Chicken is one ingredient which can be made in many ways, and still tastes good. I personally love this chicken curry using coconut. Hope you also will love it.
This goes well with rice, idli, dosa, chapati, paratha or Pulao.
Chicken curry with coconut recipe
Ingredients
Chicken – 1 lb cut into small pieces
Shallots – 6 to 8 thinly sliced
Mustard seeds – few
Green chilli – 2 slit in half
Curry leaves – few
Salt – as required
Garam masala – 1 tsp
To marinate
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
Coriander powder – 2 tsp
Pepper powder – 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
Salt – as required
To sauté and grind
Onion – 1 cup chopped
Tomato – 2 small sized chopped
Coconut – 1/2 cup grated
Fennel seeds – 1 1/2 tsp
Ginger – a small piece
Garlic – 4 or 5 pods
Curry leaves – few
Cashews – 5 or 6
Method
- Marinate chicken with the ingredients under ‘ to marinate’ and keep aside for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Sauté all ingredients one by one under sauté and grind’. After cooling down, grind to a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a pan, crackle mustard seeds. Add shallots, green chilli and curry leaves.
- Add Chicken, mix well, and cook covered. Usually chicken oozes its water, add water only needed.
- When the chicken is half done add ground coconut paste along required water, garam masala, and salt.
- Let the chicken cook well. When the chicken gets cooked, let the gravy boil till the consistency is needed.
- Serve along with rice, idli, dosa, chapati, paratha, or idiyapam.
Chicken curry with coconut
Ingredients
- 1 lb Chicken cut into small pieces
- 8 Shallots thinly sliced
- Mustard seeds few
- 2 Green chili slit in half
- Curry leaves few
- Salt as required
- 1 tsp Garam masala
To marinate
- 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1 tsp Red chili powder
- 2 tsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Pepper powder
- 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
- Salt as required
To sauté and grind
- 1 cup Onion chopped
- 2 Tomato chopped
- 1/2 cup Coconut grated
- 1.5 tsp Fennel seeds
- Ginger a small piece
- 4 Garlic pods
- Curry leaves few
- 6 Cashews
Instructions
- Marinate chicken with the ingredients under ‘ to marinate’ and keep aside for 30 minutes to 1 hour.
- Sauté all ingredients one by one under sauté and grind’. After cooling down, grind to a smooth paste.
- Heat oil in a pan, crackle mustard seeds. Add shallots, green chili and curry leaves.
- Add chicken, mix well, and cook covered. Usually chicken oozes its water, add water only needed.
- When the chicken is half done add ground coconut paste along required water, garam masala, and salt.
- Let the chicken cook well. When the chicken gets cooked, let the gravy boil till the consistency is needed.
- Serve along with rice, idli, dosa, chapati, paratha, or idiyapam.
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All of your recipes look so good and now I’m insanely hungry ? can’t wait to read more!
? Thank you… welcome to my blog?
And I’m a poor guy who stacked in Maharashtra,eating kala masala chicken curry.thenga itta curry kazichittu nalukalayi ??????
Good preparation .
? I can understand that feeling?.. even here the coconut doesn’t taste like the one we get in our native… early days was difficult for me..but ippo angana adjust cheyuthu pogunu aniya?… Thank you that you liked it?
Yummy..love the pictures.. looks superb.
Thank you dear?
Looks So good! What Yummyness!
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Yummy!
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Good one!!
Thank you Anu?
mouthwatering! Love chicken curry
Thank you Archana?..