kadai chicken curry

This is a quick and very easy chicken curry. It doesn't take much of the ingredients and gets done in no time.

Lets take a quick look.

Ingredients:

• Chicken with curry cut- 800 g
• Onion - 2 large, sliced thinly
• Green chillies- 2
• Mix of whole spices(2 cloves, 1 inch cinnamom, 2 green cardamom, 1 bay leaf, 5 pepper cons, a pinch of shahi zeera or cumin seeds-1 tsp)
• Garlic- 1/2 bulb, chopped
• Ginger- 1 inch, chopped
• Coriander powder- 1 Tbsp
• Cumin powder- 1Tsp
• Garam masala powder- 1 Tsp
• Pepper powder- 1 Tsp
• Tomato -1 large, chopped
• Oil- 2 Tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Fresh coriander leaves.

Direction:

• Heat oil in a pan or kadai. Once the oil is nice and hot add the whole spices.
• Now add the green chillies and onion. Saute until onion turns translucent.
• Add the chicken ginger and garlic. Fry for around 5 minutes.
• Now add the powdered spices , salt and fry until oil starts oozing out.
• Now add the chopped tomatoes and fry until tomatoes are done.
• Fry for around next 5 minutes in low heat. Frying adds more flavour to the chicken curry.
• Finally add 1 cup of water and let it simmer for 5 minutes in low heat until you achieve the desired amount of gravy.
• Turn off the heat and then sprinkle freshly chopped coriander.

Enjoy with Idli, chapati, rice or nan. A perfect and easy curry.

Enjoy!!...

By- Sushmita pandit