Chicken curry with coconut
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.
Servings: 3 people
Calories:
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.