Fakeaway healthy chinese Chicken and Mushroom Curry recipe (with Quorn option)

A favourite at the Chinese takeaway, this healthy Chinese chicken and mushroom curry recipe is also rather tasty. It’s a great way of having your favourite Chinese meal at home without all the calories! Easy to make and well worth giving a go!

Why fakeaways are great for weight loss

Instead of ordering a takeaway, it is so much healthier to make your own version without the oil and fats of a takeaway.

Not only that but you are also less likely to have all the extras like naan bread or prawn crackers that you might have ordered from the takeaway!

If you follow Slimming World, Weight Watchers (WW), Noom or any other weight loss plan you can usually count the ingredients within this recipe in your allowances.

It is of course important to check any plan you follow and remember all nutritional information and ingredients are found in the recipe card below.

Step by step instructions

Get all your ingredients ready so you know you have all you need!

Stir fry the Chicken or Quorn pieces until completely cooked. For the lowest calories use low-calorie cooking spray, if you are happy to use a few calories then olive oil is perfect.

Add the red onion, Mushrooms, Peas, Medium Curry Powder and stir well.

Add stock pot and boiling water

Bring to a boil and simmer until the mushrooms and onions are tender.

Remove from heat then stir in the natural yoghurt to thicken the curry sauce.

Sprinkle over chopped fresh coriander to serve – not essential but looks nice!

I prefer this recipe with boiled rice but you could have it with egg fried rice, salt and pepper chips or whatever takes your fancy!

Using frozen chicken

Chicken for this fakeaway Chinese mushroom curry or any other chicken recipes should never be cooked from frozen.

There are so many issues with this that risk food poisoning. If you have just realised that you only have frozen chicken then I have lots of tips to safely defrost it for your chicken curry.

Check them out in my defrosting chicken guide.

Making this healthy Chinese chicken and mushroom curry with Quorn

It is really easy to adapt this recipe to use Quorn, as a vegetarian myself I do it often. It is always worth remembering that Quorn takes less time to cook when substituting it for chicken.

Check out my selection of Quorn recipes, all perfect for all the family whether vegetarian or not, some are vegan too.

More healthy recipes you may enjoy

If you would like alternative recipes to make with chicken then take a look at all my chicken recipes here.

If you found this recipe looking for ways to use lots of mushrooms check out my 21 healthy mushroom recipes and my nutritional information of mushrooms article.

Maybe you don’t fancy this healthy Chinese chicken and mushroom curry but would like another recipe with rice? Check out my huge selection of rice recipes here and check out my tips for cooking the perfect rice!

If you are a curry fan then do check out this post full of curry tips and recipes. Do you like tasty Chinese takeaways? Then why not check out my Chinese fakeaway selection here and create a whole menu full of takeaway alternatives?

Have you ever grown your own mushrooms? This kit is great if you fancy trying it.

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