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Chicken Curry I

This comes from a good friend of mine in the capitol city of Conakry, Guinea. This sounds delicious and is a must try for me.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine Mixed
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 2 chicken quarters, seperated legs and thighs, skin on bone in
  • 2 sweet potatoes, peeled and cubed
  • 2 medium eggplant, cubed
  • 1 green bell pepper, chopped
  • 1 red bell pepper, chopped
  • 2 carrots, chopped
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 6 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
  • 1 teaspoon ground tumeric
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder, heaping
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 tablespoon sea salt
  • 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
  • 1 can Garbanzo beans, 15 ounce/425 grams, drained
  • 1 cup chicken stock, you will be making this, see Step 1
  • 1 zucchini, cubed
  • 4 tablespoons raisins
  • 1 cup orange juice
  • fresh grated ginger, to taste, or ground ginger

Instructions
 

  • Boil the chicken thighs and legs you cut from the quarters, add 1 onion and spices of choice for flavor. Once cooked, remove the chicken, strain the stock and return to the pot and reduce the stock down to 1 cup, set aside. While the stock is reducing, remove skin and bones from the chicken pieces (save as a snack for your dog) and chop the meat into bite site pieces, set the meat aside.
  • In a large stock pot place sweet potato, eggplant, peppers, carrots, onion, and three tablespoons of olive oil. Cook over medium heat for 5 minutes, stir often.
  • While the stock pot is cooking, in a medium saucepan add 3 tablespoons olive oil, garlic, turmeric, curry powder, cinnamon, salt, and cayenne pepper. Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes, stir often.
  • Pour garlic and spice mixture into the stock pot with vegetables in it. Add the chicken pieces, garbanzo beans, ginger to taste, zucchini, raisins, the chicken stock you made, and orange juice. Simmer 20 minutes covered, or until the sweet potatoes are soft, stirring occasionally. Serve over rice.

Notes

This is a low cost dish using 2 chicken quarters, that might cost about 40 Baht, everything else is low cost or on hand. For 8 servings, this is about 15 cents per serving, excellent value!
Provided courtesy of good friend, Mark Bowen.
Guinea.