Chicken fillets with apricots

Chicken fillets with apricots

Shopping, serves 4: 2 leeks, 1 small red pepper, a tin of apricots, 2 large chicken breasts, butter, a small pack of cream, flour, a chicken stock cube, pitted black olives, curry, sambal, milk, flaked almonds or crush them yourself, vermicelli or rice.

Method: cut the chicken into small flat pieces and brown them with some pepper, salt and spices, about 8 minutes. Wash the leeks, the olives and the pepper and cut them into rings and pieces. Briefly cook the leeks over boiling water. Take the apricots out of the tin and halve them, keep the juice!. Make a roux with butter, flour and milk, add the curry and the stock cube, and then the apricot juice as needed. Make it a little spicier with sambal if you like.

Distribute the vegetables and the meat in a buttered dish. Pour the curry sauce over it and top with the flaked almonds. 35-40 minutes in an oven at 180 degrees. Serve with rice or vermicelli of your choice.