Flygande Jacob (Flying Jacob)

"An 'oddball' recipe of Swedish origin that I've adapted slightly. The dish was invented by Ove Jacobsson who worked in the air freight industry, hence the name. The recipe was first published in Allt om mat in 1976."
 
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Ready In:
27mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
4
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ingredients

  • 4 chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
  • 6 ounces bacon, diced
  • 12 cup finely-chopped onion
  • 1 12 cups heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 2 tablespoons sweet chili sauce (or a hot and spicy ketchup)
  • 1 chicken stock cube
  • salt and pepper, to taste
  • 2 sliced bananas
  • 12 cup chopped dry roasted peanuts
  • To serve

  • cooked rice
  • oil (for frying)
  • rice
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directions

  • Cook the chicken together with the bacon and onion until the chicken is no longer translucent and beginning to brown (about 10-12 minutes); drain off any excess fat and add the cream; bring to a boil.
  • Reduce heat to a simmer; add curry powder, chili sauce, stock cube and salt and pepper to taste (careful - the stock cube will add salt, too). Gently stir in the sliced bananas and simmer for 5 minutes.
  • Sprinkle over the peanuts and serve over rice.

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Reviews

  1. I modified this a tad.. well I just left out the chicken and bacon. I don't like chicken and I didn't feel like doing bacon. Anyway, the taste was horrible. Absolutely disgusting and I am one to try new foods and love curry.
     
  2. Tasty! I didn't have cream, but a can of cream of chicken soup and milk worked well in a pinch.
     
  3. Totally unorthodox as curries go, but amazingly tasty as is, in all it's oddness with chicken, bacon, hot ketchup, banana and peanuts. So very Swedish!
     
  4. Wow, loved this, the only thing I didnt put in was the bananas, because I don't like them, I can imagine it would be good though. Thank you, Evelyn, a real keeper, this recipe was made for ZWT9, Hot Pink Panthers On The Prowl.
     
  5. This was an interesting curry. I really enjoyed the bacon, which I normally wouldn't put in a curry. For ZWT9
     
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<style>body { background: url("http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3639/3512121819_f2f1aaf050.jpg?v=0"); background-repeat: repeat-y; }</style> OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages! I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure. So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call. What did I do wrong? Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths. I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time. That's all for now.
 
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