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Kerala chicken Masala

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Chicken curry with coconut oil and spices. Simple but full of flavour. 

If you want to have some protein based Indian dinner, this is one recipe which is handy.  The key is coconut oil and Kashmiri chilli. So, do not skip.

Other favorite chicken recipes: Kerala Style Chicken Fry, Madras Chicken curry.

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Serving Size:
2 cups
Time:
30 minutes
Difficulty:
Easy

Ingredients

  • To blend:
    • Kashmiri red chilli – 5
    • Whole black Pepper – 10
    • Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
    • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
  • Masala
    • Coconut Oil – 2.5 tbsp
    • Curry Leaves – 6-7
    • Red Onion – 1 cup, finely chopped
    • Tomato – 1 small – finely chopped
    • Garlic – 5, finely chopped
    • Ginger – 1 inch, finely chopped
    • Salt – 2 tsp
    • Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp
    • Green chilli – 2, slit
    • Chicken – 500 gas, with bone
    • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped finely

Directions

  1. In a pan, sauté Kashmiri red chilli, black pepper, cumin seeds and fennel seeds in a medium heat for 6-8 mins. Keep aside and blend into fine paste.
  2. In a pan, add coconut oil, curry leaves, red onion, garlic, ginger and 1 tsp salt.
  3. Sauté for 5 minutes until translucent.
  4. Add tomatoes, turmeric powder and sauté for few minutes.
  5. Then add the paste from step 1 with chicken and 1 tsp salt. Mix well and add 1/2 cup of water.
  6. Close the lid and in medium heat cook for 11 minutes.
  7. Then open the lid, add green chillies and sauté for 2-3 minutes.
  8. Finally add the coriander leaves and switch off.

Paneer Chatpata Curry

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Paneer Chatpata
Sour sweet spicy tangy paneer (Indian cottage cheese) curry!

 

People ask me how on earth you have so much time and energy to cook?

Answer: I started learning to cook for a loved one and now cooking is my therapy. It really helps my mood and life. Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you HAPPY!  Enough of my gyan and here you go with the recipe!

Made this few weeks back and I had this with homemade naan and jeera rice made by my mom. I really loved the combo. Made some triveti dal too. This paneer  chatpata is one quick recipe you can make any day. Chatpata means when you put this into your mouth, you can feel hot, sweet, spicy, tangy, sour taste with the paneer.

Other Paneer favorite recipes:

paneer thali

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Paneer Chatpata Curry
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
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Serves: 5
 
Ingredients
  • • 300 gms - Paneer Cubes
  • • 2 tbsp – Paneer crumbs
  • • 1 tbsp - Oil
  • • 2.5 tbsp – Ghee
  • Onion Paste:
  • • 1 – Onion, chopped finely
  • • 3 – Green chilli, Chopped finely
  • • 4 – Garlic , chopped finely
  • • 1 inch – Ginger, chopped finely
  • • 1 tsp – cumin seeds
  • • 1 – bay leef
  • • 2 – cloves
  • • 2 - green Cardamom
  • Curry:
  • • 1 tsp - Turmeric powder
  • • 6 tbsp – tomato paste or 2.5 tomatoes blended into puree.
  • • 1 tsp – Coriander powder
  • • 1 tsp – Cumin Powder
  • • 1 tsp – Chaat masala powder
  • • 1 tsp - Kashmiri Chilli powder
  • • ¼ tsp – Mango (Amchur) powder
  • • ½ tsp – Kasuri Methi (Dry Fenugreek leaves)
  • • 3 tsp – Salt
  • • ½ cup – water
  • • ½ tsp - sugar
  • • 1 tsp – lemon juice
  • • 1 tsp – coriander leaves, chopped finely.
  • • 2 green chillies sauté in a tsp of oil for garnish.(optional
Instructions
  1. PANEER ROAST:
  2. Heat a pan, add butter to it in a medium to low flame, add the paneer cubes to it and roast it until its golden brown both sides. Put them in cold water, this will help them to be soft.

  3. ONION PASTE:
  4. Add the chopped onion, green chilli, garlic and ginger with a bit of salt in a blender and blend them into a fine paste.

  5. CURRY:
  6. Add ghee in a pan with cumin seeds, bay leaf, cloves and cardamom. Then add the onion paste, turmeric powder and sauté for 3 minutes.

  7. Add the tomato paste with coriander powder, cumin powder, chaat masala powder, chilli powder, and mango powder with the salt.

  8. After sautéing for 5 minutes, add ½ cup of water and keep it low heat for 5 minutes.

  9. Now add the roasted paneer,sugar and dry fenugreek leaves.

  10. Let it simmer for 10 minutes.
  11. Now open it and check salt (add salt if you need more). Switch off. Add chopped coriander leaves, crumbled paneer, greenchillies(sauted in oil) and lime juice to garnish.

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Madurai Chicken curry/kuzhambu

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Madurai ChickenCurryThis curry is high on flavor and prepared with freshly ground spices. Taste great with parotta or plain rice. This is a famous south Indian recipe. Madurai is a major city in Tamilnadu, India. I have to mention it is totally famous for chicken curry and spicy food.

I used to live in Madurai with my parents from 3rd grade to 6th grade. Nostalgic! Those were one of the happy days of my life. I had zero worries about anything. I guess the biggest worry I had for the week is that I should get my favorite sambar vadai from a restaurant that we used to go every Saturday.haha! My dad used to take us to the temple (famous meenakshi Amman temple) and then to restaurant every Saturday. I used to dream about what to eat when I go to restaurant 😀 when I was in temple most times rather than praying! I was a kid 😀 😉 blaming on my age 😀 hahhaa! It’s a beautiful city in Tamilnadu, everyone should visit it atleast once.

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I made this chicken curry on a Sunday afternoon and my whole house smelled with flavors. You can use chicken with bone or boneless too. It’s always good when the meat dishes are spicy. You will start liking it that way if you start having it that way. However if you are making it for the first time, try to taste as you make to adjust to your spice level. I would say do not skip any ingredient in this, each of it gives unique taste to this. I usually don’t insist so because I usually advise to cook with whatever we have at our house. But pepper, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds and curry leaves are star ingredients in this. So, if you skip any one of it, it will make a great difference.

Taste great with just plain rice or Indian breads like paratha , parotta or roti.

5.0 from 5 reviews
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Madurai Chicken curry
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
 
Ingredients
  • • Chicken - 500gm
  • • Onion - 1 cup, 1 finely chopped
  • • Tomato - 1 cup, 1 finely chopped
  • • Ginger garlic paste – ½ tbsp
  • • Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
  • • Oil - 3 tbsp
  • • Salt - as needed
  • • Curry leaves – 10

    To Roast and grind:
  • • Pepper - 1 tsp
  • • Cinnamon – 1’’ stick
  • • Cloves – 3
  • • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Dry red chillies - 6
  • • Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Raw rice – 1 tbsp
  • • Roasted gram dal/ pottukadalai – 1 tsp
  • • Coconut – 2 tsp
Instructions
  1. • Dry roast the ingredient under "to roast & grind" each one of it Grind them together and keep it aside.
  2. • In a pan, heat oil, add onion, curry leaves little salt and sauté till golden brown. And then add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute.
  3. • Now add tomato and fry till its mushy and raw smell leaves. Add the turmeric, and sauté well.
  4. • Now add chicken, blended spices and stir well till the chicken is well blended with the spices. Add salt as per your taste.
  5. • Don’t add water. Keep it in medium and close the lid. It will take around ten minutes for it to cook well. Don’t add more water, it may make it rubbery. Chicken will ooze some water already.
  6. • Open, taste and adjust salt and spice level. (Check spice level as you add it, your spice level may differ)
  7. • Keep it closed in medium - low heat for another 6-8 minutes.
  8. • Add chopped coriander leaves and switch it off.
Notes
1. This is a spicy curry. If you want it dry, leave it for another 5-10 minutes to make it a roast.
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Chilli Kothu parotta

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The most banginest South Indian street food, prepared to perfection at home!

You’ve heard about parotta Right? If not I have a post on how to do parotta at home. It is an Indian layered bread. Kothu means chopped. You get readymade parotta these days in freezer section. You can use that as well. I had chilli kothu parotta only when I did my bachelors. 😀 stupid me! I never felt like tasting it. But when I tasted it, I was totally in love with that! I had it then once in a while. After coming to Canada, I made a chicken egg kothu parotta for my friends- roommates! They liked it 😀 then I started doing it frequently and it has never put me down. I use the leftovers curry and parotta, and eggs and make it real quick. Sometimes I use readymade parotta and do this. Later I started doing this veggie version of kothu parotta for me and I really loved it! Who will not love it 😉 when it has all spices, parotta and curry together in one plate?

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It is a popular street food from India. I have never tasted it from streets though 😉 as my parents were very cautious that it would be bad for my health. But I have seen a lot of times how they prepare it. They make it so quick and just by seeing the way it is made; you would want to prepare it. You can always use scissors or knife to chop them into triangle pieces, but the authentic way of making it is by placing few parottas together and tearing them into small pieces. I loved making these and clicking pictures if it. I used my Shimla Mirch ka salan curry, you can use any curries like mirch ka salan, mushroom curry or malai methi paneer or for a meat recipe use pepper chicken curry,lamb curry.

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Chilli Kothu parotta / Curried Shredded Indian flatbread
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
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Total time: 
Serves: 3 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Fresh Parotta – 5
  • Onions – 6, large thinly sliced
  • Tomato – 2, chopped finely
  • Bell pepper/ capsicum- 2, diced, I used coloured ones
  • Green chillies – 3, cho[[ed finely
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
  • Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder – ½ tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – ¾ tsp
  • Pepper powder – ½ tsp
  • Oil – 4 tbsp
  • Salt – 2 tbsp
  • Curry – 1 cup
    [To garnish:]
  • Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp
  • Garam masala – 1 tsp
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
Instructions
  1. Cut parotta into pieces or just tear them into pieces as shown in pictures.
  2. Heat oil on a medium flame, add onions, and sauté the onions for several minutes.
  3. Once the onions start turning to golden brown, add the chillies and ginger garlic paste and cook for a few minutes.
  4. Now add tomato, bell pepper and turmeric powder and sauté till the raw smell goes from tomato and it turns mushy.
  5. Add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, pepper powder and salt, sauté till the raw smell leaves.
  6. Add the chopped parotta and mix well into the mixture.
  7. Now add the curry and mix well.
  8. The contents should be minced now, so use a sharp end of a flat spatula or a stainless steel bowl. Do remember that ends should be sharp. Use a pounding action using the end of a flat spatula and mince it.
  9. Cook on a medium flame for 3-4 minutes and toss the contents well.
  10. Add chopped coriander leaves, garam masala, lemon juice and mix well. Turn off flame.
Notes
1. Once the parotta has been added, cook or work quickly to finish the dish to make sure the parotta fluffy and soft.

2. You can use any curry for this recipe, to make it chicken kothu parotta, add chicken curry and egg to it it.
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 Serve this plain or with raitas like carrot ginger raita or tomato garlic raita.

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