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Chicken with Potatoes and Peas in Curry
Chicken with potatoes and peas — a stew-like, easy and flavorful dish made with tomato paste and pepper paste for extra depth. Curry spice gives it a distinctive taste. Serve with white rice.
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Chicken with potatoes and peas in curry ... an easy, delicious recipe for lunch!!
Ingredients
- 3 chicken breasts, cut into medium cubes
- Potatoes, cut into cubes
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 small onion
- 1 cup or more peas
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1/2 tablespoon pepper paste
- A pinch of black pepper
- 1/2 tablespoon or 1 teaspoon curry powder, to taste
- Oil
- Salt
- This delicious, easy recipe is from our friend and cook at Shou Tabkhin Today:
- Rasmia Majdoub (رسمية مجذوب)
- Click Rasmia’s name to visit her profile on our site and enjoy her delicious recipes
- For more of Rasmia's wonderful recipes, see Sayadiyah (fish rice)
Method
- Heat oil in a wide frying pan over the heat until very hot, then add the chicken pieces carefully and stir well until they turn white on all sides.
- Add salt, curry, and minced garlic, stir well, and cover the pot until the chicken cooks and the liquids dry up.
- Add the chopped onion and sauté until the onion softens.
- Add potato cubes, tomato paste, and pepper, cover them with water and stir well until the paste dissolves completely in the water.
- Keep the pan or pot on high heat until the mixture boils, then reduce the heat and cook until the potatoes are done.
- Add the peas, stir, and leave the chicken with the potatoes and peas on the heat for an additional five minutes until the peas are cooked.
- Serve it alongside white rice.
- Rasmia Majdoub
- For more of Rasmia's wonderful recipes, here is Sayadiyah fish.
Notes and serving ideas
- Sayadiyah (fish rice)






