Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chettinad chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chettinad Chicken Curry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Chettinad Chicken Curry is something which I have loved my whole life.
Chettinad chicken curry is a very popular recipe from the southern part of India and it very well deserves all the love & care it gets for its unique deliciousness. Chettinad chicken curry is very different from the classic chicken curry and once you try this South-Indian delicacy, you will simply fall in love with it. From Tamil Nadu in Southern India, Chettinad chicken curry has plenty of punch and fire. Serve with rice on the side.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chettinad chicken curry using 25 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chettinad Chicken Curry:
- Get 1 kg Indian desi chicken
- Prepare 300 gm Madras onions, sliced
- Prepare 2 tbsp ghee
- Get 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Make ready To taste Salt
- Get 15 curry leaves
- Get For masala paste
- Make ready 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- Get 1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp black peppercorns
- Prepare 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- Get 5 cloves
- Get 4 green cardamons
- Prepare 2 star anise
- Make ready 1 inch cinnamon bark
- Make ready 2 stone flower (kalpasi/dagad phool)
- Take 5 red chilli (spicy but not colour)
- Take 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1-2 strings of mace
- Make ready 7-8 cashewnuts
- Prepare 10 cloves garlic
- Take 1 inch ginge sliced
- Make ready 1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds
- Take 1 tsp tamarind pulp
- Get 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
Once the oil is warm, add curry leaves, onions, tomato, red chilli powder and turmeric. sauté the following ingredients until the onions and tomatoes turn soft. Cooking this Chettinad chicken curry involves three steps. The first step involves dry-frying the spices and grinding to a paste. The second step involves cooking the marinated chicken with onion, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes.
Instructions to make Chettinad Chicken Curry:
- Firstly clean the chicken. My personal preference is desi chicken but you can use broiler or english chicken. Add half a lemon juice and turmeric powder. Mix it well and let it marinade for atleast half an hour
- Slice the onions. Accumulate all the spices for the spice mix masala paste. Dry roast all the masala, except for Fenugreek seeds and grated coconut. Midway add the garlic and ginger and roast till the spices are well roasted and brown. Remove it in a plate and allow it to cool. This is essential for the brown colour of the gravy. Dry roast the coconut till it turns brown.
- Transfer the roasted spices and coconut along with the garlic and ginger to a mixer grinder. Add the Fenugreek seeds along with the tamarind, add some water and make a fine paste.
- In a pot or a kadhai add ghee and let it heat on high flame. Add the sliced onions and saute it till it becomes soft. Add the curry leaves and saute it till it starts turning brown. Add the chicken at this stage and stir well for 4-5 mins. The chicken will release water and it will evaporate during this process. Add the masala paste and stir well. Use water to use every bit of the masala paste in the grinder. Add 3-4 cups of water. Add salt as per taste.
- Let it come to a boil on high flame and then cover the lid and let it simmer on medium flame. After 10 mins stir and check the chicken. Cover the lid and let it cook for another 10 mins till the chicken is perfectly cook. Desi chicken should take 25-30 mins while broiler chicken would take about 20 mins. Turn off the gas and let the chicken sit in the pot so that chicken is cooked to perfection and the flavours get absorbed in the chicken. Serve it with steamed rice.
The first step involves dry-frying the spices and grinding to a paste. The second step involves cooking the marinated chicken with onion, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes. And the third and final step involves simmering the chicken adding the ground paste we made earlier. Chettinad chicken curry is a South Indian curry rich that hits all the right notes. Coconut milk, spices, chili and curry leaves come together to make a complex, satisfying meal.
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