Help---too much curry!

[emma'smom]

So I just made chicken salad for a picnic tomorrow night. It is a curry chicken salad and I accidentally misread the recipe and put THREE tablespoons of curry instead of 1. I guess I need to wear my glasses while cooking.

Anyway, once I got it all mixed up, I tasted it....and the curry flavor is really intense. It is actually quite tasty....just too intense. Any hints on how to mellow it out?

It is a huge batch of salad....so I don't want to throw it out and waste all of that money that I spent on good chicken breasts (and time spent cooking). There must be something I can do...

 

[ktdaiwik]

You could try maybe a little lemon juice and maybe some mayo.Curry is such a hard thing to mellow out,but i totally understand not wanting to waste a good salad.
hoping that idea helps somewhat.

 

[sha_lyn]

I would make another batch without the curry and mix the 2 together

 

[EnchantedPrincess]

Does the recipe calls for yogurt? If it does, you can probably add more yogurt to mellow out the curry powder.

 

[disykat]

With that much extra, I'd make another batch to dilute the curry. I don't know what your recipe is, but I have a good recipe that is curried chicken salad with rice added. If you don't want to buy more chicken (I wouldn't!) you could add a couple of cups of cooked rice and some more mayo. Obviously my salad isn't made for sandwiches though. It's served on a lettuce leaf.

 

[fenfur]

Mmmmm these sound yummy, could anyone PM me their chicken curry recipes, thanks!

 

[emma'smom]

Here is the recipe I am using:

1 cup chopped, cooked chicken
3 hard cooked eggs, finely chopped
3 tbsp mango chutney, chopped
4 oz cream cheese, softened
2 tbsp mayonnaise or salad dressing
1 tbsp Worcestershire (or to taste)
1 tbsp curry powder (or to taste)
Dash cayenne
Salt and black pepper, to taste

I've skipped the eggs (just don't like them in my salads)....you can see where I looked at the chutney measurements when I had the curry powder in my hands.

I'm off to see if a little more mayo will work.... otherwise, off to the store for more chicken breasts. If I have to combine it with a new batch...wow...

That's a whole lot of chicken salad!

but right now.... That's a whole lot of curry!

 

[sha_lyn]

OK...I'm a little confused. The recipe you posted only calls for 1 cup of chicken.
I was imagining you had made a huge recipes or something. For some reason I thought you were taking this to a pot luck picnic or something, not jsut fixing a meal for your family

 

[ZPT1022]

I'd add plain yogurt- that's what we do for spicy recipes for either the kids portions or sometimes for mine. DH likes things spicy but I have GERD & Barrett's esophagus and can't really handle it

 

[emma'smom]

Yes...well, I'm not that great a cook in the first place---so varying from the actually recipe was my first mistake. I used about 10 chicken breasts (shredded in my food processor)...added extra celery and onions. I figured since I was leaving out the eggs and mango, I would include more chicken. I have ended up with a pretty big bowl (I'm spreading it on french bread slices--so this it will yield a lot of finger-food size portions for the pot-luck picnic we're going to).

OK...I'm a little confused. The recipe you posted only calls for 1 cup of chicken.
I was imagining you had made a huge recipes or something. For some reason I thought you were taking this to a pot luck picnic or something, not jsut fixing a meal for your family

P.S. FWIW, this isn't the only dish were taking. I'm also taking 7 layer taco dip, hotdogs, and a cherry pie (which actually did come out pretty well considering I made it from scratch---and, well, my cooking skills are pretty lax.)

 

[sha_lyn]

how many cups of chicken did you end up with. the 10 breast should = about 4-5 cups.
did you end up increasing the amount of cream cheese?

So you added only 3Tbs curry powder to the entire dish?
Must be really storng curry powder then.

I would add more cream cheese or as others have suggested, some yogurt

 

[emma'smom]

OK guys....thanks for all of the advice.

I ended up folding sour cream into the salad (it is what I had...and I figured that sometimes recipes call for plain yogurt or sour cream)...and it seemed to do the trick. They ate it up! Two big trays of french bread (sliced into thin slices and spread with the curry chicken) all gobbled up within the first hour.

I even received a few complements and thought "if you only knew".

P.S. They liked the pie too....

 

[sha_lyn]

I even received a few complements and thought "if you only knew".

LOL I had a similar thing happen to me today. I baked bread for tonights Lammas ritual. Used a recipe I hadn't used before. Had bought instant yeast instead of rapid yeast but used the amounts called for if using rapid rise. After the first rising I kneaded it and braided it. Had a heck of a time getting it to braid without the ropes breaking (it had lot of seeds and whole grains in it)
Got really tired last night and wasn't going to have time to let it rise the 2nd time before going to bed. brushed it with oil covered it and put it in the frig but the top still got really dry. the I had to hurry it up and put it in too warm of an oven.

So anyway baked it and I thought it looked horrible. I got so many comments on how pretty it was and how good it tasted.




Glad you chicken salad was a hit. The pie sounds good too