Рецепт Chicken Coconut Milk Curry
INGREDIENTS
(Serves 3 - 4 people)
- Chicken - 500 grams (With bones preferred)
- Coconut milk - 2 cups ; Thin coconut milk - 1 cup (To know how to make thin milk see tip 1)
- Big onions - 1 (sliced)
- Ginger-Garlic paste - 2 spoons
- Curry leaves - A handful
- Red chilli powder - 1.5 spoons
- Cumin powder - 1/2 spoon
- Pepper powder - 1/2 spoon
- Turmeric powder - Few pinches
- Cumin seeds - 1/4 spoon
- Cinnamon stick - 1 inch long piece
- Cardamom pods - 2
- Salt - As per taste
- Oil - 5 spoons ; Ghee - 1/2 spoon
PREPARATION METHOD
Wash chicken well in water apply turmeric powder and salt and set aside for few minutes and wash again.
Heat a wide pan add oil and ghee, when it heats up add cumin seeds and let it splutter, then add cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, curry leaves, sliced onions and saute well until the onions turn translucent.
Add ginger garlic paste saute for few minutes, then add red chilli powder, cumin powder, salt and stir well.
Then add the chicken pieces and saute for few minutes.
Now add 1.5 cups of coconut milk and 1 cup of thin coconut milk (or) water and cook on low flame.
Stir occasionally and add water if necessary, then add
pepper powder.
When the chicken seems almost cooked (takes atleast 20 minutes) add the remaining coconut milk and stir well.
Cook for another 10 minutes on low flame and remove from flame when the chicken pieces seems tender and cooked and the gravy thickens.
If you wish garnish with coriander leaves and serve!
TIP 1: How to extract thick and thin coconut milk
Thick coconut milk: In a blender add the coconut pieces and grind coarsely first do not add any water now. Then add 1/4 a cup of water and grind into a fine paste. Use a muslin cloth or strainer with finer holes to extract the milk, add another 1/4 cup of water and extract the milk. Muslin cloth works best. Don't discard the pulp, you'll need this to extract thinner milk
Thin coconut milk: Now take the
leftover coconut pulp and mix it with 1 cup of water. Then extract the thin milk using muslin cloth or strainer.
TIP 2: This is a mildly spiced curry, but seems like a spicy one. You can add more red chilli powder if you like it more hot.
TIP 3: You can prepare this curry using a pressure cooker also but it will not give you the best flavors. For the pressure cooker method follow the same steps upto step 6 (i.e upto addition of pepper powder) then close the pressure cooker with lid and cook for 10 minutes. Then open the lid and add the remaining coconut milk and boil for another 5 minutes and serve.
Missed ginger-garlic paste in this picture's ingredients list while editing!
Lip-smacking and delicious chicken coconut milk curry is now ready!! It is so yum and goes well with rice, especially coconut rice or ghee rice, dosas and idlis!!