chicken curry
- Because it’s the ultimate creamy comfort meal, healthy and delicious.
- Because it has chicken and it’s a lean protein that is very healthy for you.
- Because it has coconut milk, it’s aromatic, and very healthy too.
- Because it’s packed with nutrients, and anti-inflammatory proprieties of curry powder.
This is such an easy recipe that you put together in 30 minutes, just make sure to fry pan the seeds in hot oil, wait until they pop then remove from heat and don’t burn them like I did, even I don’t think they taste bad. Add them at the end of cooking.
After that, you saute ginger, garlic, and onion together for few minutes, then you add crushed tomato, mustard and the curry powder. Then you add water and let them simmer for 15 minutes. At this stage , you can blend them in a blender to have a smooth texture, or you can keep the mix chunky as it as . After that you add chicken and coconut milk
Coconut milk
Is my favorite non dairy milk, it has the good kind of fats, the unsaturated one that is good for your heart. It has an amazing flavor, and suits sweet dishes and savory as well. I use it in almost every kind of recipe, check here what I did with it.
Chicken
Is also my favorite source of lean protein. It’s versatile , easy to use, and very healthy , whether its boneless or with bones.
For more easy dinner recipe ideas with chicken, check out my recipes here .
Easy chicken curry with coconut milk
Ingredients
- 1/2 Tb mustard seeds
- 4 garlic cloves minced
- 1 inch of ginger minced
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 medium tomato chopped
- 2 tsp curry powder (or as desired).
- 1 Tb ground mustard
- 1 Tb vegetable oil
- 2 to 4 chicken breasts cut into cubes
- 1 cup coconut milk
- Optional:
- 1 Tb cornstarch dissolved in 1 Tb of water
Instructions
- In a medium pot, on a medium heat , add 1 Tb of vegetable oil. add mustard seeds, wait until they pop and start to change to dark color, remove from heat and keep them aside.
- Now add diced onions, and saute for 3-5, then Add garlic and ginger and saute for another 3 minutes.
- Add tomato, mustard powder, curry powder, salt and pepper.
- Cover the pot with a tight lid and keep them simmering for 10 minutes or 15.
- Use a blender to puree the mix, and then return it to the same pot.
- Add the chicken pieces, and cover the lid again for 10 minutes, you can add some water if the mix is too thick.
- Remove the lid, add coconut milk, mustard seeds, more curry powder, and keep it for 5 minutes.
- Optional: Add corn starch if you desire a thick consistency.
- Serve with basmati rice on the side.
- Enjoy and refrigerate any leftovers.
