Cape Malay Chicken Curry with Yellow Rice
Cape Malay Chicken Curry with Yellow Rice

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Heat the oil in a large, wide pan. Cape Malay chicken curry with yellow rice. Spice up chicken thighs in a South African curry, packed with flavourful spices and served with a side of sweet, fragrant rice.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have cape malay chicken curry with yellow rice using 28 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cape Malay Chicken Curry with Yellow Rice:
  1. Get FOR THE CURRY:
  2. Prepare 2 tablespoons sunflower or rapeseed oil
  3. Get 1 large onion, finely chopped
  4. Get 4 large garlic cloves, finely grated
  5. Make ready 2 tablespoons finely grated ginger
  6. Get 5 cloves
  7. Make ready 2 teaspoons turmeric
  8. Make ready 1 teaspoon ground white pepper
  9. Take 1 teaspoon coriander
  10. Take 1 teaspoon cumin
  11. Take seeds from 8 cardamom pods, lightly crushed
  12. Prepare 1 cinnamon stick, snapped in half
  13. Get 1 large red chilli, halved, deseeded and sliced
  14. Prepare 400 g (14 1/10 oz) can diced tomatoes plus 2 cans water
  15. Take 2 tablespoons mango chutney
  16. Get 1 chicken stock cube, crumbled
  17. Make ready 12 bone-in chicken thighs, skin removed
  18. Get 500 g (1 1/10 lb) potatoes, cut into chunks
  19. Get small bunch coriander (cilantro) chopped
  20. Get FOR THE YELLOW RICE:
  21. Make ready 50 g (1.76 oz) butter
  22. Get 350 g (12 3/10 oz) basmati rice
  23. Get 50 g (1.76 oz) raisins
  24. Make ready 1 teaspoon golden caster sugar
  25. Get 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
  26. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
  27. Take 1 cinammon stick, snapped in half
  28. Prepare 8 cardamon pods, lightly crushed

Remove the cinnamon stick and fluff the rice gently before serving. In a saucepan, combine the rice, salt, turmeric, sugar, cinnamon, raisins, butter and water. It is called Cape Malay Chicken Curry. This is not an authentic Malaysian curry.

Instructions to make Cape Malay Chicken Curry with Yellow Rice:
  1. Heat the oil in a large, wide pan. Add the onion and fry for 5 mins until softened, stirring every now and then. Stir in the garlic, ginger and cloves, and cook for 5 mins more, stirring frequently to stop it sticking. Add all the remaining spices and the fresh chilli, stir briefly, then tip in the tomatoes with 2 cans of water, plus the chutney and crumbled stock cube.
  2. Add the chicken thighs, pushing them under the liquid, then cover the pan and leave to cook for 35 mins. Stir well, add the potatoes and cook uncovered for 15-20 mins more until they are tender. Stir in the coriander/cilantro.
  3. About 10 mins before you want to serve, make the rice. Put the butter, rice, raisins, sugar and spices in a large pan with 550ml (2 1/3 cups) water and 1/2 tsp salt. Bring to the boil and, when the butter has melted, stir, cover and cook for 10 mins. Turn off the heat and leave undisturbed for 5 mins. Fluff up and serve with the curry.

But the name Cape comes from the town called Western Cape in South Africa where a good number of Malaysians dwell, and whom originated this recipe. The flavor of this curry is really nice and easy to get used to for those who are the curry beginners. A curry that is suitable for the whole family, even the little ones. The added sweetness from the fruit gives this dish great balance. Add a little saffron to create beautiful yellow rice.

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