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Dinner · 40 min · 4 bowls

Massaman curry

A pinch of peanut butter and cinnamon in coconut curry. Potato is the body.

The sheet · 4 bowls · 40 min

easy

Why tonight. A pinch of peanut butter and cinnamon in coconut curry. Potato is the body.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • potato
  • coconut milk
  • curry powder
  • peanut butter

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: lime, cinnamon.

Method

  1. Fry the curry paste or powder in a little of the thick coconut cream until the oil separates out. That splitting is deliberate and it is the base.
  2. Peanut butter loosened separately with hot liquid before it goes in, or it clumps.
  3. Potato and chicken simmered gently in the rest of the coconut milk — never a hard boil, which splits it for good.
  4. Cinnamon and lime at the end. It is the mildest and sweetest of the curries and the acid keeps it from cloying.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
potato
Waxy holds its shape, floury falls apart, and almost every potato complaint is the wrong one for the job.
coconut milk
Fat that carries chili and spice further than water can, with a sweetness underneath.
curry powder
A blend, not a spice, and every tin is a different blend.
peanut butter
Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

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