Chicken Curry South Indian Style Food

CHICKEN CURRY SOUTH INDIAN STYLE

Steps:

• Marinate chicken pieces with pepper powder,turmeric,salt,lemon juice around 30 minutes.Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaf, ginger,garlic and saute for a minute.Add onion,green chillies and saute. Add salt also.Add curry leaves into this and saute.Add chopped tomatoes.Make a paste of coriander,chilly powders with 1tbsp water and add this paste into it and saute until the oil separates from it.Then add chicken pieces and saute well for 5 minutes and add 1/2 cup water .close the lid and cook in low heat for 20 minutes.Add chopped cilantro leaves and add few drops of lemon juice at the end.Do not boil after adding lemon juice,the curry tastes sour.Serve with bread,chappathi or rice.

AUTHENTIC INDIAN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• In a large pot, heat oil and cinnamon sticks, cumin seeds, cloves for 1 minute, before they began to get dark add onions.
• Sautee' onions for 1 minute on medium high heat, add chicken tender cubes. Cook that stirring occasionally for 3-5 minutes.
• Add rest of the ingredients (saving a small amount of the cilantro for garnish at end).
• Stir and simmer on medium-low for 15 minutes.
• Then serve over rice. (You may add more tomato sauce, or water depending on how chunky you want the curry sauce.).

SOUTH INDIAN (KERALA) CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Heat oil in a deep pan.
• Mix/Grind coriander, chili, turmeric and pepper together in a bowl - set aside.("A").
• Fry mustard in hot oil and sauté onion, garlic, ginger, chili and curry leaves ("B") till onions are golden.
• Once done - remove onion mixture from oil to another frying pan & add tomatoes and keep over low heat till tomatoes dissolve from their skins.
• Meanwhile in the deep pan, add chicken, vinegar, salt, and spice mixture ("A") - stir for a few minutes . Mix coconut milk & water and add. Cover the pan with lid & cook over med-low heat ("C").
• When the meat is cooked through, add the potatoes. Once the potatoes are half-cooked (about 15 minutes), stir in the tomato-onion mixture from "B" and add the tomato paste.
• Leave uncovered & stir once in awhile. When the potatoes are cooked through & the curry thickens, remove from heat & garnish with chopped coriander & enjoy with jasmine or basmati rice!