Smokey Jo’s Coronation Chicken Recipe

Of course, we wouldn’t expect you to go through the trouble of cooking your own chicken when you can easily use our smoked chicken as a luxurious and fabulously simple substitute. Why not try Smokey Jo’s Coronation Chicken? Recipe Serves 6.

Ingredients

8 170g Smoked Chicken Breasts
1tbsp Olive Oil
1 small Onion, peeled and chopped
1 tbsp freshly ground garam masala
¼ pint stock – use water and a ¼ stock cube
1 rounded tsp Tomato Puree
2 rounded tbsp gooseberry or apricot jam or sweet chutney
95ml Yoghurt
190 ml Mayonnaise
3 tbsp single cream
Handful chopped Hazelnut’s

Instructions

To prepare the sauce – Heat the oil in a saucepan, add the onion, cover and fry very gently for 5 minutes until soft.

Stir in the garam masala and cook for a further few minutes to bring out the flavour. Stir in the stock tomato puree, strained lemon juice and jam or chutney. Stir until boiling, then simmer for 5 minutes.

Draw off the heat and strain the sauce into a basin. Allow to cool, then stir in the mayonnaise, cream, and yoghurt.

Cut the chicken into chunky pieces and arrange in a serving dish. Spoon over the curry mayonnaise and serve with plain boiled cold rice tossed in French dressing with deseeded quartered tomatoes, diced cucumber and a few seedless raisins or diced fresh pineapple added.

Finish with a handful of chopped hazelnuts.

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