Best Apricot Curried Rice With Chicken Recipes

AWESOME APRICOT CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Cook onion, garlic, and curry in margarine for a couple of minutes.
• Push mixture to one side of skillet and cook chicken for five or six minutes until pink is gone.
• Stir together chicken and onion mixture.
• Add preserve, apple, raisins, cashews, and 1/3 cups water or white wine.
• Mix yoghurt and cornstarch together and stir until there are no lumps.
• Then add it to the skillet and mix everything well.
• Let it all boil slowly for at least two minutes to get rid of the starchy flavor from the cornstarch.
• Plate it up over the base of your choice.
• Traditionally the base is rice.
• But try being daring and use angel hair pasta or toasted English muffins.
• Burp.

CHICKEN APRICOT CURRY

Steps:

• Blend onion, garlic, and ginger with ¼ cup (60ml) water. Transfer to a bowl. Add curry powder, cumin, and fennel. Mix into a paste.
• Heat 1 tablespoon vegetable oil in a medium sized pot over medium heat. Fry red and yellow bell peppers for 2 minutes. Remove and set aside.
• Add remaining 3 tablespoons vegetable oil to the pot. Stir fry spice paste until fragrant, about 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add chicken and stir till chicken turns opaque, about 3 minutes. Pour in ½ cup (120ml) water.
• Add dried apricots. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Remove lid. Add coconut milk, salt, and cooked bell peppers. Allow coconut milk to heat through, about 3 minutes.
• Turn off heat and allow curry to sit for 10 minutes before serving.

CHICKEN CURRY WITH DRIED APRICOTS

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add chopped shallots and sauté until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Mix in red curry paste and fresh ginger and cook 1 minute. Add chicken tenders and sauté until cooked through, about 6 minutes. Using tongs, transfer chicken to bowl.
• Add unsweetened coconut milk and dried apricots to skillet and boil until mixture is reduced to 2 1/4 cups, about 10 minutes. Mix in mango chutney and 1/2 cup cilantro. Return cooked chicken to skillet. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir to heat through. Sprinkle with remaining 1/4 cup cilantro. Serve over rice.
• *Available at Asian markets and in the Asian foods section of some supermarkets.
• **Available at Indian, Southeast Asian and Latin American markets and many supermarkets.

APRICOT CURRIED RICE WITH CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cook rice and keep warm according to package directions.
• Season chicken breasts with a little salt& pepper to taste.
• Heat 2 tsp oil in a heated skillet.
• Add chicken breasts and brown 3 minutes per side, then remove from the pan.
• Spread chili sauce all over both sides of the chicken.
• Place chicken into a heavy,ovensafe pan and place in a preheated oven at 200 C on the second rack, and roast for 10 minutes or until chicken is cooked through (the thicker your chicken breasts, the longer it will take).
• In the same pan you cooked the chicken in, heat another 2 tsp of oil.
• Saute the green onions and the peppers for about 3 minutes, remove from the pan to a dish.
• Add another tsp of oil (if needed) and saute the apricots 1-2 minutes, then remove to the same dish as the peppers and the onions.
• Add another tsp of oil (if needed), and saute the rice and the curry powder, stirring constantly to mix well, for about 2 minutes.
• Pour in the stock and bring to a boil.
• Return all the sauteed vegetables and the apricots, along with the peas to the pan and cook together until heated.
• Serve with the chicken.
• Note*: If you prefer things more spicy, feel free to add some hot curry powder or use spicier chili sauce.
• In Germany, sweet& sour chili sauce is usually more like the sweet& sour duck sauce you can buy from La Choy in the grocery stores in America- it has little bits of red bell pepper in it.