Cooking with Dr. Monkey

Today's episode "Shoot Out at the Car Wash."

Oops, I mean it's "Red Chicken Curry with Saffron Rice with Raisins."

We watched an episode of Take Home Chef the other night where the take home chef fixed a nice couple a red shrimp curry with saffron rice with raisins and it looked good so I made my version of his dish here. Since we live so far inland I decided not to use the frozen shrimp that is sold around here in grocery stores, I decided to use chicken instead.

I cubed two chicken breasts and I put them in the hot wok that had canola oil and cracked black pepper in it. As the chicken cooked I put in three roughly chopped cloves of garlic and a good size hunk of fresh ginger that I had finely sliced.
Then I added a small red bell pepper that I chopped up, half of a chopped up yellow bell pepper, half of a chopped up Anaheim pepper. I also chopped up a big ol' white onion and tossed it in the wok as well. As that cooked I put on my rice. To the rice I added about half a cup of organic raisins and a wisp of saffron and I let it cook up.
After the meat and veggies cooked a bit I put in two and a half heaping spoonfuls of the red Thai curry paste I bought today, I usually like to make my Thai curry fresh but since I have a hard time finding red chili's around here I used this paste instead and it's quite good as it turns out. I also added that small can of reduced fat coconut milk and that chopped up celery.
After everything was done I plated it and I drizzled some extra red curry sauce from the wok over the whole shebang and then I added the chopped up jalapeno from the previous picture.

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It turned out quite well and I'll make this again for sure but I'll add a little salt to the meat and veggies as they cook because the salt will bring out the flavors a bit more and since I don't ingest much salt during the day I can splurge a little at supper.

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My vegetarian friends, you can substitute tofu, or mushrooms, or zucchini or whatever for the meat and I think you'll find this dish is quite tasty and has just the right amount of heat.