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Kerala Chicken Stew

Easy chicken stew
Prep Time 30 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Cuisine Kerala
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 kg Chicken
  • 1 1/2 cups Grated coconut
  • 2 nos Onion finely chopped length wise, medium
  • 1 inch Ginger chopped
  • 3 nos Garlic pods chopped
  • 4 - Green chillies cut silt open length wise
  • 1 no Potato cut into cubes, medium
  • 1 no Tomato cut into cube size, big
  • 1 tsp Garam masala powder
  • 1 tsp Chicken masala
  • Oil As reqd
  • Salt As reqd
  • Curry leaves A few
  • Coriander leaves(optional)

Instructions
 

  • Clean chicken pieces and marinate it with enough salt and chicken masala for 1 hr.
  • Extract 1 cup of thick coconut milk and 1 cup of thin coconut milk from the grated coconut.
  • Heat oil in a pressure cooker.
  • Add mustard seeds and allow it to splutter.
  • Add onion and green chillies and saute it.
  • Add ginger, garlic, curry leaves and saute well.
  • Add potatoes and chicken pieces and stir it for a while.
  • Add tomatoes, thin coconut milk and stir it.
  • Close the lid and cook it in high flame to 4 whistles.
  • When the pressure has gone, open the lid and add the thick coconut milk.
  • :- Don¦t boil it again....just heat it.
  • Turn off the stove and add garam masala powder and coriander leaves.
  • :- Good with appam and dosa.
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