Chicken is marinated & cooked with the coconut and butter till the pieces are juicy, flavorful & roasted outside. It is simple, spicy and succulent. This is such an easy dish, yet so delicious and flavorful.
I usually add coconut to chicken finally and cook in many of my chicken curry recipes. But this one I cooked the chicken in butter and coconut. When you wanted to make a dry side dish with chicken, you might be guilty to make chicken 65 always which is fried. So, this one taste like it is been fried but it is not. I made this with ghee rice and fish curry.
I made this for the weekend for my friends when they came home. I made this a lot of recipes so you could have guessed how easy it is to make. I would say it is the easiest recipe of all my chicken recipes yet tasty.
I used ghee (Indian clarified butter) here. But you can use unsalted butter also. I have tried that once too.
My other chicken recipes: chicken 65, Spicy chicken roast, pepper chicken curry, sweet and spicy garlic chicken drumsticks, spicy chicken egg fry noodles
- Chicken – 500 grams, bite sized pieces, cleaned and washed
- Butter/ Ghee (clarified butter) – 2 tbsp
- Curry leaves – 1 spring
- Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1 tsp
- Coconut – 2 tbsp, grated or desiccated coconut
- Shallot – 10, chopped finely
- Green Chillies – 2
- Garlic ginger paste – ½ tbsp
- Turmeric powder – a pinch
- Pepper powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1tbsp
- Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
- Garam Masala Powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped, for garnish
- Salt – as needed
- Wash chicken and marinate with chilli powder, salt, turmeric, coriander powder and ginger garlic paste. Keep atleast for an hour.
- Now take a pan and add butter or ghee in medium flame, cumin seeds and when their color changes, add shallots, green chillies and curry leaves.
- After the onion is sautéed, add grated coconut and keep stirring and make sure it is not burnt. Now add the marinated chicken.
- Close it with the lid and not need to add water. Let the chicken cook from the water that chicken oozes out.
- Once it is almost 90% done, add pepper powder, garam masala and cook 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.
Innovative dear!Flavorful and delicious. Beautiful presentation!
Thank you 🙂
I like to eat a lot of salads It is a healthy diet.
I made this last night and loved it! I now plan on going through all your recipes and making them. Thanks so much for this site. Keep the food coming!
Thank you Jen :)!!!
This looks really tasty! My husband has me on the hunt for a good curry dish 🙂 I think this might be it!
Thank you so much Chrissie 🙂 let me know how it turns out if you try it!
I can smell your dish from my home, I wish I could taste it!
🙂 thank you so much Helene 🙂
Ooh I can imagine how this one tastes! Adding coconut is a really good idea!
Thank you so much Shareba 🙂
WHAT SORT OF CHILLI POWDER IS USED IN THIS RECIPE , IF ITS HOT CHILLI – 1 TBS WOULD BE A LOT IF ITS HOT.
I WILL TRY SOME OF YOU R RECIPES – THEY SOUND GOOD.NEVER REALLY TRIED SOUTHERN INDIAN COOKING.
Normal chilli powder is what I used. Please adjust according to your spice level.
I love love love this recipe! I think I’ve made it like 10 times before in the past, it’s now a staple in my house. Thank you so much for posting this, the pictures are lovely too 😍👌🏾
Hello. My name is Lohithaksh I have been cooking for past 4 years, at present I am doing my 10th. I am very excited to cook this recipe does this dish have a strong taste of coconut (i know the recipe name says coconut butter chicken) because all my family members don’t like the taste of coconut either do i. would you suggest some other ingredients or another recipe
Sorry…for late reply! This doesn’t have strong coconut taste..You could try it!