A Traditional Chicken Curry

A Traditional Chicken Curry

This is a traditional chicken curry. It is different from usual chicken curries. Hope you all will love it :-)

Ingredients

Chicken                                                                                                  1 kg

Grated Coconut                                                                                  1& 1/2 cup

Onion                                                                                                    2 (big)

Tomato                                                                                                  1 (big)

Ginger - Garlic paste                                                                              2 tsp

Coriander leaves                                                                               6-7 strands

Cinnamon                                                                                     2 (small pieces)

Cloves                                                                                                   6-7

Nutmeg                                                                                         2 (small pieces)

Black peppercorns                                                                               7-8

Cumin seeds                                                                                       1 tsp

Star anise                                                                                             2 

Coriander seeds                                                                                 1 tsp

Red Chillies                                                                                         5-6

Khus Khus                                                                                          1 tsp

Oil                                                                                                  As required

Salt                                                                                                   To taste

Preparation

Marinate chicken with ginger-garlic paste and leave it for 1-2 hours.

Heat oil, add all the spices and fry on a low flame with care and see that you dont burn them. 

When a good aroma comes, add 3/4 of the onion (coarsely sliced), saute it well till it turns into brown coclour, not black :-p

Now grind this into a fine paste and keep it aside. They call this paste as "brown paste".

Roast the grated coconut without adding oil till it turns brown and grind it to a fine paste. They call this as "white paste".

Heat oil, add the remaining onion, saute it well and add the marinated chicken to it and fry for sometime.

Add 1/2 cup of water and salt , close the lid and cook the chicken till it becomes tender.

Usually we add the onion paste first but here we are adding the white paste (coconut) to the chicken and cook for a minute.

Add tomatoes sliced into big pieces and chopped coriander leaves.

When it starts boiling, add the brown paste and salt if required more for taste. Cook this for another 5 more minutes.

You can add more spices according to your taste :-)

This chicken gravy will be more tasty with ghee rice, biriyani or fried rice and chappathis more than with white rice.!