Curried Chicken with Vermicelli
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the chicken
Cook the chicken in the chicken broth until fully cooked.
Remove the chicken and let it cool before cutting it into pieces.
Cook the vermicelli
In the same broth, boil the vermicelli until tender, then drain well.
Serve
Arrange the vermicelli around the chicken pieces on a serving platter.
Sprinkle curry powder over the chicken and serve.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Chicken
- Provides the main protein, and cooking it in broth helps keep it moist.
- Vermicelli
- Forms the base of the dish and soaks up the broth flavor as it softens.
- Chicken broth
- Cooks the chicken and vermicelli while adding savory flavor and moisture.
The step that matters
Boiling and draining the vermicelli until just tender. Thin noodles keep softening from residual heat after they leave the pot, so they can turn mushy if overcooked. Draining well removes surface liquid that would otherwise dilute the dish.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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