{"id":3234,"date":"2016-02-21T07:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T05:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2016-02-21T07:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T05:49:34","slug":"chicken-dhansak-curry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Dhansak Curry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had some chicken fillets and my dietician told me I should eat lentils so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/food\/recipes\/chicken_dhansak_curry_98040\">google to the rescue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recipe-title--small-spacing\">\n<h1 class=\"content-title__text\">Chicken dhansak curry<\/h1>\n<p>Fry two finely chopped onions in a bit of oil, add chicken and fry for a few minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Add 2 cloves crushed garlic, 20 grams ginger (I realised I only had pickled ginger left over from experiments in sushi, that worked fine), 2 teaspoons garam masala, and 1\/2 a teaspoon chili powder (I used flakes).<\/p>\n<p>Fry this for a bit then add a tin of tomatoes and some stock, and 100g lentils. Add two bay leaves (I get mine from my brother&#8217;s tree in Bellville) and cook for 3\/4 of an hour.<\/p>\n<p>I also added a quarter butternut, cubed, 15 minutes before serving. Serve with rice (dietician says I can eat Basmati, I&#8217;ve been avoiding rice for a while so this is a bonus).<\/p>\n<p>Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanhut.com\/product.asp?id=136\">hot chutney<\/a> and yum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:489,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/food\\\/recipes\\\/chicken_dhansak_curry_98040&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251203034107\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.co.uk\\\/food\\\/recipes\\\/chicken_dhansak_curry_98040&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 20:56:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-09 01:17:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-13 12:56:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 07:13:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 07:13:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:490,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.africanhut.com\\\/product.asp?id=136&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180702150742\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.africanhut.com:80\\\/product.asp?id=136&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-30 20:56:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-09 19:21:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 07:14:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-19 07:14:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had some chicken fillets and my dietician told me I should eat lentils so google to the rescue. Chicken dhansak curry Fry two finely chopped onions in a bit of oil, add chicken and fry for a few minutes. Add 2 cloves crushed garlic, 20 grams ginger (I realised I only had pickled ginger left over from experiments in sushi, that worked fine), 2 teaspoons garam masala, and 1\/2 a teaspoon chili powder (I used flakes). Fry this for a bit then add a tin of tomatoes and some stock, and 100g lentils. Add two bay leaves (I get&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foooooood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3236,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}