Recipe: Yummy Odia style Chicken aloo curry

Odia style Chicken aloo curry. It is pretty easy and a good recipe. Chicken Curry is probably one of the most googled recipe. Everybody has a version of his/her own.

A bowl of chicken curry and a plate of steam rice can become your soul food. #ଓଡିଆ ଚିକେନ ଆଳୁ ତରକାରୀ#Odia chicken potato curry/How to make chiken curry? When the curry is almost done, prepare the cilantro. Once in blue moon, Mukti dada used to cook a similar curry with a tempering of Panch Phoron! You can have Odia style Chicken aloo curry using 28 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Odia style Chicken aloo curry

It's of ingredients for marination.
It's 700 gm of chicken.
Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
You need 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of red chilli powder.
Prepare 1 tbsp of oil.
Prepare of Ingredients for curry.
Prepare 2 of potatoes (fried slightly).
You need 4-5 tbsp of mustard oil / Refine oil.
You need 1/2 tsp of sugar.
Prepare 3 of green cardamoms.
You need 4-5 of black pepper corns.
It's 1 of bay leaf.
You need 2 of cloves.
You need 1/2 tsp of cumin seeds.
It's 2 of finely chopped onion.
It's 2 of green chilli.
It's 1 of bay leaf.
It's 2 tbsp of ginger garlic paste.
Prepare 1 tsp of turmeric powder.
It's 2 tsp of red chilli powder.
It's 1 tsp of garam masala powder.
Prepare 1 tsp of chicken masala powder.
Prepare 2 of finely chopped tomatoes.
It's 1 tsp of coriander powder.
It's 1 tsp of cumin powder.
You need 2 tsp of chopped coriander leaves.
It's to taste of salt.

Back then, I was not much bothered about the use of Panch Phoron; I only was bothered about the potato with skin. I always liked the potato with skin as part of the mutton curry and the curry Mukti dada used to make was brilliant. My other family members also praise Chicken Aloo Curry Pakistani Food Recipe especially when I made it, so consider it the secret recipe that I am about to share with the World. To me, cooking is an art, and artistic eyes see things in a different way.

Odia style Chicken aloo curry instructions

First wash chicken properly and marinate with salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder & oil. Keep aside for at least 1 hr..
Fry 2 potatoes till light brown..
Take another pan add mustard oil/ refine oil. When oil got heat add sugar. When sugar starts to melt and colour changes, add all the whole spices(bay leaf, cumin seed, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, black pepper). Fry for sometime..
Ads finely chopped onion, sliced green chili,cook till onion turns to golden brown..
Then add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder& red chilli powder. Fry masala until raw smell of ginger garlic goes away..
To the cooked masala, add finely chopped tomatoes, with salt, garam masala powder, coriander powder & cumin powder.Mix well & cook until tomatoes becomes tender. If required add some water to avoid burning of the masala.
After oil separates from the masala, add marinated chicken and required salt and saute..
Cover and cook chicken in it's own juices for 10-15 minutes..
When the juices dry up add fried potatoes saute for 1 min. Then add hot water (as per gravy).
Cover it and cook for another 10-15 minutes..
After 15 check the potatoes and chicken, then add chicken masala powder & chopped coriander leaves. Cook for another 1-2 minutes.
Goes well with Steamed rice, roti or paratha.

Eating is a necessity but cooking is an art. Now, let's begin with our Chicken Aloo recipe. Odisha chicken curry is very different from rest chicken curry in the way we don't use too much oil nor use any kind of coconut products or coconut oil to prepare. Chicken curry is different in the sense we Odia people use masala and other ingredients which I am going to explain down. Check whether potato & chicken are properly cooked.