Traditional Chicken Curry Without Coconut Recipe / Kozhi kuzhambu Recipe

Traditional Chicken Curry is an easy curry flavored with spices. It is so delicious, simple and goes well with chapati, idly, dosa, appam , idiyappam, any rice variants or indian breads. Lets see the preparation

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1 kg (cleaned properly with turmeric n rock salt)
Onion - 5 big size ( finely sliced)
Shallots - 12 (chopped)
Tomato - 3 ( sliced)
Ginger - 3 inches
Garlic - 6 pods
Green chilly - 6
Curry leaves - 3 string
Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Whole pepper - 1 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilly Powder - 1 tbsp
Coriander Powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Sesame Oil - 3 tbsp

Method :

Heat a small pan with 1 tsp of oil. Add n fry shallots,1 string of Curry leaves, ginger, garlic, pepper, fennel seeds for 2 minutes. keep it aside. Once cools down. Add this spices in a blender n grind into a fine paste.

Heat a heavy bottomed pan with remaining oil. Add sliced onion, green chilly n saute it for 5 minutes in medium flame.

Add turmeric powder, red chilly powder, coriander powder....stir it well for a minute.

Add tomatoes n saute it until oil separates.  Add cleaned chicken pieces n saute into the gravy for 10 minutes in a medium flame.

Now chicken will be soft roasted with gravy. Add the grounded spices into the chicken gravy with 1 cup of hot water.

Bring to boil n cook the chicken curry for 10 minutes in a medium flame.

Now add the curry leaves n garam masala over the chicken curry. Reduce the flame to lower and close the lid n cook for 5 minutes.

Delicious traditional Chicken Curry is ready to eat.

Serve with Ghee Rice, chapati, paratha, Idly, dosa, appam , idiyappam, any rice variants.

Love Cook Joy.