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Curried Chicken

Chicken breasts stay moist when cooked in the microwave on a bed of onion and apple. Ketchup, curry powder, and yogurt make a sweet, mildly spicy, and creamy sauce.
Everyday Food, June 2006
  • Prep Time 15 minutes
  • Total Time 25 minutes
  • Yield Serves 4
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Ingredients

  • 1 small (1 cup) red onion, cut into 1/2-inch chunks
  • 1 (1 1/4 cups) green apple, quartered, cored, and cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 2 cloves garlic, sliced
  • 2 tablespoons ketchup
  • 2 teaspoons curry powder
  • Coarse salt and ground pepper
  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, about 6 ounces each
  • 1/4 cup low-fat plain yogurt
  • 1/4 cup chopped cilantro

Directions

  1. In a 2-quart microwave-safe dish with lid, stir together onion, apple, garlic, ketchup, and curry powder. Add 1/4 cup water. Season with salt and pepper; stir to combine.

  2. Add chicken; season with salt and pepper. Cover and microwave on high for 5 minutes. Turn chicken pieces over. Cover and microwave on high for 5 minutes longer or until chicken is opaque throughout. Lift chicken from dish, and divide among four serving plates.

  3. Stir yogurt into onion-apple mixture in dish; spoon sauce over chicken, and sprinkle cilantro over each plate. Serve with rice or noodles, if desired.

Recipe Reviews

Reviews (3)

  • CAS_Smith
    1 Apr, 2010

    What are the little round green things in the pictures? They look like peas. capers or soy beans, anyone know?

  • nana1301
    23 Jan, 2009

    Another thing: took 20 minutes in the microwave to be completely cooked, turning over the breasts every 5 minutes. To have them in 10, I think you should slice the chicken breasts before cooking them. This could be another nice way to serving them.

  • nana1301
    22 Jan, 2009

    Delicious!! what I added and it is not in the recipe but you could see in the plate photo are caju nuts. At the end, along with the plain yogurt. Nice touch!