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Mary D'Arcy's easy baked chicken curry: Today

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Ingredients

  • 1 large carrot
  • 1 courgette
  • 1 small onion
  • 2/3 stalks celery
  • Half a small butternut squash
  • 1 sweet potato,
  • 2 large chicken breasts or 5 boneless chicken thighs
  • Mild curry paste – 2 heaped dessert spoons
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 1 400g tin coconut milk
  • 250g tomato passata
  • 1 400g tin chickpeas, drained and rinsed

Method

  1. Chop all the vegetables into even large dice and place in an oven proof dish.
  2. Cut the chicken into even size pieces, add to the vegetables.
  3. Crumble the stock cube over the vegetables, add the curry paste and stir to coat the chicken and vegetables.
  4. Pour over the coconut milk(rinse the tin with warm water, about ¼ full, add to dish) and tomato passata. Mix through.
  5. Cover with foil and seal.
  6. Place in the oven, Gas 4, 180C, 350F.
  7. After an hour and a half, removed from oven, add the chickpeas and give stir through the curry, cover and cook for another 30 minutes.
  8. Serve with rice and accompany with some mango chutney.