Simple Kadai chicken with step by step pictures. This delicious chicken dish which has freshly roasted spice.
Kadai Chicken
Kadai chicken is my favorite dish.This recipe is from Showmethecurry.com..It is a little dry dish. The chicken in this dish is cooked in its own juices. The original recipe calls for cream but I used milk, milk is always a good substitute for cream. don’t forget to add capsicum because it gives a unique colour and flavour to this dish. Usually every kadai food like kadai paneer, kadai potato, vegetable has one common ingredient that is this capsicum.
You don’t need any powdered spices, here the spices are freshly toasted and ground that gives a wonderful taste. I served this kadai chicken with Shahi Pulav(recipe coming soon). So please make this and leave comments.
📖 Recipe

Kadai Chicken Recipe
Ingredients
- Chicken-1 kg
- Onion-2 large sliced
- Tomato-2 chopped
- Capsicum-1 chopped
- Green chilli-2
- Ginger Garlic paste-1 tblspn
- Garam masala powder-2 tsp
- Dry Red chilli kanja milagai-7
- Coriander seeds kotha malli-3 tblspn
- Milk or cream-1 cup
- Oil-1 tblspn
- Salt to taste
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
- Ginger- julienned for garnishing
Instructions
- In an oil less frying pan,add dry red chilli and coriander seeds and fry till it is nicely toasted.Remove it from the pan..let it cool down then grind it into a powder.
- In a kadai add oil and heat it up,then add in onions and stir well.Cook until golden brown.
- Add in tomatoes and green chilli and cook untill the tomato is mushy.
- Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.Now put in the powdered spice and mix well.
- Add in the chicken pieces,Season with salt and stir well.
- Cook for 20-25 mins until the chicken is cooked.Throw the capsicum in.
- Add in the garam masala powder and mix well.Now pour in the milk..
- Garnish with coriander leaves and julienned ginger pieces.Serve hot with rice or anything.
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Kadai Chicken Step by Step
Ushnish Ghosh
Dear Aarthi
Good luck for me that I could open the blog but the pictures did not open as usual due to very slow connection. :-(.
Very nice recipe! I like the use of roasted coriander powder, never tried this before. Must try at 1st opportunity. Have a nice weekend
Red Scintilla
Can we use the MILK PACK cream as a substitue for fresh cream ?
Red Scintilla
Can we use the MILK PACK cream as a substitue for fresh cream ?
Red Scintilla
Hey can we used milk pack cream as a substitute for fresh cream ?
Aarthi
@Red ScintillaYes you can use..
PC
Hi Aarthi,
Thank you for posting this recipe. I just tried this recipe (kadai chicken) for lunch and it came out really nicely. I live in the UK and have been following your blog for quite a while now. Thought I'd just drop a note and say how great your recipes are. I would have never thought of adding milk, I do use cream but I felt it was too rich for most recipes. This was just perfect.
MANPRIT SINGH
Lovely dish
Anonymous
Its a wonderful recipe , it came out really well. Thank you !
chowringhee
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Ash
Hello Aarthi, I've been trying few recipes from your blog and all of them have turned out super tasty incuding kadai chicken. Love your blog.. Keep up the good work.
Clarie
Aarthi I must admin you really have a good taste of choice. I really liked the way you have taken care of your spices I will surely approach you next time.
Richa
Can I use paneer in this dish
Instead of chicken