Menu of the week

Today I did something I typically do on Sundays, which is make a whole lot of food to last us through the week. The big batches this week consist of curry chicken and kafta with potatoes. 

I don't ever follow recipes, so I'm don't ever know the amounts of things I use, but I'll provide almost-recipes for the curious ones!

Curry Chicken

Onions

Oil

Curry powder

Dried cranberries

Chicken breasts

Chicken bouillon

Milk

Flour

Apples

Salt & Pepper

Stir fry the onions in oil and add the curry powder and the dried cranberries, when the onions get soft, add the diced chicken pieces. When everything looks golden, add the bouillon and apple pieces. Let it cook for a while. Last step, to get the creamy sauce without using any cream, is to mix the milk with some flower and add it to the stew, let it boil up and then take it down to a simmer for a minute, and voila -- it's done!

Kafta with potatoes

Potatoes

Ground beef

Onions

Parsley

Diced tomatoes

Salt, pepper, allspice, cinnamon

Cut the potatoes in coins and place them in a non-sticky form so that they cover the bottom, I usually put a couple of levels of potatoes. 

Mix ground beef, small cut onions and parsley, and the spices in a bowl. Make little sausage-like things from the mix and place on top of the potatoes. Then cover it all with dices tomatoes. Put the form in the oven until the potatoes get soft. And done! Big disclaimer: this is probably not how they do it in Lebanon, because it seems way too easy, their food must for some reason be more complicated... :) but I like this dish the way I make it, and it's super easy since most of the work is done in the oven anyway.