Chicken Curry

This is relative cheap and extremely tasty.

Ingredients:

• One onion
• One apple
• One sweet potato
• 4 tbs oil (I use butter, but almost anything would work)
• Two cups chicken, cooked and diced
• Four tsp Hot Curry powder
• One tsp salt
• One TBS of flour
• One cup of chicken broth
• 1/4 cup milk
• One packet Ramen noodles 

(1) A day or so before you intend to eat this, poach two or three chicken thighs in water with some salt and maybe a bit of onion. "Poach" means boil for about 20 minute and then turn off the heat and leave to cool. When it's totally cool, pull the meat from the bone and dice into bite-sized chunks. Refrigerate until you're ready to cook the curry. You can save the water the chicken was cooked in to use as your broth in Step 4.

(2) Dice the onion. Peel and dice the apple and the sweet potato.  Saute all of these in butter in a big skillet or saucepan for about 5 minutes.

(3) Add the curry powder. I use this kind. You can add more if you like spicy, and less if you like less spicy. Saute for another minute or two, then add one tablespoon of flour.  Saute some more, then sprinkle on the salt.

(4) Slowly mix in the chicken broth, stirring constantly. You want a semi-soupy mix at this time. (It will thicken up.) Add the milk. You can use more milk if you need to.

(5) Add the chicken. Cover and simmer on low for about ten minutes.

(6) Cook your ramen -- boil it in about a cup of water for three or four minutes. DON'T add the spice packet. You just want plain noodles.

(7) Stir the curry well and eat over the noodles.

This recipe can and should be freely messed with. If you don't have a sweet potato, use two apples, or an apple and a carrot, or a plain potato, or whatever you have on hand. If you're opposed to ramen noodles, use rice, or maybe spaghetti. Or eat it with roti, which I believe is traditional. If you have some leftover chicken, or rotisserie chicken, used that. If you like your curry sweeter, add a tsp of brown sugar just before the chicken. A little vinegar can also be added, if you want it more sour. I've never cooked it with wine, but go wild!

Also, this recipe can be doubled or even tripled and still work.