Saturday, September 15, 2007

Coconut milk with chicken

Ingredients:

Cut one medium sized onion
4 cloves of garlic
One piece of ginger - peeled and cut
5 small green chilly
3 strands of coriander (dhania)
One small tomato
2 cups of coconut milk
salt to taste
some whole garam masala (jeera, dhania, longh, daalchini, star-fal)

Cooking Instructions:

1. Clean chicken and keep seperately. Sprinkle salt and pepper.
2. Put the veggies (not coconut milk) stated above in the mixer and make a puree.
3. Roast the whole garam masala and make it into a powder in a mixie. You can use any chicken masala or your own garam masala.
4. In a karahi, add 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil.
5. Once the karahi is hot, put the puree; add haldi powder and fry till the puree becomes a fried and light brown paste, so that the water from the puree vaporizes.
6. Put the paste (masala) aside.
7. Now add 3 spoons of oil to the karahi and fry the chicken. Fry for around 7-8 minutes. put the garam masala and the paste prepared in step 5.
8. Turn the chicken periodically till you find the chicken half cooked.
9. Dilute the coconut milk with water if u think the milk is too think....I thought, and added water to make it bit light.
9. Now add the salt, coconut milk to the curry, and boil for about 7 minutes.
10. By now the curry would be near to boil.
11. Remove the karahi from the stove, and garnish with coriander.

Serve with rice. Enjoy !