Chef : Anjum Khan – recipe provided by Jitha Majeed Shafi
A couple of days ago, I realized that I haven’t tried coooking many South Indian dishes mostly because I’ve had a mental block towards using coconut and it’s by-products in my cooking. But I’ve eaten some curries and they are so delicious that I’ve decided that now that I am back into the kitchen more often, I’m going to try to give it a shot!
Jitha generously shared this recipe with me and it was unbelieveably delicious! This is definitely going to be a regular in my kitchen now. I couldn’t follow her recipe completely because I don’t know how to extract fresh coconut milk and I used tinned coconut milk instead. Next time, I hope I can try to make it with freshly extracted coconut milk though, because if it was this good with tinned milk, I can’t wait to taste it the original way!
Serves 4-5
Ingredients:
Chicken – 1 kg, de-skinned, washed and cut to medium pieces
Canola oil – 1 tbsp
Onion – 2 large, cubed
Tomato – 1 large, cubed
Ginger paste – 1/2 tsp
Garlic paste – 1 tsp
Green chili – 4 (or adjust to spice tolerance)
Red chili powder – 2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Garam masla powder – 1/4 tsp
Freshly extracted Coconut milk – 1 cup, thick milk*
Curry leaves – handful
Corinader leaves – for garnish
*Like I mentioned in the introduction, I used tinned coconut milk and I ended up using 2 cups of it.
Method:
- Grind together the onions, tomato, ginger paste, garlic paste, green chili, red chili powder, turmeric powder and garam masala powder to make a paste.
- Mix the prepared paste with the oil and rub onto the chicken and leave to marinate in the fridge for a minium of 2 hours.
- Once marinated, heat a vessel on low flame and add the chicken to it.
- Cover with lid and allow to cook until almost done (approximately 15-20 minutes).
- Add in the freshly extracted thick coconut milk and curry leaves and cook until the chicken is done.
- Garnish with corinder leaves and serve hot. Enjoy with ghee rice, idiyappam, appam or even naan!
Thank you Jitha for sharing this delicious recipe with us! Hope to be cooking lots of other things from Jitha’s kitchen soon! xx
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