Joe, we enjoyed your Lemon Curry Chicken with Mango-Basmati Rice Salad. Thanks

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for posting the recipe. I used all thighs and found the chicken to be equally good cold the next day.

Lemon Curry Chicken with Mango-Basmati Rice Salad

Lemon Curry Chicken:

1 (3-1/2 to 4 lb.) chicken, cut into 10 pieces

2 cups plain yogurt

2 tbsp curry powder

Grated zest and juice of 1 lemon

1 tbsp toasted sesame oil

Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat oven to 400°F. Stir together the yogurt, curry powder, lemon zest and juice, sesame oil, and salt and pepper is a big bowl. Add the chicken and toss gently to coat with the yogurt marinade. Put the chicken on a baking sheet and roast, using the remaining marinade to baste twice as it cooks, until chicken is tender and cooked through, about 45 minutes total. Mound the rice salad on a platter. Arrange the chicken on top.

Mango-Basmati Rice Salad:

1 cup basmati rice

1-inch piece of ginger, peeled and smashed with the flat side of a large knife

Kosher salt

1/2 lb. tender green beans, trimmed

1/2 small red onion

1/4 cup cashews

1/4 cup fresh mint leaves

1 fresh mango, peeled, pitted and chopped

2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

Juice of 1/2 lemon

Freshly ground black pepper

Put the rice in a saucepan with the ginger, 2 cups of water, and 1-1/2 tsp salt and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Give the rice a stir, turn the heat down to low, cover, and cook for 12 minutes without lifting the lid. Spread the cooked rice out on a baking sheet and let it cool to room temperature. Discard the ginger.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil for the beans. Fill a large bowl with ice water and add enough salt to make it taste lightly salted. Add the beans to the boiling water and cook until just tender, about 3 minutes. Drain, then refresh in the ice water bath to keep the bright green color, and drain well again. Cut the beans in half crosswise on the diagonal.

Put the onion half, cashews and mint on a cutting board and coarsely chop them all up. Combine the rice and green beans in a big bowl and add the chopped onion mixture. Add the chopped mango, olive oil and lemon juice and toss gently. Taste for seasoning.

Serves 4

Source: Joe, from Tyler’s Ultimate by Tyler Florence

Joe: This was superb last night for an easy dinner party. It was good cold for lunch, so I plan to use it for some box lunches I've been asked to make next weekend. I was prepping ahead so the chicken sat in the yogurt marinade for a couple hours in the fridge--it certainly didn't hurt it.

Brooksie: Joe, I made Lemon Curry Chicken With Mango-Basmati Rice salad. Incredible!!!! Thanks for posting.

Joe: It's such a wonderful example of the whole being greater that the sum of its parts. I'm so glad you found it as incredible as I did. Seriously, I did a multiple recipe thinking I'd have a lot of leftovers to test for a cold version I was planning later. I almost had a mutiny on my hands and had to put out all but one thigh and a spoonful of rice to the hungry mob.

Brooksie: Had it cold the next day for lunch OMG . Used thighs only cuz that was all I had on hand. YUM

Traca: Joe, SMOOCHES! Tyler's Lemon Curry Chicken was a knock out! Tried this out on company, who I met for the very first time. OMG! So good. A couple tweaks:

- I used 4# chicken thighs

- For the rice salad, I used regular rice. The mango I had wasn't good, so we skipped it.

It was absolutely perfect! And that rice salad? Yowza! How good was that? I'm astonished. Thank you, Joe!

Barb-b: Very good. I marinated the chicken all day, very tender. Served over plain white rice. (did not have mango etc; and ran out of time) Thanks for posting the recipe.

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