Sunday, October 23, 2011

FAVORITE MEAL EVER!

All right, guys.  Here it is.  The recipe you've all been waiting for, drooling for, dying for....
(not at all dramatic - you'll understand when you taste the heavenly goodness that is this curried chicken!)

Anna's Curried Chicken with Rice
(I always approximate measurements... but I'll do my best to standardize it for ya.  Feel free to mess with amounts to your taste)
Serves Four
Ingredients:
2 Cans of Cream of Mushroom Soup (the smaller ones, not family size)
3 Tb Curry Powder
2 Tb Cinnamon
Honey
Handful of Raisins (super specific, haha)
2 Small-Medium Sized Yellow Pears (the best are the almost mushy ones)
Rice for 4 Servings (depends, I guess... and I use Minute Rice, because it's so dang hard to cook rice up here at 7500 ft.)
4-6 Chicken Breasts (defrosted, obviously)
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1) Heat cream of mushroom soup over medium heat, stirring in 1 cup of water (do not follow instructions on the can!)
2) Stir in curry powder and cinnamon as directed (or to taste).  Mix thoroughly so there are no chunks of mushroom, etc.
3) Stir in honey.  This is an optional step... I love love love the honey added, and usually put in quite a bit.  Use your discretion.
4) Let sit on low heat for 10 minutes, stir in raisins after the 10 minutes are nearly up.
--Preheat oven to 375.
5) Dip defrosted chicken in flour and place in medium-sized (glass) baking pan.
6) Cover chicken with the mushroom soup/curry/honey/cinnamon mixture.
7) Slice pears (I like them to still have the shape of the pear when I slice it... but I'm not sure what the technical term is for that... so... do what you want, just get those pears on those chickens!) and place on top of the chicken and soup-mixture.
8) Place in bottom rack of oven, let bake for ~30 minutes.

Then... just make rice as you see fit.  You don't even need to eat it with rice, but it's so so good to let the rice soak up the soup-curry sauce.  Highly recommended.

Serve each chicken breast with at least one slice of pear, and plenty of sauce.

Enjoy!  Let me know what you think, or if you have any additions/suggestions to this already near-perfect recipe!  :)

Here are a couple pictures for inspiration!


Before Baking


After Baking
(this picture is from a different batch... sans raisins)

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