Chicken Curry Recipe
Chicken Curry recipe – This is a delicious homestyle home cooked simple chicken curry recipe cooked using basic Indian pantry staples. A rustic Indian chicken curry cooked in flavourful Indian spices.
One of my all time favourite dishes homestyle chicken curry recipe (indian).. Yes this one!
Give it to me cooked by my mum.. anywhere .. anytime of the day..any number of times….Every Time, I love love it.
You can have this home cooked delicious chicken curry with paranthas, rice, naan , or tandoori roti.. add some onions, chillies, mango pickle, papads (poppadoms) to go with it and you are in heaven!
If you like simple desi chicken recipes and want to have authentic, rustic, flavourful home cooked style chicken curry,something that tastes light and fresh, you should try this delicious chicken curry recipe. This one is my mothers recipe , passed on to her by my grandma and one of the favourite dishes in our family.
Friends or family, whosoever has tasted it, loves my mum’s homestyle home cooked chicken curry.
Chicken curry recipe ingredients and substitutes
I haven’t made any changes to the recipe, as I like it the way it is.
You can try and adjust the spices as per your taste.
It is best cooked with skinless whole chicken , cleaned and cut into small pieces, and using authentic Indian spices.
I added enough water to make good amount of gravy as my husband likes gravy, but I feel it tastes as great ,if you add lesser water and then saute it nicely for some time on high heat.That makes the best sukka chicken (dry chicken roast ).
I cook both the versions, depending, for whom this is being cooked.
This delicious and simple chicken curry needs a good amount of onions and garlic to get that perfect flavour.
Also I use MDH Chicken curry powder, I have tried others but this one tastes best.In India you get many versions of chicken curry powder, but here in UK it is difficult to find many. MDH Chicken curry powder can be bought from any of the Asian stores.
If you have homemade chicken curry powder, that is the best option and you can use that.I haven’t tried making the chicken curry powder at home , but am intending to.. soon.. and will let you know when I do.For now , have to make do with the store bought ones.
So let’s get cooking our favourite indian style chicken curry recipe.
Other chicken recipes are on the blog –butter chicken, cream chicken, grilled chicken and veggies
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Chicken Curry Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp mustard oil/ ghee You can use any cooking oil, but mustard oil or ghee really enhances the flavour of this dish
- 1 kgs With bone, skinless chicken cleaned and cut
- 4-5 medium sized Onions chopped
- 10-12 cloves garlic Roughly chopped
- 1 inch ginger slice (optional) chopped fine
- 3-4 green chillies thinly slices
- 1 medium sized tomato Roughly chopped
- 1 tsp degi mirch powder
- 2 tbsp chicken masala powder
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp red chilli powder you can adjust the qty to suit your taste
- 1 tsp haldi powder (turmeric powder)
- 1 tsp dried fenugreek leaves/Kasuri methi crushed
- 2 cups water or less depending on what consistency of gravy you want
- few sprigs coriander For garnishing
Instructions
- Make puree of roughly chopped tomato and garlic cloves, and keep aside. This will be used later in the recipe.
- In a pan / Kadai heat oil. If you are using mustard oil ,heat it till it reaches the smoking point.If using ghee or any other cooking oil heat it as you would regularly do.
- Add chopped onions, and saute them nicely till they are light brown.
- If using ginger, add it at this point and sauté till the raw ginger aroma goes away.
- Add degi mirch powder , mix it well with the onions and ginger.
- Add chicken pieces and mix onions and chicken well.
- Add salt, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.
- Cook for 8-10 min till the chicken turns white and is partially cooked.
- Now add the tomato and garlic puree.Mix it well.
- Add Chicken masala powder.Add water. Cover it and let it simmer for 10 min.
- Once chicken is cooked and you have the desired consistency for the gravy, add the crushed dried fenugreek leaves and mix them well.
- Garnish it will coriander and slit chillies.Serve hot with Roti’s or paranthas.
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Hey Anu.. thanks for sharing this recipe.. I am going to try this recipe and will share my feedback soon.. one request ,can you please share some recipes for kid’s lunch packs?
Thanks and loads of love,
Nitin
Hey Shalu.. How r u?
Will await your feedback.Yes will surely share some kids lunch recipes soon.
Thats the area where I struggle everyday with the question”what to pack today?”
But I’m trying to work on it:)
Wow. thanks