KERALA CHICKEN CURRY - INDIAN HOTEL STYLE
Kerala chicken curry is loaded with big South Indian flavours. A final tempering gives this curry an extra kick.
Provided by romain | glebekitchen
Categories Main Course
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 26
Steps:
- Pre-heat a small skillet over medium-low heat.
- Add the spices to the skillet.
- Toast, shaking the pan, until they start to get fragrant. This should take a two or three minutes.
- Let cool and grind to a fine powder. I like a coffee grinder for this. The old ones with the blade work well. Bad for coffee. Great for spices.
- You won't need anywhere near all of it so transfer it to a jar with a tight fitting lid and store in a cool, dark place. Use it as a funky peppery garam masala if you like.
- Measure out your spice mix. Stem your curry leaves. Prep your chicken. Measure out a cup (237 ml) of Indian hotel curry gravy. Cut up your green chilies. Slice your shallot.
- Have your garlic ginger paste, tamarind and coconut milk handy. You're good to go now.
- Heat 1 tbsp of coconut oil over medium low heat in the same little pan you used to toast the spices.
- Add the shallots and cook until the shallots start to brown.
- Add the mustard seed and about 10 curry leaves and cook until the shallots are nicely brown. Set aside.
- Heat the oil in a medium sized frying pan until the oil just starts to shimmer.
- Stir in the garlic ginger paste. Gently fry until the garlic ginger paste stops sputtering. This can get a little messy.
- Turn your heat down to medium low and add your spice mix and the remaining 5 curry leaves. Cook for about 30 seconds. You want to fry your spices in the oil. Don't skimp on the oil. Bad things happen if the spices stick and burn.
- Add the green chilies. Cook another 30 seconds or so.
- Add the Indian hotel curry gravy. Stir it really well to get the oil to combine with the curry gravy. You want everything mixed together at this point. Bring to a simmer.
- Add the chicken thigh pieces in a single layer. Nestle them down into the sauce. Cover and cook about 5 minutes. Remove the cover, flip the chicken and recover. Cook until the chicken is done. Use an instant read thermometer if you have one. You are shooting for an internal temperature of 160F. It will get to 170F as the curry finishes cooking.
- Add the tamarind paste and coconut milk. Stir well to combine.
- Look at the consistency. If you are happy with it, cover and simmer for 2 minutes. If it's too thick, add a bit of water and stir to combine. If it's too thin don't cover it to let it reduce.
- While the curry is in it's final simmer, warm up the tempering over low heat.
- Transfer the kerala chicken curry to a serving dish and drizzle/sprinkle it with the tempering.
- Kerala chicken curry is great with rice and chapatis or parathas.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 2 servings, Calories 745 kcal, Carbohydrate 30 g, Protein 38 g, Fat 56 g, SaturatedFat 34 g, Cholesterol 161 mg, Sodium 1261 mg, Fiber 11 g, Sugar 7 g
CHICKEN CURRY-KERALA STYLE
Kerala is one of the south Indian states of India. Coconut is a main ingredient in almost all the recipes belonging to this region. Sometimes it is used scraped, sometimes as a paste, sometimes the milk of coconut is extracted and added to the dish and some other times it is dry roasted and then ground into a paste before adding it to any dish. Each way of adding coconut gives a distinctive flavour to the dish. Here in this curry the coconut is roasted and then made to a paste before finally adding it to the gravy.
Provided by udita
Categories Chicken
Time 2h30m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Marinate the chicken in Chilli powder, Turmeric Powder, Black Pepper Powder and salt for 15-20 minutes.
- Then add in chopped Onions chopped Garlic chopped Ginger slit Green chilles and Curry Leaves and set aside for another 1/2 an hour.
- Meanwhile Dry roast the corriander seeds and the chillies till lightly browned. Make a paste of this when at room temperature. Keep aside.
- Dry roast the scraped coconut till it is brown in colour(do not over brown it). Make a paste of this too, when at room temperature, and set aside.
- Mix in the dry roasted corriander and chilli paste to the chicken and marinate for another 1 hour or more.
- Heat a thick bottom wok or a deep pan add the chicken and 1 cup of water and cook covered on high flame(about 5-10 minutes) making sure the chicken doesn't scorch.
- Keep cooking on low(covered) after this, while stirring ocassionally.
- When the chicken is done add the coconut paste and cook for some more time.
- Finally heat some coconut oil and splutter the mustard seeds and add sliced onions, when they are light brown in colour add the curry leaves and 2 tbsp of scraped coconut. fry till the coconuts are slightly browned. Pour this onto the chicken and mix. Cover and remove from flame.
- Serve after some time with Kerala Parottas.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 527, Fat 38.3, SaturatedFat 17.4, Cholesterol 121.7, Sodium 135.2, Carbohydrate 15.8, Fiber 5.8, Sugar 6.4, Protein 32
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