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Chicken Curry with Butternut, Sweet potato and baby potatoes.

July 29, 2012 in Chicken and Poultry, Curries

Chicken Curry with Butternut, Sweet potato

and baby potatoes.

Chicken Curry with Butternut, sweet potato and baby potatoes.

I cook this meal at least once a week, this is my all time favorite winter “diet” curry.  Curry is such a wonderful thing, it fills you up and warms your heart. I’m always amazed at how all the spicy flavors come together to form something so magic and spectacular in your mouth.

Instead of having this with rice I rather choose healthier form of  starch such as starchy vegtables in the form of baby potatoes (lower GI than your ordinary potato) and Sweet potato that goes fantastic with the curry. The butternut gives body to the sauce without adding much of anything else to thicken it with.

Chicken Curry with butternut, sweet potato and baby potatoes.

You will simply not believe what a quick and filling meal this is. Please do yourself a favor and invest in spice tin. I can simply not make a decient curry without it.

Spices

I use Chicken breast and drumsticks but remove the skin and all visible fat before cooking, also important to stick to the portion sizes. Nowadays I only cook the portion we are suppose to have unless I cook double for lunch the next day. Beside the obvious benefits of not over indulging you also save a lot more money because there is no food going to waste.

Yip, because we don’t really ”give it to the dogs” we rather have second portions “because we are hungry and work was horrible today and it’s cold and blah blah blah lipstick”. Sometimes it’s too much effort to give that 1/2 cup of rice that’s left over to the dog anyway so you rather chuck it in the bin…been there done that! No more!

here is a simple quide to cooking the correct portion sizes.

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Lamb Curry with butternut puree and Maize rice

February 28, 2012 in Curries, Meat

Lamb curry

So when last did you eat maize rice?

After realizing that I haven’t actually ever cooked maize rice I thought I should google it. Ha! surprise there were no instructions to be found. So I went with my gut feeling and cooked it like I would cook rice, just a little longer.

To spice it up I made a lamb curry dressed over butternut pure’. Now that is just a fancy way of  having your meat on top of your butternut. Would have been the same thing if you plate it next to the meat but I like to play with my food.

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Back to school – Cinnamon and butternut muffins

January 18, 2012 in Muffins

Cinnamon and butternut muffins

The School started Today! I’m saying this with mixed feelings. Back to school actually means two hours less to myself. I will enjoy having the company in the car but I won’t enjoy the endless battle of music choice, Teens! (And I said I would never turn into my mother! lol)

I decided to bake this muffins yesterday, a great healthy lunch box treat, for kids and grown-up’s!

This muffins contains white butter beans and butternut so make sure you have enough time on hand. I’ve steamed my butternut instead of cooking. They taste absolutely great and if you don’t tell your kids they won’t actually know they are eating pumpkin!

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