Easy Eats for Hard Times
- 2 cups cut-up chicken, raw or cooked
- 1 onion, sliced in half circles
- 1 red pepper, sliced in strips
- 1 green pepper sliced in strips
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons green ginger, minced
- Cooking oil
- 2 potatoes, scrubbed and trimmed, but not peeled, cut in cubes
- ½ of a cauliflower, cut in bite size pieces
- 4 tablespoons curry powder (more or less as desired)
- Salt to taste
- Plain yogurt
Heat a large heavy skillet and pour in the oil to cover the bottom. Add the garlic and ginger, stir for 1 minute. Add chicken, onion, and peppers. Cover and cook on medium heat, stirring frequently, until chicken is opaque and peppers are just past crisp. Shake in 2 tablespoons curry powder and stir well. Meanwhile, steam the potatoes and cauliflower until they are fork tender. Add them to the skillet with a bit of the cooking water, and shake in the rest of the curry powder; stir again until color is even throughout. Add salt to taste. Heat gently and serve with plain yogurt on the side.
—Patty C., Fallbrook, Calif.
