How long does it take to make Vegetable stew?

Season with turmeric, cinnamon, white pepper and tomato paste, and cook covered over medium heat for about an hour.

50 minTotal

20 minActive time

30 minSetting

#	What to do	How long
1	Heat the olive oil in a wide pan over medium heat	3 min
2	Add the onion and fry 5–8 minutes, stirring now and then	6 min
3	Add the chicken and fry 5 minutes	5 min
4	Add the cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, salt and black pepper and stir	1 min
5	Add the carrot and stock and bring to a boil	5 min
6	Turn down the heat, cover and simmer 20 minutes	20 min
7	Add the zucchini and cook another 10 minutes	10 min

Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
Hard vegetables (carrot, eggplant) go in first, and zucchini only toward the end of cooking: that way they're all tender and none fall apart.

A gentle simmer, not a boil: a hard boil dries the food out and clouds it, a slow simmer cooks it evenly.

Fry onion, lightly brown the chicken, add vegetables in large cubes and water to about two centimeters above them.
Curry with paste: soften onion in oil, add garlic and ginger for half a minute and the curry paste (2 tablespoons per 400 ml coconut milk), then the coconut milk; bring to a boil and cook covered about 10 minutes.
Curry with powder: brown onion, add garlic, ginger and spices (a tablespoon of curry powder can replace them), then coconut cream and a little water; chicken cubes cook in it about 5 minutes.