Sandi requested that I post my "recipe" for the chicken curry I make w/goat yogurt. I apologize in advance, as it's probably not what you are expecting.
Ingredients:
Chicken breasts/tenders
Olive Oil/butter
Yogurt
Curry powder blend
Chicken:
Melt some butter or put a little olive oil so that it lightly covers the bottom of an oven-safe dish/pan. Take a sheet of wax paper, tear or cut it to about the same shape as the bottom of the dish, and dip it on the bottom of the dish, so you now have the butter/oil on the bottom of the dish and on the wax paper. This will keep the chicken moist. If you don't want to add any fat at all, at least use the wax paper, it'll still decrease the dryness of the chicken. Place your chicken breasts/breast tenderloins (raw not pre-cooked) in the dish, and put the wax paper on top, slip it into the oven. This is an old Julia Child recipe on doing the chicken, btw. Bake on 375 or so until they are done. Breast tenders may be done in 15min. If you are cooking frozen tenders like the ones I get from Target, it should be about 25min. Depending on the size of your skinless, deboned whole breasts, 20-35 min. 45min is way too long, they will be hard and dry, they should be white inside but still juicy. If you are used to using only a fork to cut your chicken, that's not going to work here, you will need a knife, they are not flaky.
Curry sauce:
Spray cooking oil into frying pan. Add spoonfuls of yogurt (I use goat because I am allergic to cow dairy), the amount is up to you. Then I heat it up, and liberally sprinkle curry powder (I use Morton & Basset blend), then stir as it is cooking. The curry flavor will get more intense after a few minutes, as it is incorporated fully into the yogurt, so don't go crazy. Keep tasting and adding curry to taste. If the flavor is too strong, add more yogurt. It's done when it tastes good and the sauce is nicely blended. Once you've put some chicken on a plate, pour it over your chicken.
That's it! I spend 2 min on the chicken prep (oil/dump chicken/insert into oven), maybe 5 min on the sauce.
Again, sorry if you were looking for real curry, this is the busy mom, can't be bothered to do a lot of prep work recipe.
