Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry
Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, kerala style spicy chicken curry. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Heat olive oil in a large skillet with a lid over medium heat until hot but not smoking. Drop in mustard seeds and cumin seeds, cover skillet, and wait until the mustard seeds have all popped. Add onion, ginger, and curry leaves. Kerala is known as the "Land of Spices" because it traded spices with Europe as well as with many ancient civilizations.

Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have kerala style spicy chicken curry using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry:
  1. Prepare 2-3 lbs Free range organic whole chicken - skinless ,cut into medium size pieces
  2. Prepare Curry leaves few strands  (or handful of leaves)
  3. Prepare 2 medium size purple onions - chopped into fine pieces
  4. Prepare 2 large tomatoes- cut into fine pieces
  5. Make ready Extra virgin coconut oil required for cooking
  6. Take 3-4 green chillies chopped vertically
  7. Take 1 cup cilantro leaves - chopped
  8. Prepare 1 1/2-2 cups coconut milk (another option - take 1 cup of shredded coconut and grind it into fine paste in mixer and use)
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp ginger paste (around 2'' piece)
  10. Take 1 tbsp garlic paste (around 4-5 nos)
  11. Take 2 tsp vinegar
  12. Prepare to taste salt
  13. Take For Masala :
  14. Take 5-8 Dried red chilli (add more or less depending on spice level)
  15. Prepare 10 Black peppercorns
  16. Take 3-4 tbsp coriander seeds
  17. Make ready 3-4 cardamom pods
  18. Take 3-4 cloves
  19. Make ready 2 bay leaves
  20. Get 1 tsp Fennel seeds
  21. Get 2 small sticks cinnamon (or 1/2 tsp if using powder)
  22. Take 2-3 strands curry leaves
  23. Get 4-5 pearl onions - peeled and chopped into two halves
  24. Prepare 1/2 tsp turmeric powder

By that time u can see the gravy to be dark brown in colour. Quick and simple Kerala style chicken curry. An excellent side dish with roti,chapathi,rice,appam ect. This recipe is my evolved kind of nadan chicken curry.

Steps to make Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry:
  1. In a pan pour 1 tbsp of coconut oil and wait till the oil becomes hot. Next, fry all the items mentioned under masala section till the nice aroma of masala comes. Turn off the heat and wait for the mixture to cool down before you grind it into a thick paste (add some water for grinding). Keep this masala paste aside
  2. In a cooking dish add few teaspoons of coconut oil required to fry the chopped onions. Wait till onion changes color. Then add salt as required.
  3. Next add ginger-garlic paste, green chillies and fry well. Into this add chopped tomato pieces, few curry leaves and sauté well
  4. Add vinegar and the previously prepared masala paste and continue to sauté well.
  5. Add chicken pieces into this. Cover the dish and cook for 5 minutes. Now ,add coconut milk/paste and mix well. Allow this to cook for 2 - 5 minutes or till the chicken is cooked. Add hot water if you need more gravy. Finally add chopped cilantro, curry leaves. Mix everything well and bring it to a boil.
  6. Turn off the heat and pour 1/2 tsp coconut oil on the top. Serve hot with rice, roti, puttu, dosa, etc .

An excellent side dish with roti,chapathi,rice,appam ect. This recipe is my evolved kind of nadan chicken curry. It goes well with pathiri, any sort of rice variants (ghee rice, pulao, normal rice), chapathi, appam or any other Indian breads. It is an easy peasy recipe for kerala chicken curry which suits for a weekday menu. Marinate chicken with garam masala, salt, turmeric, red chili powder and pepper.

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