AIBU to ask for your easy sweet chicken curry recipes!

[Butterfly98]

We love a good chicken curry once a week in our house but kids have been complaining lately that they are not sweet enough! I'm interested to hear all of your fairly easy to rustle up curry recipes especially if they include natural sweeteners like mango and coconut milk and anything new that I haven't thought of.... also interested in lamb or beef options too!

Thanks

What about a korma made by adding cream , ground almonds and honey to your existing recipe

That sounds yum! I hadn't thought about adding honey before

Here is Mrs Beaton's prawn curry recipe; super simple and the sauce is amazing with chicken too. v mild and slightly sweet. Great for kids until they get their 'spice legs'.

586.—PRAWNS, CURRY OF. (Fr.—Crevettes à l'Indienne.)

Ingredients.—2 dozen prawns, 1½ ozs. of butter, 1 dessertspoonful of curry powder, 1 dessertspoonful of flour, 1 sour apple coarsely-chopped, 1 small onion sliced, 1 tablespoonful of cocoanut grated, 1 teaspoonful of lemon-juice, ½ a pint of stock, salt.

Method.—Shell the prawns and put them aside. Melt the butter in a stewpan, fry the onion without browning, then add the curry-powder and flour, and fry slowly for at least 20 minutes. Add the stock, apple, cocoanut, and a little salt, simmer gently for ½ an hour, then strain and return to the stewpan. Season to taste, add the lemon-juice put in the prawns, and when thoroughly hot serve with well-boiled rice.

Time.—About 1 hour. Average Cost, 2s. 6d. to 6s., according to the size of the prawns. Sufficient for 5 or 6 persons. Seasonable at any time.

(a side note: 24 prawns for 5 or 6 people!)

We do a mild sweet korma and add tinned peaches. Curried peach is amazing!

A good dollop of mango chutney helps with the sweetness as well.

Some great ideas there too, I will definitely be trying them out 👍

I sweeten up a chickpea curry by adding in grated mango, so good, would easily work with chicken

Peaches in korma, interesting!!

I usually put a spoonful of mango chutney in a curry for the kids.

Keep those suggestions coming in please! I'm going to Tesco in 1/2 hour so will stock up on ingredients, I'm especially liking the idea of peaches as I can imagine the flavour already! The prawn one sounds good too. Dh will be watching the footie at home this evening so I will surprise him with a new type of curry as he thinks he's having salad with his beer 😂

I normally just stick a spoon of sugar and a big spoon of natural yoghurt in my curry sauce, I like sweet-ish curry as I feel like the sweetness balances out all the tomato and chilli

More specifically I do an onion, garlic and ginger fried with some curry paste (whatever kind you fancy, I like madras but maybe tikka masala for kids) then add meat and tomatoes and cook until the sauce is nice and thick. I add the sugar and yogurt at the end

I usually make curry totally from scratch but I saw a recipe by that Lorraine chef woman involving a tub of sweet chilli Philadelphia
Tried it in a rush and everyone loves it - even my very conservative non curry eating parents

Wait, is this MN?! No one lecturing about the perils of sugar or childhood obesity?! No one telling you your palate isn't sophiscated enough if you enjoy sweet stuff?!
Preposterous .

I've never thought about adding grated mango to curry, must try it when the fruit and veg place has them 2 for £1!

Wait, is this MN?! No one lecturing about the perils of sugar or childhood obesity?! No one telling you your palate isn't sophiscated enough if you enjoy sweet stuff?!
Preposterous wink.
It is MN: one chicken will make 50,000 portions of curry.

You need a korma or I personally find butter chicken sweet

Ha ha chesirechat! Btw Stephenstrange do you grate the ginger or slice it? I'm off shopping now so I await more ideas when I come back!

Yes, you're BU for even consuming chicken.

That was a living being that had to be bred just to be exploited and live a life of suffering and cruelty so you can have a moment of satisfaction.

Not your body, not your food.

squeelof1 hah, seems I predicted the wrong complaint.

OP, didn't suggest she'd like to be vegetarian...

Try Agave nectar instead of sugar, tastes sweet and has a low glycaemic index. It works well in curries or Chinese dishes. It can be drizzled over strawberries and raspberries, or over non sweetened cereal or porridge.

Use coconut milk instead of any other liquid and a big spoon of mango chutney, along with usual curry paste, garlic, ginger, onions red peppers etc, my anti spice father even eats it, personally I prefer a good kick of chilli!

I'm back and I've stocked up on coconut milk, peaches and ginger!

Yes ChesireChat I wasn't expecting that kind of complaint from Squeelof1! So just to set the record straight Squeel1 I always buy free range chicken or even totally organic if I can get my hands on it so there is no suffering or cruelty. Please get your facts straight before making accusations, otherwise you can Squeel off!

I'm about to prepare dinner now, really looking forward to it! Thanks for all the suggestions

Sweet chicken curry Jesus, there's always one

I make a curry sauce by cooking onion, red pepper, carrots and sweet potato plus garlic , ginger and spices. When soft I add coconut milk, then blend it all together.

Now now Turniphead don't be cheeky! You should give it a try!!!

I was referring to the vegangelist

Oh sorry Turniphead! Now I see what you mean 😂, btw that's a great word vegangilist!