Kozhi Curry
Kozhi curry Naadan style
Ingredients
- 1 kg Chicken pieces or 2.2 lbs
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 1 1/2 cups Chopped onion
- 2 tbsp Chopped ginger
- 1/2 tbsp Chopped garlic
- 4 nos Slit green chillies
- 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- 1/2 to Chilly powder
- 2 tbsp Coriander powder
- 1 tsp Cumin seeds Jeerakam
- 1/2 tsp Aniseeds Perinjeerakam
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Curry leaves A few
- 2 cups Coconut milk
- 2 tsp Lime juice
For grinding garam massala (or 1 1/2 tsp of garam massala powder):
- 5 nos Cloves Grambu
- 2 nos Cardamom Elakka
- 3 nos Cinnamon sticks Karugapatta
Instructions
- Clean the chicken pieces.
- Mix it with 1 tbs of salt and 2 tsp of lime juice (or half cup of curd) and keep aside for half an hour.
- Make a paste of the coriander, chilly and turmeric powder.
- Heat oil in a thick bottomed vessel.
- Add chopped onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies and brown it.
- Add the masala paste and fry for a minute.
- Add the chicken pieces together with the juice that comes out of it. Stir it for about five minutes.
- If the coconut milk is taken from fresh grated coconut add about 2 cups of the second milk to the curry. Otherwise add about 2 cups of hot water. Cover and cook for about half an hour till the chicken pieces are cooked.
- :-If you like potatoes in the curry, about one and a half cups of potato pieces can be added to the curry half way through.
- Add the thick coconut milk and the garam masala powder and curry leaves.
- :-If you want more gravy in Kozhi Curry or the Kozhi Curry gravy is not thick enough dissolve a tsp of corn flour in milk or water and add to the curry and just boil again stirring well and bring the Kozhi curry to boil.
- :- Kozhi Curry Nadan Style is ready.
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