Recipe: Appetizing Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry

Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry. Water and hence gravy will come from the chicken itself. Add the thinly cut ginger, garlic, slit green chillies, curry leaves and thinly sliced onions. Add enough salt with this mixture.

Slice onion into very small pieces so that it would be easy for it to get mashed into the gravy while chicken gets cooked. In a kadai, heat the oil. When oil is hot, add the sliced onions, curry leaves, and salt. You can cook Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry

1. It's of Free range organic whole chicken - skinless ,cut into medium size pieces.
2. You need of Curry leaves few strands  (or handful of leaves).
3. It's of medium size purple onions - chopped into fine pieces.
4. You need of large tomatoes- cut into fine pieces.
5. It's of Extra virgin coconut oil required for cooking.
6. You need of green chillies chopped vertically.
7. It's of cilantro leaves - chopped.
8. You need of coconut milk (another option - take 1 cup of shredded coconut and grind it into fine paste in mixer and use).
9. It's of ginger paste (around 2'' piece).
10. You need of garlic paste (around 4-5 nos).
11. You need of vinegar.
12. Prepare of salt.
13. Prepare of For Masala :.
14. You need of Dried red chilli (add more or less depending on spice level).
15. It's of Black peppercorns.
16. Prepare of coriander seeds.
17. You need of cardamom pods.
18. It's of cloves.
19. It's of bay leaves.
20. You need of Fennel seeds.
21. Prepare of small sticks cinnamon (or 1/2 tsp if using powder).
22. Prepare of curry leaves.
23. You need of pearl onions - peeled and chopped into two halves.
24. You need of turmeric powder.

Adding salt helps the onion to get cooked fast. close the curry with a lid. The gravy splutters and it is always safe to close the curry allowing to simmer further. Let is simmer again in the closed pan until the pieces turn soft and cooked. Add a dash of oil to a clean pan, place over a medium heat and, once hot, add the chicken pieces.

Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry step by step

1. In a pan pour 1 tbsp of coconut oil and wait till the oil becomes hot. Next, fry all the items mentioned under masala section till the nice aroma of masala comes. Turn off the heat and wait for the mixture to cool down before you grind it into a thick paste (add some water for grinding). Keep this masala paste aside.
2. In a cooking dish add few teaspoons of coconut oil required to fry the chopped onions. Wait till onion changes color. Then add salt as required..
3. Next add ginger-garlic paste, green chillies and fry well. Into this add chopped tomato pieces, few curry leaves and sauté well.
4. Add vinegar and the previously prepared masala paste and continue to sauté well..
5. Add chicken pieces into this. Cover the dish and cook for 5 minutes. Now ,add coconut milk/paste and mix well. Allow this to cook for 2 - 5 minutes or till the chicken is cooked. Add hot water if you need more gravy. Finally add chopped cilantro, curry leaves. Mix everything well and bring it to a boil..
6. Turn off the heat and pour 1/2 tsp coconut oil on the top. Serve hot with rice, roti, puttu, dosa, etc ..

Stir-fry on a high heat until the chicken is golden, then reduce the heat and add the curry. Drop in mustard seeds and cumin seeds, cover skillet, and wait until the mustard seeds have all popped. Add onion, ginger, and curry leaves. Delicious Kerala - Nadan Chicken Curry is ready to be enjoyed with your loved ones. Serve with ghee rice or plain (Kerala) rice.