Fruity Masala Chicken
Mild family-friendly Chicken Masala with apples and sweet potatoes mashed up for a delicious sweet-and-spicy sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken
- 1 red onion chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger
- 3 tbsp Cape Malay curry spice add more if you need more heat
- 2 medium-sized apples chopped
- 3 bananas sliced
- 1 sweet potato or potato chopped
- 2 tbsp white apple cider vinegar
- 1 tbsp cornflour Maizena
- 1 tbsp apricot jam
- coriander leaves for garnishing
- 1 tbsp olive oil extra virgin
Instructions
- Sauté the onions in a drizzle of olive oil together with the ginger
- Just before adding the chicken, add another drizzle of olive oil and Cape Masala spice
- Fry spices for two minutes then add the chicken
- Sauté the chicken before stirring, giving it a moment to seal
- When it has reached the stage where it is nice and brown, add 1 cup of water before placing the lid on for 10 minutes on low heat
- After 10 minutes take the pot off the heat and shred the chicken meat with 2 forks
- Return to the heat, add apples, sweet potato, jam and vinegar then cover
- If the chicken mixture is too dry, add another cup of water so that the vegetables and apples can soften
- Simmer for 5-10 minutes, or until apple and sweet potato are soft
- When apples and sweet potato are soft, mash with a fork
- The sweet potato thickens the sauce
- Add the Maizena, pre-mixed with 1 cup of water, then the bananas to the chicken and stir, cover, and simmer for another 5 to 10 minutes
- Serve with plain boiled rice. Garnish with one or two sprigs of fresh coriander.