Country Captain Chicken
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Country Captain Chicken, what? How had I never made this before? This delicious chicken dish is going to be a HUGE hit in your just like it is in mine.
This new to me Indian curry dish features lightly fried chicken, mild curry flavor, and just enough sauce to temptingly drizzle over hot cooked rice.
The original Country Captain recipe used bone-in chicken pieces rather than boneless chicken but I prefer to use boneless chicken instead, it gets dinner on the table quicker. Plus I never have to worry about if the chicken is cooked all the way through.
Serve Country Captain Chicken with hot cooked long-grain rice. Or get crazy and go brown rice. Or instant rice. Seriously any cooked rice will do! If you want quick and easy rice use one of these.
Country Captain Chicken is a Chicken Curry
I was flipping through one of my favorite cookbooks, James Beard’s American Cookery, looking for inspiration. I needed something new to do with chicken. And I FINALLY found it!
Easy Ingredients
After reading the recipe I was tearing my kitchen apart to see if I had all the ingredients I needed to make it happen. Fortunately, it didn’t call for anything too out of the ordinary pantry wise and I got lucky!
This is my adaptation of the recipe “Cecily Brownstone’s Country Captain” from James Beard’s American Cookery cookbook. Besides using boneless skinless chicken, I omitted the thyme and the currants. I have found my family is not a fan of the sweet little surprise bits in the curry.
If you like currants or raisins in your curry feel free to add them, the recipe called for 3 TBSP but because I roughly doubled the sauce ingredients, you may want to add up to 6 TBSP.
I’ve also left out the almonds because there were no firm directions on HOW many to use or exactly WHAT to do with them, I suppose you could chop them and sprinkle them on the top if you like, other recipes call for them to be used that way. We liked it just fine without them.
Country Captain Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 TBSP butter or ghee
- 8 boneless skinless chicken thighs cut to bite sized pieces
- 1/2 cup flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 cup onion finely chopped
- 1 green sweet pepper finely chopped
- 1 TBSP curry powder
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1 clove garlic crushed and minced
- 32 ounces crushed or chopped tomatoes
- 1/2 cup golden raisins
Instructions
- begin by melting half the butter over medium heat in a heavy dutch oven
- mix the flour, salt and pepper in a plastic bag
- add 1/2 the chicken to the flour shake to coat
- when butter has melted carefully add the chicken shaking to remove the extra flour, fry until lightly turn and cook the other side, you’re just browning it so don’t try to cook it all the way through
- once it’s browned remove to a platter, add the rest of the butter to the pan and allow it to melt
- cook the rest of the chicken in the same manner, coat with flour, lightly fry and remove
- once all the chicken in browned and removed to a platter add the onion and pepper, cook and stir 5 minutes scraping the browned bits off the bottom while stirring
- then add the curry, thyme and garlic and cook for 30 seconds, don’t burn it just cook it a little
- add the tomatoes and stir well to combine
- nestle the chicken into the sauce
- reduce heat and simmer 20-30 minutes or bake in 350˚ oven for 35 minutes
- serve with hot cooked long grain rice
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