Curry in a hurry
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking time
Ready in 15 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 2Curry needn't be a chore-like undertaking - here's a curry you can prepare in minutes
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 195
- protein
- 22g
- carbs
- 11g
- fat
- 7g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 0.75g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 red onion, thinly sliced
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 tsp ready-prepared ginger from a jar
- ½-1tsp ready chopped chillies, from a jar
- 200g can chopped tomatoes
- 200g raw peeled prawns or chopped skinless boneless chicken
- 2 tsp gujarati masala, or garam masala
- 3 tbsp low fat yogurt
- handful coriander leaves, roughly chopped or torn
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Method
- Heat the oil in a pan, add onion and fry until they colour. Crush the garlic into the pan, add ginger and chilli; cook briefly. Add tomatoes and a quarter of a can of water and bring to the boil. Simmer for 2 mins, add prawns or chicken and gujarati masala, cover and cook for 2-3 mins for prawns and 5-6 mins for chicken.
- Reduce the heat to a simmer, then stir in the yogurt, a tablespoonful at time. Sprinkle with coriander and serve with warm garlic and coriander naans and a crisp salad of cucumber, shredded lettuce, sliced red onion and wedges of lemon.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, March 2005
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I used what I had in the fridge / cupboard, so used Patak Korma paste, a fresh red chilli, fresh thumbnail size of chopped ginger and a 400g tin of chopped tomatoes. I added a tin of chickpeas and some frozen French beans. I let the mixture bubble away then reduced the heat and left it simmering till the tomatoes reduced. Served with rice and a garlic bread. Quick and simple to make, very tasty to eat.
Didn't add the water and still found it a bit watery. Also had to add a lot more garam masala than suggested to give it any flavour. On top of that it needed a fair bit of salt, and in the end I still found it a bit too tomatoey tasting to be a convincing curry! Quite disappointing really, but still edible - I just won't be making it again!