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[quote=Anonymous]Ok it's 20:06 here and I'm back after sedating the wild toddler. OP you can literally make a homemade chicken curry in like 10 minutes. Just need to do some grocery shopping first. I assume you have cooking oil, salt, garlic cloves, onions and chicken in the house (chicken breast is what I like to cook with - easiest to chop into cubes). Then you can save time by buying some readymade tomato puree instead of buying fresh tomatoes and adding the chopping of that into your prep time.

Then you need some Indian-specific ingredients: get some cumin, some turmeric, green chillies, and the all-important garam masala. Masala is the spice mix that makes an Indian curry what it is. Every region and every damn family in fact has its own take on what the masala mix should be. You can buy masala powder at any specialty South Asian store, whether Pakistani or Indian or whatever. There's no "correct" masala for chicken curry, it's all up to what you and your family decide you like best. You might as well buy one or two and experiment.

A well-known Indian brand that sells masala mixes is Aachi, you can find them pretty much at any South Asian store or on the Internet. But there's tons of other sellers of garam masala mix: http://www.igourmet.com/shoppe/Trudy-Ann%27s-Garam-Masala---All-Organic-Ingredients.asp

Ok I think those were all the ingredients you really need for a basic curry. You CAN add double cream later if you want to make it a creamy, buttery curry, but all the ingredients I've listed are the basic essentials. And your cooking oil can just be regular vegetable oil - don't use olive oil.

Chop the onion (and tomatoes, if you decided to not use puree), green chillies and 2 garlic cloves up really, really small and remove the chilli seeds. (2 green chillies should be good, and make that 1 onion & 1 tomato). Then chop up the chicken breast and shove it all in the frying pan. Keep stirring over medium heat till it turns brown. Then add masala, turmeric, salt, cumin and maybe cilantro if you want and keep stirring. Then add the cream if you want to make it creamy.  All of this shouldn't take more than 10 minutes to cook.

Then cook up some rice (basmati rice is always good) and enjoy!

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