dinner tonight

I do a sort of Coronation chicken just with mayonnaise, curry powder, lemon juice and a bit of spicy mango chutney stirred in. Usually it's just to liven up leftover roast chicken.

Hey will try the coronation chicken recipe and glad you liked the cod and orange dish was telling a friend last week about it and she gave me a favourite of hers again really simple

Chicken and Orange - chicken thighs or breast sliced raw, couple of chopped garlic bulbs, grated orange rind cover in black bean sauce and put in over till cooked about 40 minutes. I added the left over orange rind to rice and it was lovely and different. Enjoy

M0nica, thanks for posting your recipe. I've only just found it !!.. Don't know where I've been, but thought I had looked out for it. Thanks to all the other suggestions also.

I would add des spoon apricot jam ?

That sounds good. I've got some leftover cooked chicken so might try it tomorrow.
We're having various salads at the moment. Apart from the usual greens, tomato and cucumber, last week I made a red lentil salad.
Start with a chopped onion and some curry spices soft fried in olive oil, then add red lentils and some veg. stock. Cook until the lentils are soft - very quick to cook.
When cold either have it as it is, or and a few raisins and nuts.
Sorry, no good at quantities.

Sod's law that I can't find it but it is Hellman's mayo with a small red apple finely cubed with a little lemon juice to stop it browning, a handful of plump raisins or chopped ready to eat dried apricots a teaspoon of mild curry powder to taste and the cooked chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces. The curry powder doesn't have a raw taste it seems to cook out while it stands. I serve it in a shallow oval dish lined on the sides with crisp Lettuce such as little gem as part of a buffet or with other salads for lunch.

I make another very easy version which I will post when I find it. It uses mayo.

This is my version as done yesterday (helps me avoid any copyright infringment and I never stick exactly to any recipe).

1lb chicken fillet,
1/2 block of coconut cream
200ml yoghourt
4 tbsp Korma curry paste.

1) Poach the chicken in the microwave. Let it cool and then break up into bit size pieces.

2)Put the coconut cream in a pan with the curry paste and 125ml water, gently heat and stir until the coconut cream, water and curry paste make a smooth sauce. Leave to cool. When cool stir in the yoghourt (I do not like yoghourt so used 200ml 0% fromage fraiche NOT creme fraiche).

3) Combine the cold chicken and cold sauce. Put in a dish and scatter some dessicated coconut on top (optional)

I served it with boiled rice with chopped chives stirred through, to add colour and Malay sambals, little bowls of peanuts, sliced omelette, crispy fried onions, chopped tomato, cucumber and banana for people to garnish their curry to taste.

It provided ample for three yesterday and will do lunch today as well. I will be serving it today just with in Indian style courgette chutney rather than sambals.

Yesterday I made an 'everything but the kitchen sink' oven- baked frittata. It was huge so gave some to DD and will eat the rest with salads over the next few days.

M0nica, could you please put that recipe for Cheats Coronation Chicken, on here. I wanted to make Cor.Chicken last week,but couldn't be bothered with all the faffing around, so if there is a short cut that would be great. Thanks in advance

I have just made a 'cheats' coronation chicken. The sauce was simply coconut cream, curry paste and yoghourt. I think I cut it out of a colour supplement, possibly the DM, but it was so quick to make and the visitor I served it to said it was delicious, as did DH - and I really liked it too.

I've just googled it. It looks absolutely delicious.

here it is