Jamaican Curry Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 -2 1/4 lb chicken
• 4 ounces blue mountain curry powder
• onion powder, to taste
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 ounce garlic powder
• 2 ounces cooking oil
• 1/2 ounce vinegar
• 4 ounces water
• 1 potato, cut in eight pieces (optional)
• 1/2 ounce black pepper (optional)
• 1 sprig thyme (optional)

Recipe

• 1 cut chicken into 8 pieces, or more if you so desire, wash with vinegar and water in a pot or kitchen sink.
• 2 combine chicken with all ingredients and rub together until curry powder is wet and sticks to the chicken.
• 3 turn your heat on high, heat the cooking oil in a large iron skillet with 2 tablespoon of curry powder until the oil is hot and curry powder changes color.
• 4 add chicken to the hot oil, then turn down the heat to medium, add the water immediately.
• 5 add diced potato then cover the pot and simmer. stir the ingredients in the pot then taste the gravy, after fifteen minutes.
• 6 if you need to add anything more like salt to bring it to taste, now is the time.
• 7 add the 1 sprig of thyme and black pepper to the ingredients in the pot. allow to simmer until chicken is moist and tender.
• 8 option 1: you can thicken the curry chicken gravy with bread crumbs or cornstarch. i prefer to thicken the gravy by using evaporation.
• 9 option 2: remove the chicken from the skillet and place in a bowl.
• 10 turn up the fire to high and allow gravy to boil. using a spoon, stir the gravy slowly and pay close attention to the consistency of the stew, turn off the stove when it becomes thick enough.
• 11 then add curry chicken back to the stew.
• 12 your food is ready!