Full Chicken Curry

Ingredients for Full Chicken Curry:

1. Chicken – 1, full (below 800 grams)
2. Curd – 2 big spoons
   Ginger-garlic paste – 1 big spoon
   Chilli powder – ½ small spoon
   Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
   Salt – For taste
3. Coconut oil – As required
4. Onions – 3, chopped fine
   Ginger paste – 1 small spoon
   Garlic paste – 1 small spoon
5. Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
   Chilli powder – ½ small spoon
   Coriander powder – 4 small spoons
6. Cardamom – 3
   Cloves – 3
   Cinnamon – 1-inch piece
   Pepper – 1 small spoon
   Cumin seeds – 1 small spoon
   Fennel seeds – 1 small spoon
   ashews or almonds – 6 or 7
7. Onion – 1 small, chopped fine
   Green chillies – 2, chopped
   Curry leaves – 2 sprigs
   Tomato – ½, chopped

How to prepare Full Chicken Curry?

1. Clean the chicken as a whole and marinate it using ingredients no: 2
2. Allow the chicken to rest for an hour.
3. Heat the oil and fry the chicken till it turns golden brown.
4. In the remaining oil, sauté ingredients no: 4, followed by ingredients no: 5.
5. Take it off the flame and allow it to cool.
6. Make a smooth gravy of the above mixture using a mixer.
7. Dry fry ingredients no: 6 and make a fine powder when it cools.
8. Heat oil in a pan and sauté ingredients no: 7.
9. Add onion gravy and fried masala powders to it and sauté again.
10. Add fried chicken to it and half a cup of hot water, and salt if extra needed.
11. Close the lid and cook in a low flame for the next 15 minutes or till the gravy thickens.
12. Decorate your full chicken with coriander leaves and serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine June 1 – 14, 2019 

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