2 teaspoons ground turmeric
5 tablespoons curry powder
4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
25 g (1 oz) fresh root ginger, roughly chopped
salt
4 chicken breasts, halved diagonally
groundnut oil
2 onions, finely diced
1 teaspoon thyme
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
5 tomatoes, skinned, seeded and very finely diced
300 ml (½ pint) coconut milk
1 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander
24 large prawns (for example, tiger prawns), head on, tail removed and de-veined
juice of 1 lime
Mix together the turmeric and curry powder with just enough water to make a paste. Pound the garlic and ginger in a pestle and mortar.
Salt the chicken. Heat a little oil in a large frying pan and fry the chicken until golden, then add the onions, garlic and ginger and sweat until soft. Add the turmeric and curry powder paste and cook for 2 - 3 minutes. Add the thyme, parsley and tomatoes and cook for 10 - 15 minutes. Stir in the coconut milk and heat through. Add the coriander, remove from the heat and reserve.
In a separate pan, heat some more oil and pan-fry the prawns for a minute or so. Add the lime juice and season with salt.
Place some chicken in the centre of each plate, spoon the sauce around it, and arrange the prawns on top of the sauce.
Serves 4.
country : Madagascar
course : poultry dish
source : Floyd on Africa / Keith Floyd