Rambha Leaves Chicken Curry

Ingredients for Rambha Leaves Chicken Curry:

1. Boneless chicken – ½ kg, cut into square pieces
2. Pepper powder – 2 big spoons
   Chilli powder – 1 big spoon
   Ginger crushed – ½ small spoon
   Garlic crushed – ½ small spoon
   Salt – For taste
   Kashmiri chilli paste – 1.5 small spoons
   Corn flour – 1 small spoon
   Lemon juice – 1 small spoon
   Garam masala powder – As required
3. Rambha leaves – As needed
4. Coconut oil – As required
5. Cinnamon – 1
   Cardamom – 1
6. Onions – 2, finely chopped
   Ginger chopped – 2 small spoons
7. Ginger-garlic paste – 1.5 small spoons
8. Turmeric powder – 1/4 small spoon
   Coriander powder – 1.5 small spoons
   Chilli powder – 1/2 a small spoon
   Kashmiri chilli paste – 1 small spoon
   Garam masala powder – ¼ small spoon
   Salt – As required
9. Tomato – 1, chopped fine
10. Black chickpeas cooked – 100 gm
11. Cashews – 10, soaked in ¼ cup milk and ground
12. Water – 1.5 cups
13. Eggs boiled – 2, split into two halves
14. Fresh cream – 2 big spoons
    Curry leaves – 2 stalks
    Coriander leaves and cashews fried – To decorate

How to prepare Rambha Leaves Chicken Curry?

1. Marinate chicken using ingredients no: 2.
2. Wrap each chicken piece in a rambha leaf and deep fry in hot oil.
3. Fry each side for 3-4 minutes till it turns brown.
4. Heat the oil and fry cinnamon and cardamom.
5.  Add onions and ginger, and sauté the contents.
6.  Add ginger-garlic paste and sauté for 1 minute.
7.  Add ingredients no: 8 and mix well.
8.  Add tomatoes and sauté for 8 minutes.
9. When oil clears, add chickpeas and sauté for one more minute.
10. Add cashew paste and sauté for 3 minutes.
11. Add water and allow to boil.
12.  Simmer the flame and boil for 7-8 minutes.
13. Add fried chicken (wrapped in leaves), boiled eggs and allow the contents to thicken.
14. Turn off the flame and transfer the contents to a serving plate.
15. Decorate with ingredients no: 14 and serve.

Vanitha Magazine December 1-14, 2017

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