Samoan Style Chicken Curry

by Lils | Our Food, Recipes

Here’s a dish we most likely inherited from Asian settlers in the Pacific. Samoan curry is made with powdered Indian spices, but it isn’t as strong or as fragrant as traditional curries.

Instead it is creamier, with spices balanced in a soul-food kinda way by the subtle sweetness of coconut cream.

Yum.

You can make Samoan curry with beef or lamb, but I prefer chicken only partly because it cooks faster.

My version of Samoan style chicken curry is so easy (and cheap) to make that it’s my go-to dish for pot-lucks and large family gatherings.

This recipe will feed an army – or 4, maybe 5 hungry Samoans.

Here’s what I used:

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