4 lb. chicken
2 minced onions
5 tbsp. oil
1/2 minced garlic clove
1 tbsp. flour
3 tbsp. curry powder
2 c. stock
2 tbsp. soy sauce
2 tbsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
2 star anise seeds
1 lb. potatoes, peeled and quartered

Remove bone from chicken. Use bones to make soup stock. Saute onion in 2 tablespoons oil until brown. Heat remaining oil in another pan and fry garlic 1 minute. Add ginger, onion, flour and curry powder. Keep stirring a minute on low heat.

Add chicken and raise heat to moderate heat, stir constantly for 1 minute. Add stock, soy sauce, sugar, salt and anise seeds. Cover pan and simmer 30 minutes. Add potatoes and simmer another 30 minutes.