A Simple Chicken Curry

Here is how you make tasty, healthy and simple chicken curry at home with simple ingredients.

To start, here are the ingredients:

• Cloves 2
• Bay Leaves 1
• Cardamom 2
• Cinnamon 1 medium stick
• Oil 3 tbsp (preferably extra virgin olive oil)
• Curd (thick yogurt/ cream/ cashew paste would also do) 2 tbsp
• Turmeric 1 tsp
• Coriander powder 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Chicken 750gms
• Ginger Garlic paste 2 tsp
• Onions 3 finely chopped
• Tomato 3-4 blended
• Coriander leaves (for seasoning)
• Ghee (for seasoning)
• Green chili 1
• Dry red chili 1
• Water about 300 ml

The Procedure:

• Take oil in a pan and let it heat. Make sure there is no water in the pan.
• Toss in cloves, bay leaves, cardamom, dry red chili
• One these things have fried a little (you’ll be able to tell when the dry red chili starts to lose a bit of its color), toss in the onions and green chili.
• Let the thing cook till the onions are golden brown in color
• Once this is done, you toss in the ginger garlic paste, and cook the mix till the smell of garlic is completely gone.
• After this stage, add the tomato puree (that you blended), your coriander powder, turmeric, salt to taste, and curd.
• Once this is cooked, and you’ll be able to tell its cooked, when the mixture starts to release oil, drop in the washed pieces of chicken, and stir to cover the chicken pieces with the mixture.
• Let this thing cook for about 20 minutes, and you’ll be able to tell this when the chicken starts to become brown on the outside.
• Add about 300 ml of warm water to the mix, and cover with a lid and let it cook. You can add some coriander and ghee to this if you want to. Wait for another 20 minutes till the chicken is completely cooked. You’ll be able to tell if the chicken is cooked or not, by poking the chicken pieces and seeing how easy it is to pierce it.
• Let it cool to a temperature that is fit for consumption

Bon a petit!