Name: Taj Mahal Chicken
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon tomato paste; 4 cloves garlic, minced (about 4 teaspoons); 1 large bay leaf; minced fresh cilantro or parsley leaves; salt and ground black pepper; 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs; 1 (14.5 ounce) can crushed or diced tomatoes; 1 teaspoon dried thyme; ½ cup unsweetened apple sauce; salt and pepper, to taste; 1 large red bell pepper, diced (about 1 cup); 1 large onion, diced (about 1 cup); ½ tablespoon plus ½ tablespoon coconut oil; ⅓ cup water; ⅓ cup raisins; ½ cup canned coconut milk; 2-3 tablespoons curry powder

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Well Fed 2

By Melissa Joulwan

Published 2013

About

Sure, I could have just called this Chicken Curry, but where’s the fun in that? This is totally Americanized, combining Indian curry powder, raisins, tomatoes, and chicken into gloppy comfort food. It’s warm, soothing, creamy, saucy, and 100 percent inauthentic. It’s also ridiculously yummy. It took 20,000 workers 22 years and 1000 elephants (!) to complete the construction of the Taj Mahal, but you only need a little more than an hour to get this meal on the table.