South Indian style chicken curry recipe packed full of spices and flavor.
Madras is a city in Tamilnadu (state), India. Madras is now renamed to Chennai. 😀 Ofcourse I can say this is Madras chicken curry because I am from the same city and I totally love my city. I make different styles of chicken each time; I usually tend not to make the same recipe again and again. There are so many recipes to try, why to waste on that. We have thousands of recipes to try in every cuisine. Few comfort foods are the ones I try always. But these days, I am trying to even change that. It is a famous south Indian recipe. I made this long back that and drafted this recipe. So thought it is one of the easiest recipes and I should post. It is one of the finest spicy recipes. If you are making it for the first time, try to taste as you make to adjust to your spice level. This recipe was spicy, tasty and flavorful.
This is the most indulgent, easy and delicious way of preparing chicken in Indian style. The ingredient is very simple and pretty straight-forward. This is such an easy dish, yet so delicious and flavorful.
My other chicken recipes: chicken 65, Spicy chicken roast,pepper chicken curry, sweet and spicy garlic chicken drumsticks, spicy chicken egg fry noodles
- Chicken breast – 250 gms, no skin, cut into small bite sizes
- Oil – 1.5 tbsp
- Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
- Red chilli whole – 2, broken
- Curry leaves - 10
- Garlic – 4, chopped finely
- Ginger – 1 inch, chopped finely
- Red Onion medium – 1, chopped finely
- Tomato medium – 1, chopped finely
- Green chilli – 1, slit
- CHilli powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder – 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
- Fennel powder – ½ tsp
- Pepper powder – 1 tsp
- Garam masala – ¼ tsp
- Yogurt – 1 tbsp (optional)
- Coriander – 1 tbsp, chopped finely
- Salt – as needed
- Take a pan and add oil in medium flame, add cumin seeds, dried red chilli, and when their color changes, add garlic, ginger, green chillies and curry leaves. When the garlic gets sauted, add onions to it.
- After the onion is sautéed well, add the chopped tomatoes with turmeric powder. Mix well.
- Add powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, pepper powder, fennel powder and salt. Sauté well for 2 mins till it oozes out some oil.
- Add the chicken and yogurt, keep it in medium-low flame and mix well. Close it with the lid and do not add water. Let the chicken cook from the water that chicken oozes out.
- After 10-12 minutes, it would have been cooked, add some coriander and mix well. See if the consistency is good for you, switch off.
You can have this recipe with plain rice or peas pulao or veg fried rice or restaurant style lamb biryani.
It looks very delicious!!
Thank you 🙂
Hi dear..the chicken curry recipe was awsesome. Thanks..i used to add water previously.but i tried ur recipe no water but so mouth watering it turned up😋😊😊(my hubby words “SUPER”)
Thank you
Ashita
🙂 do happy to see the message 🙂 Thank you
Wow this is really inspiring to think you could do it in 30 minutes.
It’s now on my “to make” list.
let me know how it turns out Ayngelina 🙂
how many curry leaves ???
Apologies for late reply :)! ARound 9-10 should be good 🙂
This is exactly what I need today – hopefully in the next 30 minutes!! Meal and photos look absolutely DELISH!!
Thank you so much 🙂 Jacquee
Wow this looks delicious. I just made butter chicken the other day. I truly love curries…the aroma of the spices are incredible.
Thank you so much Gloria 🙂
This. Looks. Incredible! Plus, your photos are superb. Can’t wait to try your curry out. 🙂
What do I do with the yogurt???
Add it when you add chicken please. Thanks
Hi, if I want to tone down the spiciness a bit, what and how much of it should I reduce?
Hello sham, you can cut down by adding one broken red chilli and also 1/4 tsp chilli powder or 1/2 tsp.:) let me know how it turned out!
It was awesome. Tried today 🙂
Thank you Iswarrya 🙂 Glad you liked it 🙂 keep supporting!
Tried this dish today n it was yummmmmy.. specially my hubby liked it very much😊😊
Thank you Nafi 🙂 Glad that your family loved it 🙂
Tried this recipe today . It turned out yummy. Lately my husband has been craving for South indian curries. This is the second recipe of yours that I tried. Absolutely yumm..Thank you !!
Made this for me and my wife used birds eye chilli it was Lovely & had a nice kick to it #bookmarked
🙂 Thank you dan for making it 🙂 Glad you liked it 🙂
I tried it. it came out well…thanks for sharing the recipe.
Warm Regards
Amrit
Thank you so much Amritraj 🙂
Awesome dish. I m happy I made it but since I don’t eat spicy food I escape adding chillies (both red n green) n used only red chilli powder n yet it turned out great. Thanks for sharing such an easy n wonderful recipe. Hope to see more such recipes..
Thank you so much Arshia 🙂 🙂
Just tried it and it came out well. Thank you for this easy recipe!
Thank you so much 🙂 Deepa! 🙂 Keep supporting 🙂
What’s this yogart?
It is plain unflavoured yogurt. (optional)
From where,we’ll get this
Tried it today … Came out very well. My whole family like it. Was a lil bit spicy though for me and kids. So next time gonna decrease the number of chillies,,🙂. Btw my chicken didn’t get cooked in 10 min it took 30 min😀.
Thank you reshma 🙂 Haha. yeah the spicyness ;)! I should say its hard on kids :). Chicken cooks a lot differently these days in every place 🙁 I am getting confused too.
How much Tumeric do I need to use as I can’t see it on list of ingredients unless I’m just blind from these onions?
Thank you so much for mentioning. Apologies for late reply 🙂 I used 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder. 🙂 I would suggest always 1/4tsp – 1/2tsp max for most recipes
HEY hi
I tried this dish yesterday n it was super hit
THAnks
Thank you Nidhi 🙂 and a great name 🙂
😀😀thanks
Hi
If I plan to make 1 kg (1000 gm) chicken with this recipe, do i make the quantity mentioned above for all ingredients x 4 times as your recipe is for 250 gm only
Thanks in advance
I would say so 🙂 Thank you! sorry for the late reply 🙂 did you get a chance to try this?
Yekka, this was great. Tried it yesterday and was awesome. Thanks 😀
Thank you Bhavani 🙂
hi,
should we multiply by 4 for every quatity if using 1kg of chicken
Yes, Surya !!! 🙂 let me know how it turns out!
I made this for lunch today, it turned out to be amazing! Thank you!
Adding yogurt worked out well. Great tip” don’t add water to the chicken” Thanks 🙂
tried the recipe today and it was a hit! the family loved it. fast n easy. going to be a regular chicken recipe
Tasty recipe.
Regards,
Reshu
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Have tried it for multiple times now! Always Turns out to be awesome
Made chicken curry years ago with two grad student friends from Kerala state and Madras. It was very similar, but used a whole chicken with bone in and water plus cnned tomatos. Still came out wonderful. We ate it with rice tossed with sauteed slivered almonds and sultanas, dirzzled with lime juice. I’ll try ths recipe in memory of those lovely friends. One of them wound up as vice chancellor of a south India university–don’t remember which one. I find that most chicken curry recipes include coconut milk which makes a very different dish.
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