Curried Chicken, Lentil & Mushroom Skillet - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    2 chicken breasts
    1 teaspoon paprika
    1 teaspoon curry powder
    2 garlic cloves
    1 (12 ounce) can coconut juice
    1 1/2 cups chicken broth, low sodium, gluten free
    1 cup green lentil
    8 ounces mushrooms, fresh
    12 green onions
    1 tablespoon olive oil
    2 teaspoons cornstarch
    2 tablespoons plain yogurt
Preparation
    Pound chicken breasts to flatten and cut into bite size chunks. Place pieces into bowl and sprinkle with curry & paprika, stir spices into chicken, set aside.
    Clean and chop mushrooms, put into large skillet with 1 T olive oil and begin to cook down, stirring occassionally. Meanwhile chop up green onion, set aside a bit of the copped green tops for garnish and add the rest to skillet.
    After about 8-10 minutes add the chopped chicken & the chopped onion and brown all together stirring often. Remove browned chicken mushroom mixture from skillet and put into a glass bowl. Set aside. No need to rinse out the skillet!
    Add Chicken broth, coconut juice, chopped garlic, and bring to a boil. Turn down to a simmer as soon as it starts to boil and add in the lentils, cover, simmer, stirring occassionally, until lentils are tender (about 20-25 min).
    Stir in 2 t cornstarch to thicken and mix well. Bring up to a boil to thicken and turn the heat back down.
    Add back in the chicken mushroom mixture & heat through well.
    Just before serving stir in 2 T Plain Yogurt & top with Green onion tops that were set aside earlier.

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