Mom's West Indies Curried Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

12 chicken thighs (cut into small pieces (slightly larger than your  thumb)
10 large carrots (roughly same volume as chicken)
10 small red potatoes (roughly same volume as chicken)
1 celery stalk (large slices)
1 large onion (chunky slices)
5-6 tbsp Chief Brand curry powder (from Trinidad)
3 garlic
3 slices of ginger
3 cans of coconut milk
2 tbsp yellow sugar
1 tsp salt (use less at first)
pepper to taste

Directions:

Cut up chicken into smaller pieces, deboned, but left with skin. Cut up carrots and celery into decent sized pieces. The celery will cook faster so it is okay to make them larger if you like. Peel the potatoes and cut into small pieces the size of your thumb. Peel the onion and slice. I like good size chunks.

Fry up each of the vegetables in oil on high heat to seal in the juices. This gives them lots of flavour otherwise if you were to add them into the stewing pot raw, it wouldn't taste as flavourful. Make sure to stir often. You don't want to fully cook the vegetables, particularly the potatoes as they will cook some more in the stew.

Add oil to frying pan and fry garlic. Next add the chicken. All of this on high heat. Add ginger and curry powder to cook with the chicken. It's okay to undercook them as they will cook some more in the stew. You want to seal in all the juices. Add salt and pepper.
 
Now combine all the vegetables together with the chicken and cook a bit more before adding in the coconut milk with the yellow sugar. You may want to add chicken broth powder for greater flavour.

Let simmer on medium heat. Stir occasionally. Remove from heat once the potatoes are soft. Serve with rice.

NB: You can get the Chief Brand curry product from a jamaican grocery store in Bridgeland at the bottom of the hill of Edmonton trail. There's a gas station there. They also sell other brands, but I haven't tried those yet. There's also a Hot & Spicy Chief curry powder that's for goat and duck. You can try this as a substitute. No guarantees on flavours though.