Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chettinad chicken curry. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chettinad Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Chettinad Chicken Curry is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
Learn How To Make Chettinad Chicken Curry Recipe, a South Indian Chicken Recipe by Chef Varun Inamdar. Make this delicious and spicy Chettinad Chicken. From Tamilnadu in South India, Chettinad chicken curry is quite fiery. There's no reason why you can't reduce the chilies to suit your own palate though.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chettinad chicken curry using 25 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chettinad Chicken Curry:
- Prepare 1 kg Indian desi chicken
- Prepare 300 gm Madras onions, sliced
- Get 2 tbsp ghee
- Make ready 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Take To taste Salt
- Prepare 15 curry leaves
- Prepare For masala paste
- Get 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- Get 1 tsp black peppercorns
- Take 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- Get 5 cloves
- Make ready 4 green cardamons
- Make ready 2 star anise
- Make ready 1 inch cinnamon bark
- Get 2 stone flower (kalpasi/dagad phool)
- Make ready 5 red chilli (spicy but not colour)
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Make ready 1-2 strings of mace
- Prepare 7-8 cashewnuts
- Prepare 10 cloves garlic
- Take 1 inch ginge sliced
- Get 1/4 tsp Fenugreek seeds
- Make ready 1 tsp tamarind pulp
- Get 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
After trying it many times, I can say it is the. Cooking this Chettinad chicken curry involves three steps. The first step involves dry-frying the spices and grinding to a paste. The second step involves cooking the marinated chicken with onion, ginger.
Steps to make Chettinad Chicken Curry:
- Firstly clean the chicken. My personal preference is desi chicken but you can use broiler or english chicken. Add half a lemon juice and turmeric powder. Mix it well and let it marinade for atleast half an hour
- Slice the onions. Accumulate all the spices for the spice mix masala paste. Dry roast all the masala, except for Fenugreek seeds and grated coconut. Midway add the garlic and ginger and roast till the spices are well roasted and brown. Remove it in a plate and allow it to cool. This is essential for the brown colour of the gravy. Dry roast the coconut till it turns brown.
- Transfer the roasted spices and coconut along with the garlic and ginger to a mixer grinder. Add the Fenugreek seeds along with the tamarind, add some water and make a fine paste.
- In a pot or a kadhai add ghee and let it heat on high flame. Add the sliced onions and saute it till it becomes soft. Add the curry leaves and saute it till it starts turning brown. Add the chicken at this stage and stir well for 4-5 mins. The chicken will release water and it will evaporate during this process. Add the masala paste and stir well. Use water to use every bit of the masala paste in the grinder. Add 3-4 cups of water. Add salt as per taste.
- Let it come to a boil on high flame and then cover the lid and let it simmer on medium flame. After 10 mins stir and check the chicken. Cover the lid and let it cook for another 10 mins till the chicken is perfectly cook. Desi chicken should take 25-30 mins while broiler chicken would take about 20 mins. Turn off the gas and let the chicken sit in the pot so that chicken is cooked to perfection and the flavours get absorbed in the chicken. Serve it with steamed rice.
The first step involves dry-frying the spices and grinding to a paste. The second step involves cooking the marinated chicken with onion, ginger. Chettinad Chicken Curry is known for the flavors, the spice and the aroma! This recipe for chettinad chicken curry is a really easy curry that will feed the family. Put the garlic, ginger, black pepper, turmeric and chicken in a bowl.
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