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CHICKEN CURRY / CHICKEN KURUMA

 

Do you wish to prepare a chicken curry? or a chicken kuruma?  A curry, which is too yummy and tasty, and very easy to prepare.  Here I am introducing the same, what you are looking for……..

Ingredients:

1.     Chicken ----------------------------------------------- ½ kilogram (curry pieces)

2.     Big onion --------------------------------------------- 2 medium sized (chopped finely)

3.     Shallots / small onion ---------------------------- 10-15 numbers (finely chopped)

4.     Green chilli ----------------------------------------- 2 numbers (split into halves)

5.     Tomato ----------------------------------------------- 1 medium sized (preferably Bangalore tomato, finely chopped)

6.     Curry leaves ---------------------------------------- one spring

7.     Ginger garlic paste -------------------------------- 2 teaspoon

8.     Cashew nuts ---------------------------------------- 10 numbers

9.     Mustard seeds-------------------------------------- 1 teaspoon

10.     Chicken powder ----------------------------------- 2 teaspoon

11.     Chilli powder ---------------------------------------- ½ teaspoon

12.     Kashmiri chilli powder ---------------------------- 1 teaspoon

13.     Coriander powder --------------------------------- 1 tablespoon

14.     Turmeric powder ---------------------------------- ½ teaspoon

15.     Pepper powder ------------------------------------ 1 teaspoon

16.     Oil ------------------------------------------------------ 2 tablespoon

17.     Salt ----------------------------------------------------- as needed

 

Preparation:

1.     Wash the chicken and keep it aside

2.     Heat a non-stick pan and add oil and splutter mustard seeds and add curry leaves

3.     Add onion and green chilli and a little salt and stir well  until it become light brown colour

4.     Add ginger garlic paste and cashew nut and stir well until the onion become golden colour (make sure that don’t burn)

5.     Switch the flame to law and add all the ingredients from 10 – 14 and stir well

6.     Then take out the half of the onion mixture, which we prepared till now including all the cashew nuts into another plate and allow it to cool

7.     The remaining portion in the pan, move to flame again and add chicken powder and tomato and stir well

8.     Add chicken pieces and stir well and add salt and allow it to cook, after closing the lid of the pan in low flame

9.     By the time, In a mixer grinder, make a paste of the items which we kept to cool in 6th step

10.     After 10 minutes, add the paste to the chicken in the pan and stir well

11.     Add salt as per your taste and stir and allow it to cook well (stir in between)

12.     If you feel the gravy is very thick, add a little boiled water and stir well and allow it to cook

13.     Switch off the furnace, once the chicken cooked completely and the gravy become dark brown colour and after the oil separates out

14.     Now, our chicken kuruma / curry is ready to serve

 

Notes:

Ø This is normally a thick gravy curry. If you wish to add some water, you can add. But don’t pour too much of water, because it will affect the consistency of the curry and won’t be that much nice

Ø Be careful doing the 5th and 6th steps, don’t allow the ingredients to burn

 

I am sure that once you prepare this at your kitchen, this curry will be a superhero in your chicken menu… J Because everyone will definitely love the taste….

So try this recipe and let me know your comments, suggestions, and criticisms…. Your words are my inspiration …..

POTATO THEEYAL / POTATO VARUTHARACHA CURRY / POTATO KUZHAMBU/ POTATO KARAKUZHAMBU

 

Ingredients:

Potato   --------------------------------- 2 numbers (Chopped into medium sized squares)

Big Onion ------------------------------ 1 Medium sized

Small Onion (Shallots) --------------10 numbers

Coconut -------------------------------- ½ grated

Ginger ---------------------------------- 1 tsp

Garlic ----------------------------------- 1 tsp

Green chilli -------------------------- 3 numbers

Tamarind Juice---------------------- extract juice from a gooseberry sized ball

Chilli powder ----------------------- 1 tsp

Coriander powder ---------------- 2 tsp

Turmeric powder ----------------- ¼ tsp

Fenugreek powder -------------- a pinch

Garam masala ------------------- ¼ tsp

Pepper powder ----------------- ¼ tsp

Water ----------------------------- as per requirement

Salt --------------------------------- to taste

Oil ---------------------------------- 3 tbsp

 

Method of Preparation:

1.      In a pan, sauté (fry over medium heat) chopped onion for a few minutes

2.      Add potato, small onion (shallots), green chilli and  sauté it for some time

3.      Add ginger and garlic  and sauté well

4.      Add salt to taste

5.      Add chilli powder, coriander powder, and turmeric powder. Stir/Mix the contents properly

6.      Add tamarind juice and enough water to cover the ingredients and boil it in high flame  first and reduce the flame and cook well

7.      In another pan, fry the grated coconut into golden brown color, make it cool and grind it into smooth paste

8.      Add the coconut paste to the cooked potato

9.      Add Garam masala, pepper powder and fenugreek powder and boil for some time

10.             Check the salt and adjust to the taste

 

This can be served with rice, chappathi, rotti, naan, appam, paratha, idiyappam, etc.,