Monday, April 04, 2011

Coconut Turkey on Rice

I just love when this happens! My friend went to Bali recently and brought me some saffron! I could hardly wait to try it, but I didn't have time to go shopping, so I poked my head in my freezer and found a half a can of coconut milk and a turkey breast fillet. I also happened to have a small butternut squash kicking around.

So I peeled and diced half of the squash and put it in a hot pan with a little canola oil. Then I grated some fresh ginger on top. Squash is hard it it takes a while to cook. I don't know how long, but I let it hang out on medium heat until I figured it was about half cooked.
Then I cut up the turkey fillet and threw that in and let it all cook slowly together until it was mostly cooked.

Then I threw in half a roma tomato, the coconut milk, about half a cup of milk, a pinch of saffron and some salt.
I let it come up to temperature and served it over some curried rice that I found in the back of the fridge.

It was tremendous!
This is really fast and versatile. You could probably use green beans, asparagus or zucchini and for the turkey you could use chicken or shrimp. And if your friend didn't bring you some saffron from Bali, a pinch of curry powder would work really well too.
Try it and let me know how it turns out!

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