Chettinad Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
For marination:
- Chicken - 1 kg, cut into medium size pieces
- Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
- Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
- Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
- Salt - as needed
- Grated coconut - 3/4 cup
- Corinader seeds - 1 tsp
- Dry red chilli - 2 nos
- Cardamom - 4 nos
- Cloves - 5 nos
- Cinnamon - 1 inch stick
- Star anise - 1
- Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Whole black pepper - 1/2 tsp
- Onion - 3 nos, chopped
- Tomato - 2 nos, chopped
- Curry leaves - 2 springs
- Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
- Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
- Coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
- Oil - as needed
- Salt - to taste
- Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp
Preparation:
- Marinate the chicken pieces with all the ingredients listed under marination.Set it aside for 1 hour.
- Heat a pan and dry roast all the ingredients listed under 'for roasting and grinding' till golden brown.Let it cool and grind to a fine powder.
- In a heavy bottomed pan, heat oil and add ginger garlic paste along with chopped onion,curry leaves and enough salt.Saute till it becomes golden brown.
- Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and fry for few seconds.
- Add in chopped tomatoes and cook till it becomes soft.
- Next, add the ground coconut mixture and mix everything well.
- To this, add the marinated chicken pieces along with enough water .Cover and cook until the chicken is done.
- Taste check for salt and add more if needed.
- Switch off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with rice, chapatis etc.
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