Our Recipes, re-invented from cooking shows
Chicken Kama Sutra
Prep. Time:
Baking Time:
Total Time:
30 mins
15 mins
45 mins
Serves:
Serves 4 - 6
In episode 5 of Season 22 of Top Chef ™, we saw Lana and Vinny spend a day as line cooks in a Toronto Indian restaurant where the focus was on them learning to cook and serve a dish that the owner called "Chicken Kama Sutra". We heard that the dish was called this because it was cooked with love ... but also with cashews, tomato, fenugreek and saffron!
Later, Lana and Vinny both wanted to replicate the dish, but Vinny also wanted to introduce an element of a mustard hollandaise - a decision that eventually disappointed the judges.
Our version aims to be much closer to the original Toronto dish, except that saffron is truly expensive and would put the dish out of the reach of most households, so we made a really tasty dish without it. Enjoy!
Ingredients
120 g butter
10 chicken thighs
1 heaped tablespoon fenugreek seeds
1 heaped tablespoon fennel seeds
0.5 heaped tablespoon coriander seeds
1 sweet yellow onion
2 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon yellow curry paste
1 tablespoon ground cumin
220 g corn kernels (fresh if available, otherwise frozen)
1 can (398 ml) coconut milk
1 cup heavy cream
2 cups chicken stock
200 ml canned crushed tomatoes
salt and pepper
Instructions
Melt the butter and seal the chicken thighs, searing quickly to golden brown.
Remove the chicken and leave it to drain on kitchen paper. Meanwhile, put the different seeds into the hot butter and cook fiercely until the seeds are popping, then drain and dry them and grind them (we use a coffee grinder - if that's a stretch, see the note below about buying spices).
In the butter, cook the roughly chopped onion and the peeled, sliced garlic over low heat until caramelized (10 - 15 minutes).
Add back the ground spices plus the curry paste and cumin.
Return the chicken to the pan and add corn, coconut milk, cream, crushed tomatoes and chicken stock.
Cook over a low heat for about 15 minutes then set aside the chicken to rest while you pulse the sauce until almost completely smooth. Serve hot with flatbread and the chicken skin, fried.
This bundle of spices provides everything you need to cook two batches of Chicken Kama Sutra (each batch serves 4 - 6). This avoids the need to buy whole jars of spices which you may not use again. We also sell these seeds whole, if you enjoy the process of cooking and grinding.
- 1 heaped tablespoon fenugreek seeds, roasted and ground
- 1 heaped tablespoon fennel seeds, roasted and ground
- 0.5 heaped tablespoon coriander seeds, roasted and ground
- 1 tablespoon yellow curry paste
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
Shipping is included and the items will be shipped inside 24 hours of your order.
$17.00
This bundle of spices provides everything you need to cook two batches of Kama Sutra (each batch serves 4 - 6). This avoids the need to buy whole jars of spices which you may not use again. We also sell these seeds already sautéed in oil and ground.
- 1 heaped tablespoon fenugreek seeds
- 1 heaped tablespoon fennel seeds
- 0.5 heaped tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon yellow curry paste
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
Shipping is included and the items will be shipped inside 24 hours of your order.
