Filipino

Filipino Chicken Curry

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Filipino Chicken Curry is Filipino home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves
6

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Cut the potatoes and carrot into large chunks.

  2. Heat the oil in a pot over medium-high heat and brown the chicken on all sides, then set it aside.

  3. Add the onion and garlic to the pot and cook until softened, about 3 minutes.

  4. Stir in the curry powder and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds.

  5. Return the chicken to the pot, add the water, bay leaves, fish sauce, and salt, and bring to a simmer.

  6. Cover and cook until the chicken is nearly tender, about 15 minutes.

  7. Add the potatoes and carrot and simmer until nearly tender, about 12 minutes.

  8. Pour in the coconut milk and add the bell pepper, then simmer until the chicken is cooked through and the vegetables are tender, about 8 minutes more.

  9. Taste and adjust the seasoning, then serve hot over the jasmine rice.

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Serve it with

A Filipino dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Filipino Chicken Curry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Filipino Chicken Curry carries fish and coconut. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Filipino Chicken Curry
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish Yes Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo)
Sesame No
Coconut Yes Adobong Baboy (Pork Adobo)

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
630 kcal
Protein
28 g
Carbs
45 g
Fat
38 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
420 mg
Saturated fat
19 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Filipino Chicken Curry takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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