Pollo de la Koko y Mango

Although my health section makes it sound like I’m lamenting the fact that I am surrounded by delicious food, its not completely true. In fact I adore how much I have learned about real, local shopping, and how much I have improved in baking, cooking, and of course eating (although I could tone down the last one and still be content).

True, my eating habits have changed here. But its not all for the worse; with the exception of Shabbat, Muki and I are in the habit of eating gourmet salads for dinner almost every night. We like to mix it up–Israeli salad frequents our table (with a his and hers dressing based in yogurt and olive oil respectively), sometimes we have salad with grilled chicken, other times salad with feta. Even olives, sun dried tomatoes, and pepperocinis have made guest appearances on beds of lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes.

Since each of us has our own dietary guidelines we like to follow, fresh salad is compromise that is always healthy, and always tasty.

Tonight, however, salad just wasn’t going to cut it.

At about 4 o’ clock this afternoon, my mid afternoon energy slump was disrupted by an energized Muki. He was in a mood to cook, and I was informed that my plea to snooze wasn’t going to be entertained by the jury at this time. Deciding my veto power needed to make an appearance as well, I mercilessly shot down ideas for salad mit fisch and salad mit huehnchen. I desperately wanted a curry.

Being stubborn and unyielding, we decided to settle our quarrels wait for the other person to back down over a mango. Suddenly, inspired by the tastiness of our favorite fruit, Muki thought up the idea for mango chicken. I added some ideas of my own (like ginger, and coconut milk) to satisfy my curry craving, and suddenly the jury had an reached a unanimous conclusion.

Together, we wrote down our first original recipe in our little black book, jumped on our bicycles (I’m proud to say I am much improved!), and rode to the store to buy our items. I’ll let some pictures do the talking, but in case your eyes deceive you , it was **delicious. I’ll leave you with the recipe at the bottom.

Hope all is well!

Muki…multitasking?

Ok, so I did take a picture of just the food but it was blurry. I won’t complain about the German boy in the background though.

Muki and Talia’s “Pollo de la Koko y Mango”

3/4th can coconut milk

1 Mango

1″ piece of ginger

Scallions

Red chili/curry paste

Cumin

Soy sauce

Pepper

Chicken

Red pepper

Brown basmati rice

Put desired amount of rice to cook in a pot or rice cooker. In the meantime, peel the mango and the ginger, cube and put in blender with coconut milk. Give it a good whirl, and add some water to desired consistency. Add a handful of chopped scallions, a small dash of soy sauce, a spoonful (or more or less, depending on your spice tolerance) of red curry sauce, and a dash of cumin, and whirl again until completely blended. Cook chicken and diced red pepper in a pan with a little olive oil. Heat curry sauce in a seperate pot. Serve chicken and peppers on a bed of rice and drizzle with mango curry. Then send us a comment thanking us for our brilliance  enjoy!! :)

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