Maple Curry Chicken

  4.7 – 22 reviews  • Chicken Breast

A fantastic dessert! In this recipe, figs or dates may be substituted for the orange liqueur, and if you’d like, Marsala wine may be used in its place. Duration of preparation: 15 minutes. This dish comes from The WEBB Cooks, a collection of Robyn Webb’s writings and recipes provided by the American Diabetes Association.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 45 mins
Servings: 4
Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  1. 2 tablespoons butter
  2. 2 tablespoons olive oil
  3. 1 onion, diced
  4. 3 cloves garlic, minced
  5. ½ cup yellow bell pepper, diced
  6. 1 teaspoon white sugar
  7. ¼ cup maple syrup
  8. 2 tablespoons curry paste
  9. 1 ¼ cups chicken broth
  10. ½ cup heavy cream
  11. 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves – cut into bite-size pieces
  12. 3 tablespoons cream cheese

Instructions

  1. Place butter in a large skillet. Pour in olive oil and heat over medium-high heat. Add the onion, garlic, and yellow pepper to the skillet. Cook and stir until the onion and peppers are soft.
  2. Sprinkle sugar over onion mixture and cook one minute. Pour in maple syrup and cook another minute. Add curry paste and cook another minute. Pour in chicken broth and cream. Bring to a slow boil, then simmer on medium-low heat for 15 minutes.
  3. Meanwhile, in a separate pan, cook the chicken over medium heat until cooked through on all sides, about 10 minutes. Stir cooked chicken into the sauce. Simmer five minutes, then add cream cheese. Simmer another 5 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 461 kcal
Carbohydrate 21 g
Cholesterol 136 mg
Dietary Fiber 1 g
Protein 29 g
Saturated Fat 14 g
Sodium 309 mg
Sugars 15 g
Fat 29 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

Reviews

Jonathan Smith
Love the recipe
Christopher Wang
this is the closest I’ve gotten to my favourite restaurant chicken peanut curry. like others, I used sour cream and cornstarch instead of cream cheese. also did curry powder/ketchup instead of the curry paste. husband loved it! he hates my last couple of curry attempts with other recipes.
Seth Davis
Simple and delicious. Many have complimented me on this one and have asked for the recipe. I do like the fact that you can change up a few things (as per other reviews) and still come out with a superb taste. I keep it on my monthly or semi-monthly rotation
Michael Ross
I used coconut milk instead of heavy cream and curry powder instead of curry paste. I used real maple syrup. I did not want to change the flavor with ketchup or anything with tomatoes. Tomatoes would make it more like Chicken Tikka Masala. My kids loved it. My wife said it was good but very sweet. I love the maple flavor and the cream cheese. I will definitely make it again.
Sandra Woodward
Used curry powder, whole yellow pepper, real maple syrup (less sweet), sriracha for heat and added cashews & basmati rice…next time I might include cauliflower. Yummy!
Hailey Barnes
Made it / Loved it….Made it at Firehouse/ Loved it at Firehouse….Repeat….
Pamela Fernandez
I really liked it, especially as left overs, but my boyfriend complained it was way too sweet.
Hector Bailey
I have made this recipe twice now. The second time around I used half the syrup, half and half instead of cream, and added a half teaspoon cayenne pepper to make it a little more spicy. Either way it’s delicious. Thanks to the original chef!
Joseph Cole
Super easy and really good. Made per recipe except I had to sub whole milk for heavy cream and served over rice. Even my picky kid liked it! Thanks, I will make this again!
Shirley Martinez PhD
My whole family love this including my very fussy 3 year old…. I whispered that there is maple syrup in it and his face lit up. I like to add carrots, sweet potato and some spinach for some veg. and didn’t wait to cook the ingredients just threw them all together!
Danny Miller
This was good. It definitely had a lot of flavor, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call it “Maple” curry chicken. The maple flavor is really lost and really just acts as a sweetner. Heavy cream could probably be substituted for coconut milk. It’s not stated in the recipe, but if you use curry paste, I recommend using red curry paste. I think if the maple flavor could have been more prominent it would have really stood out as a unique curry. However, it really was just like any other curry.
Matthew Alvarado
really wonderful recipe. I have been looking for something like this for awhile. I added 1 more tbls of the curry paste for more heat.
Sarah Lee
This was awesome. My whole family loved it. I have been looking for a recipe since trying it at a local restaurant. I replaced the cream with evaporated milk and some corn starch to thicken; cut back on the butter and oil and used light cream cheese. I also did not have paste so just used the curry powder. Even with all these changes, it was really very tasty. I served it on penne noodles with stir fried veggies ( the kids told me they wanted me to make it again. ) Thanks for the recipe!
Kimberly Dyer
A little on the sweet side for my taste, but my kids absolutely adored it; they practically licked their bowls clean. I served over brown rice, and next time will include additional veggies (squash, celery, spinach, whatever).
Brian Ramirez
I didn’t have, nor could I find curry paste, so I used ketchup and curry powder to make my own, per a reviewer suggestion. I had no idea the ratio, so I just added what I thought, which I now forgoet, doh! I feel bad rating it though this way…but it was good. The maple syrup lent a very sweet flavor, but I do think the curry should have shown through more than it did. I have to find that curry paste.
Sarah Guerrero
Used entire green pepper. Add more veggies next time.
Jennifer Pruitt
Needs salt and sriracha. Added sweet potato and cut maple syrup in half.
Tonya Estrada
We liked this very much. I used thighs in place of breasts, sour cream in place of cream cheese, and 1T of curry powder in place of paste because that’s what I had on hand. The flavors all blended very well. I could see using coconut milk as well in this dish since it has a Thai flair to it. After cooking the chicken in the sauce (why bother cooking it separately?) I removed it and added about 3-4 cups of cooked brown rice I had left over from another meal to the sauce. Then I cooked them together until the sauce thickened slightly and the rice was heated through. Excellent! Adding this to our favorites list. Thank you!
Jonathan Huang
If you don’t have curry paste you can use curry powder instead plus 3T ketchup of tomato paste. Also you don’t need to add each thing and wait a minute. You can just caramelize the onions and add the dry ingredients, then the wet, then add chicken and cook 10 minutes in the sauce and veggie mixture. The meat will absorb the sauce better if it’s cooked in it. It will come out more tender as well. If you chop the chicken in strips or chunks you can cook it for 10 minutes and it will be perfect.
Timothy Jordan
This is my first curry dish out of more than ten that has actually turned out edible. I didn’t have all the ingredients called for as this was an impromptu attempt to use of chicken. Even without certain ingredients this was still really good. Next time I will be certain to pick up some onion and peppers for this dish. Since I also didn’t have cream cheese, I used a bit of cornstarch to thicken up the sauce.
Christopher Wang
Just right combo of sweet and spicy. I will make this again and again. I used an extra tablespoon of cream cheese as I did not have cream, otherwise made as written.

 

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