Basic Durban Chicken Curry Recipe: Making the simple chicken curry recipe we cook every week

Chicken curry and rice or chicken bunny chows call for a good chicken curry - almost a staple in most Durban households on a weekly basis because chicken is widely available and widely loved. This is the basic recipe I use in making chicken curry every week almost.

Ingredients
1.5kg frozen or fresh chicken
Marinated with
1 tsp chicken spice
1 tsp crushed ginger garlic
1 tsp lemon juice

1/2 cup oil
1 onion finely sliced
1 small tomato, grated
2 small potatoes, quartered
1 cup frozen peas
1 curry spoon mixed masala with curry leaf
1 tsp hurdee (tumeric)
Handful fresh thyme
1 tsp fine salt
Garnish with spring onion and dhania

Alternate to mixed masala
2 tbs chillie powder
1 tsp hurdee
1 tsp dhania powder
1 tsp jeera powder
1 tsp garam masala

Served with rice and salad, or with dhal and rice or in bunny chow.