Chicken & Green Bean Stew
This recipe is from a good friend and sparked my interest not only for the inexpensive chicken, but for the green beans! We have yard beans (also called long beans) and they are very inexpensive to buy. It is a basic meal to which you can add any vegetable other than beans if you wish. Yard beans are relatively cheap, and therefore makes for a very economical dish.
Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 40 minutes mins
Total Time 50 minutes mins
Course Main Dish
Cuisine American
- 6 chicken breasts, cut into strips
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 red bell pepper, sliced
- 1 yellow bell pepper
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 300 grams yard beans, cut into 1 inch pieces
- 2 cups water
- 2 tablespoons onion soup powder mix, OR make from a shortcut
In a large pan, heat oil and fry chicken strips until lightly browned. Remove and set aside.
Same pan, fry onions and peppers with curry powder until soft, add yard beans, chicken, and water, allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
Mix the soup powder with a little water to form a smooth paste and stir into the stew then allow to simmer until thickened.
Serve with boiled potatoes, mashed potatoes, pasta, or rice.
Chicken breast run about 87 Baht per kilo, 6 breast is probably 150 baht or less. Yard beans are something like 15 Baht a bunch, bell peppers can be found for cheap as well. Easily $1 or less per serving for 6 meals.
Shortcut: Onion Soup Mix.
Provided courtesy of good friend, Denise Georgiades.
South Africa.