Recipe: Appetizing Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry

Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry. Add chicken and enough water to barely cover the chicken. Kerala Style Easy Chicken Curry is a traditional spicy delicacy with an outstanding flavor of cardamom. The fresh cardamom flavor from God's own country makes the dish simply exquisite.

I am complete novice to cooking and using this recipe my first ever chicken curry came out great !! Cant wait to impress my wife when she gets back from India. So for easy & fast cooking, I use the pressure cooker as my husband and daughter likes very well cooked chicken. You can have Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry using 24 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry

It's 2-3 lbs of Free range organic whole chicken - skinless ,cut into medium size pieces.
It's of Curry leaves few strands (or handful of leaves).
Prepare 2 of medium size purple onions - chopped into fine pieces.
It's 2 of large tomatoes- cut into fine pieces.
It's of Extra virgin coconut oil required for cooking.
You need 3-4 of green chillies chopped vertically.
You need 1 cup of cilantro leaves - chopped.
You need 1 1/2-2 cups of coconut milk (another option - take 1 cup of shredded coconut and grind it into fine paste in mixer and use).
You need 1 tbsp of ginger paste (around 2'' piece).
Prepare 1 tbsp of garlic paste (around 4-5 nos).
You need 2 tsp of vinegar.
You need to taste of salt.
You need of For Masala :.
Prepare 5-8 of Dried red chilli (add more or less depending on spice level).
Prepare 10 of Black peppercorns.
You need 3-4 tbsp of coriander seeds.
You need 3-4 of cardamom pods.
You need 3-4 of cloves.
It's 2 of bay leaves.
Prepare 1 tsp of Fennel seeds.
You need 2 of small sticks cinnamon (or 1/2 tsp if using powder).
It's 2-3 strands of curry leaves.
It's 4-5 of pearl onions - peeled and chopped into two halves.
You need 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder.

Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Jump to Video. I otherwise call this Red Chicken Curry for it's brilliant red gravy. Chicken curry well flavored with spices. This recipe is my evolved kind of nadan chicken curry.

Kerala Style Spicy Chicken Curry instructions

In a pan pour 1 tbsp of coconut oil and wait till the oil becomes hot. Next, fry all the items mentioned under masala section till the nice aroma of masala comes. Turn off the heat and wait for the mixture to cool down before you grind it into a thick paste (add some water for grinding). Keep this masala paste aside.
In a cooking dish add few teaspoons of coconut oil required to fry the chopped onions. Wait till onion changes color. Then add salt as required..
Next add ginger-garlic paste, green chillies and fry well. Into this add chopped tomato pieces, few curry leaves and sauté well.
Add vinegar and the previously prepared masala paste and continue to sauté well..
Add chicken pieces into this. Cover the dish and cook for 5 minutes. Now ,add coconut milk/paste and mix well. Allow this to cook for 2 - 5 minutes or till the chicken is cooked. Add hot water if you need more gravy. Finally add chopped cilantro, curry leaves. Mix everything well and bring it to a boil..
Turn off the heat and pour 1/2 tsp coconut oil on the top. Serve hot with rice, roti, puttu, dosa, etc ..

It goes well with pathiri, any sort of rice variants (ghee rice, pulao, normal rice), chapathi, appam or any other Indian breads. It is an easy peasy recipe for kerala chicken curry. Kerala chicken recipe - A simple & delicious dish made by simmering chicken in fresh ground kerala spice powder & coconut milk. Kerala cuisine is well known for its unique flavors, delicious taste & simplicity. This kerala nadan curry is no exception to it.