Spicy and flavourful chicken curry or kuzhambu recipe which is perfect to enjoy with some hot rice or some rotis. It can be had with appam, idiappam and parota too.
Chicken Curry Recipe
Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe - Easy Chicken Curry Recipe with step wise pictures.
Spicy and flavourful chicken curry or kuzhambu recipe which is perfect to enjoy with some hot rice or some rotis. It can be had with appam, idiappam and parota too.
This kuzhambu is a basic recipe which can be enjoyed with many of your main dishes. I make this often for lunch and it taste so delicious with plain rice.
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Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.
📖 Recipe
Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe | Chicken Curry Recipe
Ingredients
- Chicken - 500 grams with bones in
- Coconut Oil - 4 tblsp
- Fennel seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 1 tsp
- Cinnamon / Pattai - 1 stick
- Cardamom / Yelakai - 5 crushed
- Bay Leaf - 1
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tsp
- Curry leaves - 2 sprigs
- Onion - 1 large chopped finely
- Shallots / Sambar Onion - 12 peeled whole
- Tomatoes - 2 chopped finely
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblsp
- Chilli Powder - 1 tblsp
- Coriander Powder - 1.5 tblsp
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
- Garam masala powder
- Salt to taste
- Water as needed
- Coriander leaves a small handful chopped finely
FOR GRINDING:
- Coconut - 1 cup
- Fried Gram Dal / Pottu Kadalai - 1 tblsp
- Black Pepper - 1 tsp
- Fennel seeds / Sombu / Saunf - 2 tsp
Instructions
- Grind the ingredients given together to a very fine paste. Set aside.
- Take oil in a pressure cooker, add in whole spices and curry leaves.
- Add in onions and shallots and cook for 5 mins.
- Add ginger garlic paste and cook for 2 mins.
- Add tomatoes and cook till it is soften.
- Add in spice powders and salt and mix well.
- Add chicken and toss well.
- Add little water, cover the cooker with a lid and pressure cook for 2 whistle, simmer the flame for 10 mins.Open the cooker once pressure is released.
- Add more water and the coconut masala.
- Simmer till oil floats on top.
- Add coriander leaves.
- Serve
Video
Version 1 : Chicken Kulambu Recipe
1)First grind the masala. Take coconut, roasted gram dal (pottu kadalai), black pepper, fennel seeds in a blender
2)Puree fine, Set that aside.
3)In a pressure cooker, heat oil. Add in cardamom, fennel seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon stick and bay leaf
4)Add in curry leaves
5)Add in chopped onions and shallots
6)Saute for 5 min.
7)Add ginger garlic paste
8)Saute them for couple of mins.
9)Add in chopped tomatoes
10)Cook till tomatoes soften
11)Add in coriander powder,garam masala powder and chilli powder
12)Add turmeric powder as well.
13)Mix well
14)Add chicken pieces
15)Mix well in the masala
16)Add in salt to taste
17)Add little water
18)Cover and cook till chicken is done. Cook for 2 whistle, then lower the flame and cook for 10 mins. Turn off the heat.
19)Open the cooker, add coconut masala
20)Mix well
21)Simmer for 10 mins till oil separates
22)Serve
Version 2: Chicken Kulambu Recipe
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.
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
Chicken Kulambu Preparation
- 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.
- tomatoes goes in 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:
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| take chicken, salt, turmeric powder in a pressure cooker |
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| Serve |
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Jeni Jeni
Awesome recipe.. Tried it twice.. Got applause from family both times 😁
Anita
Can I use sesame oil or sunflower oil instead of coconut oil?
Ashvini
Superb recipe!!!! Every 1 loved it!! Thank you