Spice coated chicken cooked and slow roasted in the hot pan scraping up the juices.
This is one of the easy and delicious ways of preparing chicken in Indian style. It is very simple and straight forward. This recipe is very easy to make, it took me 40 minutes totally with chopping. It taste great with rice,biryani, roti, paratha or even with dosa, idli.
I made this for my friend Kripa for her birthday two weeks back with lamb Biryani and mixed vegetable garlic raita. She liked it a lot 🙂 Cooking gives happiness when you prepare it for someone. Birthdays are always special to me 🙂 that is a kid typing from inside. 😉 I usually prefer to cook with drumsticks than chicken breast. I feel sometimes if the chicken breast is not good, it gets rubbery. Even though I am a vegetarian, I do have my own craving to cook chicken or lamb for my close one. It totally makes me happy.
I make different styles of chicken each time; I usually tend not to make the same recipe again and again. There are so many recipes to try, why to waste on that. We have thousands of recipes to try in every cuisine. Few comfort foods are the ones I try always. But these days, I am trying to even change that.
My other chicken recipes: chicken 65, Spicy chicken roast, pepper chicken curry, sweet and spicy garlic chicken drumsticks, spicy chicken egg fry noodles, Home style spicy chicken roast, butter chicken roast
- • Chicken Drumsticks - 6
- • Oil – 2 tbsp
- • Curry leaves – 1 spring
- • Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1 tsp
- • Coconut – 2 tbsp, grated or desiccated coconut
- • Onions – 2, medium, sliced finely
- • Tomatoes – 1, medium, chopped finely
- • Green Chillies – 2, sliced
- • Garlic – 5, chopped finely
- • Ginger – 1 inch, chopped finely
- • Turmeric powder – a pinch
- • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
- • Coriander powder – 1tbsp
- • Fennel powder – 1 tsp ( I crushed some fennel seeds and added)
- • Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
- • Garam Masala Powder – 1 tsp
- • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped, for garnish
- • Salt – as needed
- Take a pan and oil in medium flame, cumin seeds and when their color changes, add cumin seed. When it turns brown, add onions, garlic, ginger, green chillies and curry leaves.
- After the onion is sautéed, add tomato, turmeric powder, keep stirring and make sure it sautéed well for a minute.
- Add the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, garam masala powder and sauté well till it oozes out oil.
- Add the coconut and sauté well.
- Add the chicken and mix well.
- Close it with the lid , keep it in medium to low flame and add 2 tbsp of water. Let the chicken cook from the water that chicken oozes out.
- Once it is almost 90% done till the chicken is dry and roasted. Keep the vessel open and not close it with lid now.
- When it is perfectly roasted, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Taste great with lamb biryani/ egg biryani, fish curry or simple rasam/sambar.
I am a huge fan of Indian recipes and food in general! I will 100% try these this summer! Since I make my own chicken wings with left over “scrap” from butchering whole chicken..this recipe will fit in well with my weekly meal prep.!
These look amazing! I most definitely will attempt making them as the flavour profile of ingredients are top notch.
Love the combination of spices and flavours you’ve used here… it totally sounds like the kind of curry I’d like to have for my birthday. What a lucky friend you have!
Can I use ginger garlic paste instead of garlic and ginger?
Yes aarthi. You can always use them 🙂 Or grind fresh ginger garlic for the fresh flavor.
I can take the spices just looking at this!!! YUM YUM YUM!
These look so good! So nice to have access to such authentic Indian recipes since I adore Indian food. Thanks for posting.
thank you so much 🙂
The dish looks amazing! I just need to get some of these spices so I can recreate the dish.
thank you so much 🙂
This sounds like such a flavourful recipe – I love the combination of spices! I do have a question as I was reading through the recipe, step 4 calls for adding coconut, but I don’t see it in the ingredient list? Thanks!
hello louisa, i do see it in ingredients list.
Tried this today and it was awesome.
Thank you so much 🙂
This recipe looks like exactly what I have been looking for!
I have 1 question though.. should the chicken legs be marinated or directly added into the pan? Marination hadn’t been mentioned in the recipe.. so just wanna double check before I try it today!😊
Hello Sumangaly, you have a beautiful name 🙂
and no marination 🙂
Thank you😄
Sounds good!
I tried your recipe today and it’s delicious and was so easy to make !
Thank you olivia 🙂 yay!! Glad you liked it!!!
Hello, I just found your website and tried this recipe. It was fast and easy and my husband loved it. I will be trying some of your other recipes on your site. Thank you for sharing!
-Priya
I tried… And it turned out so delicious… Thank you….
I tried this recipe and it was so delicious that I’ve been making it frequently after that. Thanks a lot! 😄
Excellent recipe! Made it for the first time and was easy to make. Only cumin powder not listed in ingredients.but said add with other spices .