Sunday, December 11, 2005

Kodi Kura -Simple Traditional Chicken Curry


Traditional chicken curry cooked here in most Andhra homes is very simple.Button onions (sambar onions or shallots) are generally used in cooking non-veg dishes which are better tasting than the normal onions and have a mild sweet flavour.You can use the normal onions too.

This chicken recipe is a basic chicken gravy curry.Simple,easy and tasty!

1/2 kg chicken ,cleaned and cut into medium sized pieces
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 cup button onions/sambar onions(peeled)
whole spices (3 elachi,2"dalchini,6 cloves,one star aniseed)
2 cups of water
salt
oil
chopped coriander leaves for garnish

For paste:
1 tbsp coriander seeds
5-6 dry red chillis
1 tsp saunf (fennel seeds)
2 elachi (green cardamom)
4 lavanga (cloves)
2" dalchini (cinnamon)


Grind the button onions coarsely.Remove and keep aside.
Dry roast dry red chillis,coriander seeds,elachi,dalchini,cloves,saunf and make a paste adding some water.
Heat 3 tbsps of oil in a skillet and add whole spices.Now add the coarsely ground onions and fry till brown.
Add ginger garlic paste and chicken and fry for 3-4 minutes.
Now add the ground paste and salt and mix well.
Cover and cook till oil seperates.
Now add 2 cups of water and cook till done.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Serve with rice or rotis.




5 comments:

rums said...

will definitely try this out. wow! i have so many things to try out now.

Priya Bhaskaran said...

Your chicken curry looks yum. Visiting your blog for the first time. I dont know how I missed your blog. I linked your blog to mine.

sailu said...

Rums,you sure have quite a few recipes to try out....:)

Thanks for dropping by Priya.I have linked your blog to mine as well..:)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the recipe!

Paz

sailu said...

Hi Rekha,
I guess you added more water than necessary.Let the chicken cook till you get the desired curry consistency.Reduce the water content a bit if necessary.
I guess the variety of chillis you used must have given the curry its red color.
You can add coconut if you want,though I havent usesd it for the above curry.
If the spice level is fine with 6 chillis then its ok,I guess.