Roasted Curry-Coconut Chicken
Ingredients:
1 Chicken, whole
3 Onions, cut into wedges
3 Potatoes, cut into wedges
3 Granny Smith apples, cut into wedges
2 cups Coconut milk
1 cup Chicken stock, homemade
1/2 cup Shredded coconut
3 T. Curry powder (I used yellow curry)
2 T. Red pepper flakes
Olive oil
Sea salt & Pepper, to taste
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C
Prepare the onions, potatoes, and apples, and lined the roasting pan with them.
After washing down the bird, rub it all over with olive oil and then curry. Place it in the roasting pan, on top of the apples and veggies, and sprinkle everything with salt, pepper, and red pepper flakes.
Bathe everything with chicken stock and then coconut milk. At this point, it will look like the creamy mess pictured above. I sprinkled some extra curry on top. (There can never be too much curry!)
Then it all goes into the oven for at least an hour, depending on the size of your bird. Halfway through, baste the bird and the apples/veggies with some of the sauce.
Enjoy!
This was my best chicken yet. I absolutely loved the combination of flavors. The apples got deliciously soft and creamy inside.
This last chicken was apparently larger than previous ones, because it took FOREVER to cook. Like, I lost count after a while. Lesson learned: when roasting a chicken, put it in well ahead of when you want to eat.
hmm, I’m generally not much of a savoury person but this sounds delish! Yep I’m convinced, I’m gonna give it a go
How funny, I am so much more of a savory person than a sweet one, but I’m always looking for sweet recipes for my boyfriend. Whenever I crave not-so-healthy food, it’s always something salty.
This was REALLY good, though, and the coconut gives it kind of a sweet touch, plus the baked apples were spectacular with this coconut-curry sauce.
printed! Hopefully get round to it this week(end)
Thanks for sharing
OMG it looks AWESOME!!!
I’m going to the farmer’s market this Saturday and I’ll check out the chickens (they actually sell them alive… but I think they can also kill them for you as a courtesy… We’ll see!
Julia, let me know if you make this. So far, one friend has and they liked it. I’m doing another one this Sunday.
Have fun at farmer’s market!! If they kill the chickens for you, I assume they de-feather them too? If so, definitely get a couple. Now that we’ve gotten used to real chickens, I can barely eat the factory chicken when I’m out at a restaurant. I may not order chicken again when we’re out.
I’m reading the Omnivore’s dilemma now and it definitely changes your whole perspective towards food. Yesterday I had to go to Safeway and it felt gross!!! I couldn’t even look at the food. I only buy organic, free range, no hormones or antibiotics added meats, but as I’m learning on this book… most of it is just marketing bullshit. I’m going to stick with the Farmer’s Market as much as possible.
I hope they de-feather the chicken for me, otherwise I won’t be able to make it, it sounds really bad. Did I tell you my granny used to buy her chickens alive? I think I did, I can’t believe how such a cute little lady could do something so horrible! (it tasted heavenly though).
Finally did it! So far so good, it’s in the oven right now and smells delicious
Julia, I have the Omnivore’s Dilemma, but haven’t read it just yet. I’m re-reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which I absolutely love. It’s funny, now that I’m used to free range chicken, I can’t stand the factory kind. We went out for lunch a week or so ago and I had a Caesar salad with chicken breast. The chicken was so dried out and horrible I couldn’t even eat it. It was terrible. Let me know how it went at the farmers market!!
Curious Baker, let me know how it came out! I made another one on Sunday for my boyfriend’s brother’s birthday lunch. I left out the potatoes and added more apples, which I love.
Got one word for ya…riquísimo! Don’t know whether it was the apples, the coconut milk, the curry or the combination of all three but that is a dish to be reckoned with. As I said not much into savouries but I’ll definitely be making this again!
Yeah! SO glad you liked it. I love this recipe. We just had leftovers from Sunday’s lunch tonight. The apples are so good. And in my opinion, curry goes with everything…except possibly with chocolate, though I have been tempted to try.
Just out of curiosity, if you’re not into savory dishes…what do you eat for lunch and dinner?
I do eat! I just don’t BLOG savoury dishes because, I have a sweet tooth and I generally find sweet dishes more interesting and exciting to make and savoury dishes are much more accessible to the gluten free community so…what did I have for dinner? hmmm…Fish with fennel and orange butter, planning tuna steaks and callaloo for tomorrow, ate your chicken dish the other day, then friday’s maybe gonna be a venison day? Love arabic food, I have an (un)healthy obsession for chickpeas, then the usual organic fare, brown rice in all it’s forms, as well as wild, red,..that’s all I can think of right now…How about you? What’s on the menu for this week?…..Curry and Chocolate? Hmmm chocolate does go with everything but I don’t know if I’m THAT curious!
AHhhh….that’s funny! I imagined you ate “normal” food as well, but was confused by your comment. I’m definitely more of a savory person, but I bake so much for my boyfriend, that my blog ends up mixed.
The fish with fennel and orange butter sounds amazing. Mmmm venison! And I love Arabic food, too.
What’s on the menu for this week? With the exception of chicken, which is a big ordeal now that I do it whole, I usually don’t plan ahead for meals. With chicken, I start browsing online and getting ideas a day or so before.
When we go to the fruit and veggie store, I get whatever looks good, without thinking of meals. And when I place a phone order, I tend to order the same old things.
Meal planning is kind of a spur of the moment thing. Like, I need to get dinner ready by the time my boyfriend gets home from work, and I feel like chicken rather than fish (we don’t eat beef in the evenings), so I open up my spice cabinet and see what I feel like doing with the fish. And then I check out the veggies in the fridge and see if I want to go with salad or something cooked.
Lunch is a faster meal. We usually both eat at home, together, and whoever finished exercise first tends to get the meal started. It’s also the meal when we take advantage of any leftovers there may be.
Back to my own personal mystery, I’ve had chile and chocolate, so maybe curry and chocolate is doable. I will definitely have to try it and see. Hm. You’ll be the first to know.
I dunno man, I’m thinking curry and chocolate is pushing the savoury/sweet boundary a bit too far, but let me know if you like it & I’ll give it a go. I have on and off days with food planning, this week’s a good week, but often throw-together-the-first-thing-that-comes-to-your head is generally the order of the day, which produces either the most uninspiring or the most exciting meals
p.s chile and chocolate is heavenly! but it sure aint curry! You know we’ve mulled this over so much I almost feel like we should set ourselves a challenge to do a curry chocolate dish
Well, I just did a search for “curry and chocolate” and it appears we’re not all that crazy. There are curry chocolate bars, and I found a recipe for curry-chocolate muffins, which is what I was planning to try anyway. I also came across a recipe fro curry-coconut-chocolate something, I can’t remember now whether they were muffins or what.
So I’ll give it a try either this week or the next, and let you know! Now that I know others have tried it, I feel like I’m not 100% crazy and it might actually come out okay. We’ll see!
You’re right, I googled it too and found quite a few recipes!…I’ll stay tuned and see what you some up with!
I’ll let you know. Are you baking a pie tomorrow for Pi Day? I’m trying to decide what to do.
Pi Day? I might have it I’d have known, but it’s also mother’s day so I reckon I’ll post my brownie recipe, just finished it up!
Great! Then I’ll have something totally new to make. I’m getting bored with my weekly changes to my basic chocolate muffin recipe.
This looks amazing! I have some left-over coconut milk and I was looking for something to use it on. I think I found it!
Hi there Patti! You won’t regret it. This is a delicious recipe. Let me know how it comes out if you give it a try. Thanks for stopping by!