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🍽️ Creole-style Chicken with Saffron Curry Rice

771 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 chicken
• 1 kg tomatoes (or 800 g chunky canned tomatoes)
• 250 g snow peas
• 3 garlic cloves
• salt
• pepper (from the mill)
• 3 tbsp vegetable oil
• 0.5 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tbsp curry powder
• 200 ml chicken broth
• 300 g long-grain rice
• 20 g butter
• 1 pinch saffron
• 125 ml chicken broth
• pink peppercorns

Instructions

1. 1. Wash the chicken thoroughly and pat it dry with a kitchen towel.
2. 2. Cut the chicken into eight equal pieces.
3. 3. Make a cross-shaped cut at the bottom of the tomatoes.
4. 4. Pour boiling water over the tomatoes briefly and immediately shock them in cold water.
5. 5. Peel the loosened skin off the tomatoes.
6. 6. Quarter the peeled tomatoes and remove the core.
7. 7. Wash the snow peas and remove the tough ends.
8. 8. Let the snow peas drain well.
9. 9. Peel the garlic cloves and chop them finely.
10. 10. Rub the chicken pieces generously with salt and pepper.
11. 11. Heat oil in a large pan and sear the chicken pieces on high heat.
12. 12. Sprinkle cumin and curry powder over the searing chicken.
13. 13. Stir the garlic into the chicken.
14. 14. Deglaze the pan with the broth.
15. 15. Add the quartered tomatoes to the pan.
16. 16. Cover the pan and let the dish simmer gently for about 30 minutes.
17. 17. If the liquid evaporates too quickly, add a little more broth.
18. 18. Cook the rice according to the package instructions.
19. 19. Add the snow peas to the chicken in the pan.
20. 20. Let everything cook for another 10 minutes.
21. 21. Season the chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
22. 22. Heat the butter in a separate small pan.
23. 23. Sauté the saffron in the hot butter.
24. 24. Deglaze the saffron with a little broth.
25. 25. Take one-third of the cooked rice and mix it thoroughly with the saffron broth.
26. 26. Place the remaining rice in a serving bowl.
27. 27. Place the saffron rice on top of the plain rice.
28. 28. Sprinkle the dish with pink peppercorns.
29. 29. Serve the chicken together with the rice.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 771
• Protein: 75 g · Fett/Fat: 19 g · Carbs: 72 g