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Basic Chicken Curry Recipe – Nattu Kozhi Kuzhambu Recipe

January 10, 2017 By Aarthi Leave a Comment

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Over the years i have shared so many chicken curry recipes on this blog. This one is a very basic chicken curry which i make often in my home. It is very easy to make and taste just yum. I used Nattu kozhi (country chicken) to make this curry and it turns out to be delicious.

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This curry can be served with rice, roti, idli or dosa as well.

Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you..

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Cooking Time : 1 hour
Serves: 5 to 6


Ingredients:

Chicken – 1 kg ( I used nattu kozhi)
Salt to taste
Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi – 1 tsp

For Curry:
Oil – 3 tblspn
Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam – 1 tsp
Cinnamon / Pattai – 2 small stick
Cardamom – 6 to 8
Cloves – 6 to 8
Fennel Seeds / Sombu / Saunf – 1 tsp
Mace – 1 piece
Bay Leaf or Pandan Leaf – 1
Shallots / Sambar Onion – 20 chopped
Tomatoes -3 large chopped
Green Chilli – 3 slit
Curry leaves a handful
Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tblspn
Chilli Powder – 1 tblspn
Coriander Powder – 3 tblspn
Garam Masala Powder – 1 tblspn
Coconut – 1 cup grated
Coriander leaves a handful chopped finely
Curry leaves a handful


Method:

Take cleaned chicken, salt, turmeric in a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 2 to 3 whistle for normal chicken and for nattu kozhi cook for 6 whistle and simmer for 10 to 15 mins. Turn off the heat and let the steam go all by itself. Open the cooker and set aside.

Grind coconut into a fine paste.

Heat oil in a pan, add all whole spices and pandan leaf if using. Mix well.

Add in shallots, curry leaves, green chillies and mix well.

Add in tomatoes and cook that till it gets mushy.

Add in ginger garlic paste and mix that well as well.

Now add in spice powders and mix well.

Add the cooked chicken along with juices and mix well.

Add in salt and coconut paste and mix well.

Simmer this for 15 mins till oil separates on top.

Add coriander leaves, curry leaves and mix well.

Serve with rice.


Pictorial:

take chicken, salt, turmeric powder in a pressure cooker
cook till done
prepare your other ingredients
take coconut in a blender
make it into a fine puree
heat oil in a kadai, add whole spices
add shallots, chillies and curry leaves
mix well..I added some pandan leaf too..this is optional
add tomatoes
add ginger garlic paste
cook till tomatoes turn mushy
add spice powder
mix well
add cooked chicken with the juices
mix well
add coconut paste
mix well and simmer till oil floats on top
just like this
add some curry leaves and coriander leaves
mix well
Serve

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Filed Under: Chicken Recipes, Country Chicken Recipes, Kulambu, Non Veg, Recent Recipes, Side dishes for Idiyappam, Side dishes with Aapam, Sidedish for Chapati, Sidedish for Dosa, Sidedish for Idly

About Aarthi

Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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