Mango Chicken Curry

I love curry dishes! I made this last night, it was wonderful! It reminded me of my mom, she always cooked like this... Now this recipe is a little spicy and if you don't like curry, it's not for you! Brian hates it.

Ingredients

• 3 Tbsp (or more) of vegetable oil
• 1 large onion
• 1/2 red bell pepper (I used a whole one)
• 2 garlic cloves (I used 4)
• 2 Tbsp FRESH minced ginger
• 2 Tbsp of yellow curry powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 2 mango's, peeled and diced
• 2 Tbsp cider vinegar or white vinegar
• 1 1/4 cup water
• 1 1/4 lbs skinless boneless chicken thighs or breasts, cut into 1-inch pieces
• 1/3 cup golden raisins
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• salt and pepper
• sugar
• Cilantro for garnish

Directions

1. Heat 2 Tbsp of oil in a large saute' pan over med-high heat. Add onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 5 min. Add the red bell pepper and another Tbsp of oil, cook a couple of minutes more. Add the curry powder and cumin, cook for a few more minutes. The spices will absorb some of the oil, so if anything begins to stick too much to the bottom of the pan, add a little more oil to the pan. Add the ginger and garlic, cook for one more minute more.
2. Add the vinegar, water, and 1/2 of the chopped mango to the pan. Increase the heat and bring to a boil, then lower the heat to maintain a low simmer for about 15 , minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove pan from heat. Scoop the sauce into a blender. Puree the sauce, pulsing until smooth. Return the sauce to the pan
3. Add chicken pieces and raisins to the pan. Return to a low simmer. Cover the pan and let cook for 8-10 minutes. Chicken should be just cooked through. (Use a knife to cut open the largest piece to check)
4. Add remaining mango pieces to the pan. Stir in the cream. Let it cook at a very low temperature for another minute or two, uncovered. Do not let boil! The cream will curdle and you don't want that! Add salt and pepper. Taste, if too bitter add sugar, if too sweet add vinegar. I had to at least add 2-3 Tbsp of sugar when I made it.

Serve over rice or couscous.

I didn't cook the chicken in the sauce. I actually made a tempura style batter and cooked the chicken separately chopped it in to 1-inch pieces, dipped the chicken and fried it in oil. Still good.

Kinda freaky...

Over the past couple of weeks there has been an increasing amount of break-in's that are happening during the day. The people have been targeting the houses in the historical district, thats us. They come in through the back alley's, walk around and check all of the doors, find one that is unlocked and just walk in. And the really creepy thing is that they don't care if your home. A couple of people have been home when the people walked in. Now, the neighborhood that I live in is a really good safe place. The homes are gorgous and I love living downtown. But because of that it brings in some really special people.

Yesterday, as I was picking Reese and Ash up from the neighbors house across the street, I noticed a red Dodge Shadow parking a couple of houses down, didn't really think much of it and went home. A little while later while I was in the kitchen, Ted started going nuts, and not his usual nuts either. He was out to kill!! Then I hear someone scream something and these guys start booking it down our driveway and the Red Dodge Shadow pulls up and they jump in. Isn't that weird? And I also heard that early Saturday morning some one was walking up and down the streets with a camera, taking pictures of the houses. It wasn't someone from the Historical Society either because the send letters around when they are doing it.

I just hope that we don't have to go through what some of my neighbors have. What really scares me is that I'm home all day by myself with my kids. What am I going to do if they break in? With my luck they'll break in while I'm having a bad day and I'll end up beating them with a rolling pin...

One thing that is one myside, is that my house looks like crap on the outside. And if someone does break in what are they going to take? We don't have nice thing! If they want to take the TV, go right ahead...that thing weighs at least 350 lbs.