Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry – without coconut 

Chicken curry well flavoured with spices, this recipe is a kind of traditional chicken curry. It goes well with pathiri, any sort of rice variants (ghee rice, pulao, normal rice), chapati, appam or any other Indian pieces of bread. It is an easy peasy recipe for Kerala chicken curry which suits for a weekday menu. A good one for bachelors and newbies.

Yield 6 serving
Cooking Time 50 minutes
Preparation Time 10 minutes
Total Time 1 hour

Ingredients:

chicken 1 kg

Marination

pepper powder 1 teaspoon
turmeric powder 3/4 teaspoon
salt 1 teaspoon

Masala Gravy

onion (medium) – 3 numbers
ginger (grinded) – 1 tbsp
garlic (grinded) – 1 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilli Powder – 2 tbsps
coriander powder – 4 tsps
garam masala powder – 1 tsp
fennel powder – 1 tsp
curry leaves (Sprig) – 3 numbers
tomato (medium) – 2 numbers
water – 1 1/2 cups
coriander leaves (chopped) – 3 tablespoon
Coconut oil or Vegetable oil 3 tablespoon
salt

Steps

1. Marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with the ingredients listed under marination. Keep it aside for 30 minutes.
2. Slice onion into very small pieces so that it would be easy for it to get mashed into the gravy while chicken gets cooked.
3. In a Kadai, heat the oil. When the oil is hot, add the sliced onions, curry leaves, and salt. Adding salt helps the onion to get cooked fast.
4. Saute the onions until it is lightly brown in colour. Add ginger and garlic, saute well.
5. Once sauteed well, add chilly powder, coriander powder, garam masala, fennel powder and saute. Add oil as needed to fry the masalas. ** This is a bit of spicy curry. So adjust chilly powder according to your spice tolerance level.
6. Grind the tomatoes. Once masalas are done, add tomato into it.
7. Saute for around 5 minutes in medium flame, until tomatoes are cooked.
8. Add water. Bring it to boil and adjust salt in the gravy. Then add marinated chicken pieces. Stir till the chicken pieces are well coated.
9. Cover and cook until chicken is done. It will take around 20 minutes.
10. Coriander leaves are optional. Add it only if you like the coriander leaves flavour. Boil till the gravy is up to the consistency desired.
11. Serve it with pathiri, any sort of rice variants ( ghee rice, pulao, normal rice) and any Indian pieces of bread ?

Notes:

Coconut oil is preferred to get the authentic taste.
It tastes the best with chicken with skin or chicken with fat.
Kashmiri chilli powder gives the bright red colour to the gravy.

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