Gluten Free Harissa Spiced Chicken Curry

This is last nights dinner, we love curry on a Friday night, with a nice bottle of wine, and a gory CBB eviction. It's very easy, I made it in a big oven proof casserole pot, but you can make it in a saucepan if you don't have one. This recipe makes a big pot of curry, for two greedy people, to increase it just bung in more tomatoes and chicken. You can adjust the heat by adding less of the paste, and if its not right just bung a bit more in later.

• free range chicken breasts or thigh meat, enough for 2 people
• tinned chopped tomatoes 1 tin
• kallo GF chicken stock cube 1, made up as per instructions (use water if casein free)
  
• garlic cloves 2, chopped
• ginger 1" piece, grated
• onions 3 small, chopped
• belazu rose harissa 1/2 to 1/4 of a small pot*
• red pepper 1, sliced
• yellow pepper 1, sliced
• basmati rice 1 cup
• natural yogurt to serve
• limes 2, to serve

Gently fry your onions till soft in a large pan or oven proof casserole dish, add the garlic and ginger and soften this for a couple of minutes, then add in your harissa paste, fry gently for a extra couple of minutes to bring out the flavours in the spices. Add your chicken and cook till white and sealed, bung in the peppers, tomatoes, chicken stock. Cook for 1 hour covered in the oven 170C/fan 150C/gas 5, or on a very low heat on the hob. If it looks too watery after 1 hour, and you want a thicker sauce, cook for an additional 30 minutes uncovered to reduce. You can cook it quicker than this on a higher heat, but a long cooking makes for more rounded and comforting flavours.

Serve with fluffy basmati rice, a blob of yogurt and lime cheeks. A sprinkling of coriander is nice if you have some.

* The best harissa paste is by Belazu, in fact I wouldn't use any other, as others don't taste of anything more than chopped chillies. From the ingredients it appears GF, no info on the website though. This Xmas we had a dinner party and I rubbed a whole tub of it, mixed with honey and lemon juice, over a massive turkey, it was amazing. I also love the pickled lemons by Belazu, but the husband doesn't like those much.