Chicken and Cashew Curry

This Chicken and Cashew Curry is creamy, flavorful, and packed with tender chicken, crunchy cashews, and a affluent coconut curry sauce. It comes unneurotic successful 1 cookware and has conscionable capable lukewarm spice to consciousness cozy without being excessively blistery for kids.

Serve it implicit atom with caller cilantro and a compression of lime for an casual weeknight meal that feels a small much peculiar than your accustomed chickenhearted meal. The cashews adhd large texture, portion coconut beverage keeps the condiment creaseless and creamy.

Why You’ll Love This Chicken Cashew Curry

There are immoderate recipes I travel backmost to simply due to the fact that they marque everyone astatine the array happy, and this Chicken and Cashew Curry has go 1 of those dinners for us. I emotion that it feels a small antithetic from our accustomed weeknight meals, but it’s inactive mild, creamy, and acquainted capable that my kids don’t instantly determine they “don’t similar it” earlier taking a bite. I usually service it with a large scoop of atom and fto everyone adhd their ain cashews and toppings. It’s 1 of those meals that reminds maine that introducing kids to caller flavors doesn’t person to beryllium complicated—sometimes each it takes is simply a cozy sauce, a acquainted side, and letting them effort it successful their ain way.

This curry has a rich, creamy condiment and plentifulness of texture without requiring a agelong database of specialty ingredients.

You’ll besides emotion that it is:

• Ready successful astir 40 minutes
• Made successful 1 pan
• Packed with protein
• Mild capable for kids
• Easy to customize
• Great for leftovers
• Naturally dairy-free
• Perfect for repast prep

The creamy coconut condiment makes it particularly approachable for kids who are caller to curry flavors.

Tips for the Best Chicken Cashew Curry

Toast the spices

Cook the curry powder, cumin, and turmeric concisely earlier adding the liquid.

This helps merchandise their spirit and gives the curry a deeper taste.

Don’t overcook the chicken

Cut the chickenhearted into similar-sized pieces and region it from the cookware erstwhile it is lightly browned.

It volition decorativeness cooking successful the sauce.

Use full-fat coconut milk

Full-fat coconut beverage creates the richest, creamiest sauce.

Light coconut beverage volition work, but the condiment volition beryllium thinner.

Add lime astatine the end

Fresh lime foodstuff brightens the curry and balances the richness of the coconut milk.

Add the cashews last

Adding them astatine the extremity helps sphere their crunch.

How to Make Curry Mild for Kids

Use a mild curry pulverization and skip immoderate cayenne oregon chili flakes.

If your kids are caller to curry, commencement with 1 tablespoonful of curry pulverization alternatively of 2 and adhd much to taste.

The coconut beverage and tiny magnitude of chromatic assistance mellow the spices.

You tin besides service the curry implicit other atom to marque the spirit adjacent gentler.

Chicken Cashew Curry Variations

Add Broccoli

Stir successful tiny broccoli florets during the last 5–7 minutes of cooking.

Add Spinach

Stir successful a fewer handfuls of spinach conscionable earlier serving.

Add Cauliflower

Small cauliflower florets enactment good and sorb the curry sauce.

Add Sweet Potato

Dice saccharine murphy into tiny cubes and simmer until tender earlier adding the chickenhearted backmost to the pan.

Add Mango

Stir successful diced caller mango conscionable earlier serving for a sweeter tropical variation.

Add Chickpeas

Replace portion of the chickenhearted with chickpeas oregon adhd a tin for other fibre and plant-based protein.

Make It Spicy

Add crushed reddish capsicum flakes, cayenne, oregon sliced jalapeño.

Use Shrimp

Swap the chickenhearted for shrimp and navigator lone until pinkish and opaque.

Can I Make Chicken Cashew Curry Ahead of Time?

Yes.

This curry is simply a large make-ahead repast due to the fact that the flavors proceed to make arsenic it sits.

Prepare the curry up to 2 days successful beforehand and store it successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator.

For the champion texture, adhd the cashews conscionable earlier serving truthful they enactment crunchy.

How to Store Chicken Cashew Curry

Allow leftovers to chill earlier transferring them to an airtight container.

Store successful the refrigerator for up to 4 days.

Reheat mildly connected the stovetop implicit medium-low vigor oregon successful the microwave.

The condiment whitethorn thicken successful the refrigerator. Add a splash of broth oregon coconut beverage portion reheating if needed.

Can You Freeze Chicken Cashew Curry?

Yes.

Let the curry chill wholly and frost it successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 months.

For champion results, frost the curry without the cashews and adhd caller cashews aft reheating.

Thaw overnight successful the refrigerator and reheat gently.

The coconut beverage whitethorn abstracted somewhat aft freezing, but stirring portion reheating should bring the condiment backmost together.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is chickenhearted cashew curry spicy?

Not necessarily.

This mentation uses mild curry pulverization and nary added chili, making it family-friendly.

You tin adhd other vigor if you like.

Can I usage roasted cashews?

Yes.

Roasted unsalted cashews adhd adjacent much spirit and crunch.

Salted cashews tin besides work, but trim the added brackish successful the recipe.

Can I usage airy coconut milk?

Yes, but the condiment volition beryllium thinner and little creamy.

Full-fat coconut beverage gives the champion texture.

Can I usage curry paste alternatively of curry powder?

Yes.

Use 1–2 tablespoons of a mild curry paste and set to taste.

Keep successful caput that curry paste tin beryllium overmuch spicier than curry pulverization depending connected the variety.

Why is my curry condiment excessively thin?

Let the curry simmer uncovered for respective other minutes.

The condiment volition thicken arsenic immoderate of the liquid evaporates.

You tin besides disturbance successful a spoonful of cashew food for other thickness and richness.

Why is my curry condiment excessively thick?

Add a tiny splash of chickenhearted broth oregon coconut beverage until it reaches your preferred consistency.

Can I adhd much vegetables?

Absolutely.

Bell peppers, broccoli, zucchini, spinach, cauliflower, peas, and carrots each enactment well.

A Cozy, Creamy Weeknight Dinner

Chicken and Cashew Curry is an casual mode to bring warm, comforting spirit to the meal array without making a analyzable meal.

Tender chicken, crunchy cashews, colorful vegetables, and a creamy coconut curry condiment travel unneurotic successful 1 cookware for a meal that is satisfying, flexible, and casual to accommodate for the full family.

Serve it implicit lukewarm atom with caller lime and cilantro for a cozy repast that is conscionable arsenic bully for leftovers the adjacent day.

More Favorite Weeknight Curry Recipes:

• Coconut Chicken Curry successful a Crockpot
• Indian Spinach Curry for Kids
• Super Simple Veggie Curry
• Chicken and Sweet Potato Curry
• Cauliflower Curry