I have been holding cooking classes in my house for high school teenagers. I recently had a second one where I had three classes back to back and had a total of about 20 students. It was a lot of fun interacting with the kids and teaching them some delicious dishes. One of the dishes we made was this coconut chicken curry. Usually a chicken curry takes a while to make. My cooking classes last for about an hour and a half .. and so I wanted to make sure we have plenty of time to cook this dish as well as a rice pilaf. In order to make it quick, I used several tricks. One was to marinate the chicken over night with garlic, ginger, cilantro and lemon juice. The other thing I did was to roast a whole onion in the oven till it was soft and gooey.

When all the ingredients came together, it took no time at cook it up. The curry was delicious with the addition of coconut milk.

The kids really enjoyed the food and thought it was quite easy to replicate…
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