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chicken curry

chicken curry

3 1.3
A dish of chicken cooked in a spicy sauce often served with rice
  • noun
  • /ˈtʃɪkɪn ˈkɜri/
translation icon : pollo al curry
  • On cold nights, nothing warms me up like a bowl of chicken curry with rice.
  • chicken curry with potatoes
  • cooked chicken curry
  • green chicken curry

So a Chinese chicken Curry for me is up there, and Jack's going to know how much I appreciate this type of food.

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Examples

  • I get the theory, but I like them; so do my kids; I don't complain when my 5-year-old devours a chickpea, pear, and beetroot salad, or when he likes homemade daal with his chicken curry.

    Blog text (6)

  • My grandmother's recipe for chicken curry includes coconut milk for a creamy texture.

  • Give ya a massage and then cook you a nice green chicken curry afterwards

    The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)

  • Besides, his wife's chicken curry is his favorite.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I order chicken, chicken Curry and some salmon and avocado.

  • Tuesday we're having chicken Curry, Wednesday, veggie shepherd's pie.

  • The second night, Clem cooked me some chicken curry and played me some songs he'd written on his guitar.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • The wives cooked chicken curry, roti (bread), and other Punjabi dishes, and dinner guests were frequent.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Tamil dishes like dosai, idli, vadai, rasam, and the chicken curry of Chettinad seemed like the very staple of life.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • For dinner, I cooked a delicious chicken curry with fragrant spices and tender meat.

Synonyms

curry
vschicken curry
117 1.4

A spicy dish of meat or vegetables cooked in a thick sauce served with rice

focuses on one specific meat ingredient rather than various meats or vegetables
vindaloo
vschicken curry
2 4.8

A very spicy Indian curry with meat, potatoes, and hot sauce

is less defined by extreme heat and additional ingredients than by its main meat
spicy curry
vschicken curry
1 2.1

A meal made with many strong spices that makes your mouth feel hot

is made with a particular meat ingredient rather than defined by heat level
balti
vschicken curry
  • UK
6.5

A curry cooked and served in a small metal pot

focuses on a single meat ingredient rather than cooking or serving method

How Spicy

vindaloo
2 4.8
chicken curry
3 1.3
korma
2 4.5

Surface Forms

chicken curry singular
chicken curries plural

Morphology

chicken + curry

The phrase is compositionally transparent: 'chicken' (the meat) combined with 'curry' (a spiced stew/sauce) directly yields a dish of chicken prepared in curry. This noun+noun food naming pattern is common cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'curry de pollo', French 'curry de poulet') and would be immediately understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Chicken curry is a simple, literal name: tender chicken cooked in a spiced sauce called curry, a way of cooking that came from South Asia. That's why the phrase means 'a dish of chicken with curry spices'.