Curried Chicken and Vegetables and Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Since it is Curried Chicken Day according to my Foodie Friend I thought I'd share one of my favorite comfort food Chicken recipes from this Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook.  This is my copy and I also have another copy that was handed down to me from my Mother, which has some of the duplicate recipes that they tried to improve on or tweaked a bit. Sometimes I get confused which recipes I use from which book, more on that later. 

I love to make this recipe when the mercury drops and the curry and spices smell up the whole house while it roasts....

***********************Curried Chicken and Vegetables*******************

Ingredients:

1/2 cup of honey

1/4 cup of prepared mustard {I like Grey Poupon}

1/4 cup butter or margarine

2 tablespoons of finely chopped onion

2 tablespoons water

1 clove of garlic

2 teaspoons of curry powder

1 teaspoon of salt

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1  2 1/2 to 3 lb. broiler-fryer chicken

cooking oil or butter

2 large potatoes, peeled and quartered, or 8 new potatoes {Mr. Incredibles' favorite}

6 medium carrots, bias sliced into 1/2 pieces

2 medium apples, cored and cut into wedges

What to do:

1.} Preheat oven to 375 degrees

2.} In small saucepan combine the first ten ingredients.  Bring to  a boil, stirring constantly.  Remove from heat, set aside.

3.} Rinse chicken and pat dry with paper towel, skewer neck skin to back. Tie legs to tail, twist wing tips under back.  Place chicken, breast-side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.  Brush skin with cooking oil or melted butter.  During roasting, remove excess fat.  Insert a meat thermomoter, roast chicken uncovered in oven for 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours.

4}Meanwhile in a covered saucepan cook potatoes and carrots in boiling salted water for 20-25 minutes or until nearly tender, drain.  the last 20 minutes of roasting time, discard any fat in roasting pan from chicken.  Arrange vegetables and the uncooked apples around poultry in pan.  Spoon honey mixture over chicken, veggies and apples.  Roast 20 minutes longer or until meat thermomoter registers 185 degrees.  Baste occasionally with honey mixture during roasting and again just before serving. Arrange chicken, vegetables and apples on serving platter. Serves 6.

I like to serve it with some rolls, perhaps a salad and Pineapple Up-side Down cake. 

Mr. Incredible is not that fond of pineapple so I don't make this recipe very often but I love pineapple.  So recently at a "girls night out" I made it but I encountered a problem.  Like I said before I have two Better, Homes and Gardens' cook books.  One old {my mothers and one new, mine}  I used the newer recipe book and it called for 2 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder, which I thought was odd but went ahead and put that amount in.  Well it turned out very bitter.  Not like the cake I have tasted and made in the past.  Well, darn it the recipe that is the good Pineapple upside down cake came from my Mom's cookbook not mine.  Here is the good one...

Ingredients:

1 8 1/2 oz. can of sliced pineapple

3 tablespoons of butter

1/2 cup brown sugar

7 marachino cheeries

1/3 cup shortening

1/2 cup sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup sifted all-purpose flour

1 1/4 teaspoon of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

Directions:

1} Preheat over to 350 degrees

2} Drain pineapple, reserving syrup. Melt butter into 8 inch round pan.  Add brown sugar and 1 tablespoon of the reserved pineapple juice.  Add water to remaining juice to make 1/2 cup. Arrange pineapple slices in bottom of pan and place cherries into center of pineapple hole.

3} Cream together shortening and sugar until light.  Add egg and vanilla; beat till fluffy. Sift together dry ingredients; add alternately with the 1/2 cup reserved pineapple juice, beating after each addition.

4} Spread over pineapples and cherries.  Bake at 350 degrees for 40 0r 45 minutes.  Cool for about 5 minutes; invert on serving platter. Serve warm.

Hope you will enjoy these recipes with the ones you love....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Sandy B]

My mouth is watering! I'm going to try this recipe this week; I just got 2 broiler chickens on sale. Perfect timing!