Vadouvan chicken curry with smoked basmati rice

Chicken second courses Indian cuisine

For a quick and flavorful weeknight dinner, this unique yellow curry is just the ticket: creamy and coconutty and packed with bold, balanced flavor on top of a bed of smoked basmati rice. It's a well-rounded, ultra-satisfying meal. What's more, it's ready in no time, and makes for some amazing leftovers. The recipe you see here is certainly not what we started with; changing, evolving and improving each and every time we made it. After first discovering the brilliance that is Vadouvan (I believe it was a magazine recipe that first mentioned this new-to-us spice blend), we whipped up a deliciously simple coconut curry with little more than chicken and onions. Flavorful, sure, and we definitely made note of its potential, but it was, frankly, lacking in the substance department. We tried adding sautéed spinach, cauliflower florets, and even tofu to give the dish more oomph and substance. This most recent version, our favorite by far, adds tomato and okra. As it turns out, the hint of