If you like Chicken and if you eat Chinese take out, you would have certainly tried ‘Kung pao’ chicken. Kung Pao chicken is a fiery chicken stir fry dish with peanuts which has red chillies for the heat. Just like any other chinese take-out it tastes great while piping hot and when you are really hungry ‘and not in the mood to cook’ 🙂 Usually hubby dear’s chicken curry is what we crave for and he usually appeases us by cooking his ‘special chicken curry’ every weekend. That reminds me that I need to note down his recipe next time he cooks it so I can post it! Anyways, because of hubby’s chicken curry being so tasty, I only rarely get a chance to cook chicken curry. But whenever I do end up making it, I always want to try something new. I absolutely love chicken in any form and since chicken lends itself to so many options, I am always inclined to try different things with it. Mostly I try changing the blend of spices a little bit etc. just so we end up with slightly different flavors in the chicken curry each time. This past week when I got a turn to make chicken curry, suddenly from nowhere ‘Kung pao chicken’ came to mind! Hmm…Red Chillies, Peanuts! Wow! I thought how about I incorporate both into the curry for a red hot chicken curry! My mouth started watering just thinking about it so i absolutely needed to give it a try! And as expected you could never go wrong with chicken curry anyway you cooked it but especially not when you grind red chillies and peanuts into a paste and incorporate into the curry! Finger licking spicy and delicious! YUM YUM just YUM! I am bringing this fiery Chicken curry to Fiesta Friday this week. Be sure to check all the wonderful recipes there! 
Umm, I love anything with peanuts’ taste! Must try your recipe 🙂
yes the peanuts does give it a lot of flavor. I hope you get to try it! thanks for stopping by:)
This one is a keeper. Yum!
Yes Fae this turned out quite delicious!
We love chicken curry in our house too, and this sounds a tasty variation on the theme. As you say, can’t go wrong with peanuts and chili in there.
It really is tough to go wrong with a chicken curry, isn’t it? This looks absolutely delicious. I love trying out new curry dishes as well, so I might have to give this a go the next time I see some Kashmiri chilies.
Yes you can never go wrong with chicken curry! Give me that any day! Yeah you could try it with any dry red chill however to keep it mild and get a good color, Kashmiri is the way to go! thanks for stopping by! 🙂
Thanks for the advice 🙂
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Use only Kosher Chicken.
Looks delicious, I have always wanted to try a peanut-based curry at home…will book mark this for winter 🙂
yes do try it! We loved it! 🙂
So cute how you take turns to impress each other with chicken curry! It can be such an interesting and inventive thing to play around with.
thanks! yes indeed we both love to try new things and impress each other! And chicken is easy to do experiments with – you can never go wrong! 🙂
This dish looks soooo tasty and colorful!
thanks Johanne! Yes it is indeed colorful and very flavorful too! I used Kashmiri red chillies and hence the vibrant color. But Kashmiri chillies are milder than other dry red chillies and hence this curry is not as hot as it looks! 🙂
Nice…I think my husband would be liking that too 🙂
Hi Elaine! Yes I am sure he will like it! He is so lucky that you will cook chicken for him even though you are a vegetarian 🙂
🙂 I cook meat for them everyday, I don’t impose my food choices on my boys 🙂 x
You are a darling! 🙂
Thank you 🙂 I’m just a Mum and wife 🙂 x
Looks so appetising…
thanks Lina yes this turned out very tasty! And it wasn’t too spicy either. Even the kids loved it too.