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CHICKEN KARAHI

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Chicken_Karahi-4Chicken Karahi is traditional spiced tomato based gravy that is arguably the most popular dish in Pakistan (Lahore). Karahi is a circular, thick and deep cooking pot like wok and originally was cooked in that. Karahi is like kadai or chatti in tamil. Lot of people adds onions to bring sweetness to it. There is a difference of opinion on this from me as I cook it with just spices and tomatoes only which brings that rustic color to it.

I like that there are not too many spices involved.

 Serve with hot rice, chicken biryani, ghee rice or Indian bread like naan, roti.

Other favorite chicken dishes : chicken kurma, chicken roast

 

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CHICKEN KARAHI
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • • Chicken – ½ kg, cut into cubes. (Boneless/with bone works)
  • • Oil/Ghee (clarified butter) – ½ cup
  • • Bay leaf – 1
  • • Clove – 1
  • • Cinnamon stick – ½ inch
  • • Green Cardamom – 2
  • • Ginger garlic paste – 1.5 tbsp
  • (or)
  • Garlic – 3, crushed. Ginger – 2 inch, crushed
  • • Tomatoes – 2 (large)
  • • Water – ½ cup
  • • Yogurt – ¼ cup
  • • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • • Coriander cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • • Pepper powder – ½ tsp
  • • Green chillies – 4
  • • Water – 1 cup
  • • Salt – 2 tsp
  • • Garnish:
  • • Cilantro – 2 tbsp, finely chopped
  • • Ginger - 1 inch, Julienne cut
Instructions
  1. HEAT; MEDIUM HIGH HEAT
  2. Crush ginger and garlic using mortar-pestle. Or blend in a blender. You can use ginger garlic paste.
  3. In a pan over medium high heat, add oil.
  4. Once oil is hot, add the bay leaf, clove, cinnamon stick and green cardamom.
  5. Add the chicken, salt and ginger garlic paste.
  6. Let it get slightly brown on few pieces (pink→white→ white with mild brown roasted pieces)
  7. HEAT: LOW HEAT
  8. Add rough chopped tomatoes , 1 cup water and close the lid. Turn the heat to low
  9. After 10 mins, open and mix well. The tomatoes at this point will be mashed when we mix.
  10. Add yogurt, red chilli powder, coriander cumin powder, pepper powder and green chillies. Mix well. Close the lid.
  11. Let it cook for 12 minutes in low heat.
  12. Open the lid, at this point all the water would gone and the gravy would have oozed out oil.
  13. Now add the ginger and cilantro. Add lime juice if you had also.
  14. Close the lid for 2 minutes and serve with hot rice or Indian bread like naan/roti.
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CHICKEN GHEE ROAST

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Chicken Ghee Roast

Chicken marinated with roasted blended spiced and slow-cooked in ghee (clarified butter).

WHAT IS GHEE?

Ghee is clarified butter. Ghee is made by heating butter to separate the liquid and milk solid portions from the fat.

I make my ghee most times or at least my mom does. Here is our recent picture of ghee we made at home.

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There is a myth that ghee is bad for health. It is not. Anything in moderation is good. It had good anti-inflammatory properties and also contains heart-healthy fats.

Ghee can be used to our skin for dry skin and even to our hair for moisturizing it.

ENJOY WITH:

Marination helps the spices to get into the chicken. You can always replace chicken with paneer, tofu or mushroom.

Enjoy with Roti, Naan, paratha, parotta or plain hot rice or jeera rice.

OTHER FAVORITE CHICKEN RECIPES:

Chicken Biryani

Madras chicken curry in 30 minutes

Chicken Drumstick roast

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CHICKEN GHEE ROAST
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 2 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Roast :
  • 1.5 tsp, Cumin seeds
  • 2 tsp, Whole black pepper
  • 6 Red chillies whole
  • 1.5 tsp, Fennel seeds
  • 1.5 tsp Fenugreek Seeds
  • 1.5 tsp Coriander seeds
  • Blend:
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  • 1.5 tsp Kashmiri Red chilli powder
  • 1 inch Ginger
  • 5 Garlic
  • ½ cup of water
  • Marination:
  • ½ cup plain yoghurt
  • 400 gms, chicken
  • 2 tsp, salt
  • Roast
  • 2.5 tbsp of Ghee
  • 1 cup Onion, finely chopped (~1 medium-sized)
  • 2 Green chilli, chopped roughly
  • 7-8 Curry leaves,
  • 1 tsp Salt
  • 2 tbsp, coriander leaves, to garnish
Instructions
  1. Roast everything under ‘Roast’ in medium heat for 5 minutes. Keep an eye or it will get burnt.

  2. Take everything under ‘Blend’ with the roasted ingredients in a blender and blend it nicely into a paste.

  3. Add the blended paste to a bowl with marination ingredients (Yogurt, chicken and salt).

  4. Let them marinate for an hour.

  5. Now take a non-stick pan with ghee in medium heat. Add the chopped onion and green chillies with salt.

  6. Let them roast for 5-7 minutes until translucent and brown.
  7. Add the marination now and mix well. Close the lid and leave it for 5 minutes in medium heat and then 15 minutes in medium to low heat.

  8. Check if the chicken is cooked (it should be). If not leave it open for your right consistency (It should be semi gravy).

  9. Open the lid now, add the finely chopped coriander leaves, curry leaves and mix well.
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Spicy Kongunad kozhi kurma – Chicken curry

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ChickenKurmaParottaSouth Indian kurma is a flavourful and delicious curry with fresh ground masala. Taste great with street food style – Parotta.

Kongunad is a city comprising different parts of the states of modern Karnataka, and kerala. It was called kongudesam before and their cuisine is predominately south Indian which is very famous. So I wanted to make this recipe that I came to know.

This taste great with parotta or some kind of breads or naan or with plain rice. Whenever I say I made parotta and chicken kurma , I would see people drool 😀 I guess this combination is one of the classics. You can also use this chicken curry for street food style kothu parotta.

When I was making this recipe, the whole house smelled with flavors. I have heard stories about the method of making parotta in India. The road side parottas is the tastiest I have heard. The making of parotta is an art. The art of making the layers is fun to learn. I have made it couple of times and it is sure fun to make. It makes your stomach full as it is made with all purpose flour and oil.

You can have parotta with vegetable kurma too if you are a vegetarian. However if you eat meat, I am sure chicken curry like this is the best.

Other favorite chicken recipes: Madurai chicken curry/Kuzhambu, Chicken Biryani Homestyle, Madras chicken curry in 30 minutes.

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Spicy Kongunad kozhi kurma – Chicken curry
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 5 cups
 
Ingredients
  • Chicken – 500 gms / ½ kg ( Get chicken with the bone)
  • Oil – 1 tbsp
  • Coconut – 2 tbsp
  • Red Onion/ Shallots – 12 shallots or 2 small sized onion,/ 1 cup (chopped)
  • Curry leaves – 1 sprig
  • Tomatoes – 2 small , finely chopped
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tbsp
  • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped finely
  • Salt – to taste

    To roast & grind:
  • Curry leaves - 6
  • Fennel seeds – 2 tbsp
  • Poppy seeds – 3 tsp
  • Ginger – 1 inch
  • Garlic – 3 pods
  • Cloves - 2
  • Cinnamon – 1 inch
  • Dried whole Red chilli - 3
  • Pepper balls – 1 tbsp
  • Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
  • Red onion - 1 small-medium sized , ¾ cup, chopped
  • Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
Instructions
  1. Roasting & Grinding:
  2. Roast everything under “roast & grind” in medium to low heat for 5-7 minutes until the onions turn brown a bit.
  3. Add coconut to it, sauté for a minute and when it warm enough to grind, add the chilli powder and enough water to blend it smoothly. Blend it and set aside.]br]


    Gravy preparation
  4. Heat oil in a pan, add the shallots, curry leaves, bit of salt and sauté till transparent.
  5. Add in chopped tomatoes, turmeric and sauté till the tomatoes are nicely cooked.
  6. When the tomatoes are cooked, add in the ground masala paste with chicken pieces. Add salt as per taste.
  7. Cooker: If you are cooking in pressure cooker, close the cooker and leave it for 4 whistles in medium heat.
  8. Pan: If you are cooking in pan, keep it in simmer on low flame for 35-45 minutes till its cooked perfectly. Stir it every 10 minutes so that it does not stick to the pan.
  9. Open the cooker, mix well and add the chopped coriander leaves to garnish.
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Madurai Chicken curry/kuzhambu

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Madurai ChickenCurryThis curry is high on flavor and prepared with freshly ground spices. Taste great with parotta or plain rice. This is a famous south Indian recipe. Madurai is a major city in Tamilnadu, India. I have to mention it is totally famous for chicken curry and spicy food.

I used to live in Madurai with my parents from 3rd grade to 6th grade. Nostalgic! Those were one of the happy days of my life. I had zero worries about anything. I guess the biggest worry I had for the week is that I should get my favorite sambar vadai from a restaurant that we used to go every Saturday.haha! My dad used to take us to the temple (famous meenakshi Amman temple) and then to restaurant every Saturday. I used to dream about what to eat when I go to restaurant 😀 when I was in temple most times rather than praying! I was a kid 😀 😉 blaming on my age 😀 hahhaa! It’s a beautiful city in Tamilnadu, everyone should visit it atleast once.

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I made this chicken curry on a Sunday afternoon and my whole house smelled with flavors. You can use chicken with bone or boneless too. It’s always good when the meat dishes are spicy. You will start liking it that way if you start having it that way. However if you are making it for the first time, try to taste as you make to adjust to your spice level. I would say do not skip any ingredient in this, each of it gives unique taste to this. I usually don’t insist so because I usually advise to cook with whatever we have at our house. But pepper, cloves, cinnamon, fennel seeds and curry leaves are star ingredients in this. So, if you skip any one of it, it will make a great difference.

Taste great with just plain rice or Indian breads like paratha , parotta or roti.

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Madurai Chicken curry
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
 
Ingredients
  • • Chicken - 500gm
  • • Onion - 1 cup, 1 finely chopped
  • • Tomato - 1 cup, 1 finely chopped
  • • Ginger garlic paste – ½ tbsp
  • • Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
  • • Oil - 3 tbsp
  • • Salt - as needed
  • • Curry leaves – 10

    To Roast and grind:
  • • Pepper - 1 tsp
  • • Cinnamon – 1’’ stick
  • • Cloves – 3
  • • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Dry red chillies - 6
  • • Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
  • • Raw rice – 1 tbsp
  • • Roasted gram dal/ pottukadalai – 1 tsp
  • • Coconut – 2 tsp
Instructions
  1. • Dry roast the ingredient under "to roast & grind" each one of it Grind them together and keep it aside.
  2. • In a pan, heat oil, add onion, curry leaves little salt and sauté till golden brown. And then add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute.
  3. • Now add tomato and fry till its mushy and raw smell leaves. Add the turmeric, and sauté well.
  4. • Now add chicken, blended spices and stir well till the chicken is well blended with the spices. Add salt as per your taste.
  5. • Don’t add water. Keep it in medium and close the lid. It will take around ten minutes for it to cook well. Don’t add more water, it may make it rubbery. Chicken will ooze some water already.
  6. • Open, taste and adjust salt and spice level. (Check spice level as you add it, your spice level may differ)
  7. • Keep it closed in medium - low heat for another 6-8 minutes.
  8. • Add chopped coriander leaves and switch it off.
Notes
1. This is a spicy curry. If you want it dry, leave it for another 5-10 minutes to make it a roast.
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Chicken Drumstick Masala

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ChickenDrumstickMAsalaSpice 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

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Chicken Drumstick Masala
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Recipe type: main
Cuisine: Indian
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Ingredients
  • • 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
Instructions
  1. 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.
  2. After the onion is sautéed, add tomato, turmeric powder, keep stirring and make sure it sautéed well for a minute.
  3. Add the chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, garam masala powder and sauté well till it oozes out oil.
  4. Add the coconut and sauté well.
  5. Add the chicken and mix well.
  6. 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.
  7. Once it is almost 90% done till the chicken is dry and roasted. Keep the vessel open and not close it with lid now.
  8. When it is perfectly roasted, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Notes
If you find the spice level to be high, reduce the chilli powder to half.
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Taste great with lamb biryani/ egg biryani, fish curry or simple rasam/sambar.

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Home Style Spicy Chicken Dry Roast

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SpicyDryChickenRoast-15Spice coated chicken slowly roasted and browned in the hot pan scraping up the juices and flavor on the bottom.

This is the most indulgent, easy and delicious way of preparing chicken in Indian style. The ingredient is very simple and pretty straight-forward. I used just garlic, ginger, curry leaves and onions for this recipe. But 😉 hopefully you should miss these ones. It is simple, spicy and succulent. This is such an easy dish, yet so delicious and flavorful.



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 have another recipe Butter chicken roast which is similar but uses ghee and coconut in it. It tastes like butter coated chicken. I made this with a lot of recipes on a weekday 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. It taste great with Biryani like lamb biryani or egg biryani, with plain rice and tomato rasam or  sambar.

My other chicken recipes: chicken 65, Spicy chicken roast,pepper chicken curry, sweet and spicy garlic chicken drumsticks, spicy chicken egg fry noodles

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Home Style Spicy Chicken Dry Roast
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 3 servings
 
Ingredients
  • • Chicken – 400 grams, bite sized pieces, cleaned and washed
  • • Cardamom – 2 , Cinnamon – ½ inch stick, cloves - 2
  • • Curry leaves – 1 spring
  • • Dried Red chilli - 1
  • • Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1 tsp
  • • Small Shallots – 10, chopped finely or medium sized onions – 2, sliced thinly
  • • Green Chillies – 2
  • • Garlic – 3, chopped finely
  • • Ginger – 2 inch, chopped finely
  • • Turmeric powder – a pinch
  • • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
  • • Sambar powder – 1 tbsp or (Chilli powder – 1 tsp and Coriander powder – 2 tsp)
  • • Garam Masala Powder – 1 tsp
  • • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped, for garnish
  • • Salt – as needed
Instructions
  1. Take a pan and add oil in medium flame, add dried red chilli, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, cumin seeds and when their color changes, add garlic, ginger, shallots, green chillies and curry leaves.

  2. After the onion is sautéed well, add the chicken with turmeric powder, sambar powder (or chilli powder, coriander powder and salt. Sauté well for 2 mins, and add 2 tbsp of water.
  3. Close it with the lid and do not add more water. Let the chicken cook from the water that chicken oozes out.

  4. Once it is almost 90% done, add pepper powder, garam masala and cook till the chicken is dry, browned scrapping up the juices from the pan and roasted. Keep the vessel open and not close it with lid now.

  5. When it is perfectly roasted, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Notes
1. Do not add a lot of water when you cook chicken. The chicken has to get cooked with the chicken juices itself.
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It taste perfect with rasam, sambar or restaurant style lamb biryani.

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Spicy Chicken Roast

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ChickenRoast-13relishthebiteAn Indian recipe for Chicken roast that is luscious, aromatic and packed full of flavor.

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. 😉 Like I am trying different dal recipes every time I make. It is a famous south Indian recipe. I made this with rasam one day. It is one of the finest spicy recipes. If you are making it for the first time, try to taste as you make to adjust to your spice level. This recipe was spicy, tasty and flavorful.

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Spicy Chicken Roast
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
Prep time: 
Cook time: 
Total time: 
Serves: 1 kg chicken roast
 
Ingredients
  • Chicken – 1kg, Cleaned and cut into small pieces.
  • Oil – 3 tbsp
  • Mustard seeds – ½ tsp
  • Onions – 3,sliced
  • Tomatoes – 2,sliced
  • Green chillies - 2
  • Ginger – 2 tbsp, chopped finely
  • Garlic – 6 cloves, minced
  • Yogurt – 3 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
  • Chopped coriander leaves – to garnish
    [to roast and grind]
  • Cinnamon – 1’’ stick
  • Cloves – 3
  • Cardamom – 4
  • Star anise -3
  • Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
  • Coriander seeds – 2 tsp
  • Pepper - 1 tbsp
  • Dry red chillies - 7
  • Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
Instructions
  1. Dry roast the ingredient under "to roast & grind" in medium to low flame. Grind them and keep it aside.

  2. Take 1 tbsp of grinded powder and just apply on the chicken and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
  3. In a pan, heat oil and add mustard seeds. When it crackles, add grinded powder.

  4. Now add onion, chillies and salt and sauté till golden brown. And then add ginger garlic paste and sauté for a minute.
  5. Now add tomato and fry till its mushy. Add the turmeric and sate till it is mushy.

  6. Now add yogurt and mix well. And add chicken, and stir well till the chicken is well blended with the spices.
  7. Do not add water, just close and keep in low flame and let it slow boil for 25-30 minutes. Don’t add more water, it may make it rubbery. And Chicken will ooze some water already.

  8. The chicken would have cooked well by now, mix well. See if the consistency is good for you. Or keep it open for 10 minutes and it will get roasted at the ends. (Check spice level as you add it, your spice level may differ).

  9. Add chopped coriander leaves and switch it off.
Notes
This is a spicy curry. If you dont want it dry, leave it before 5-10 minutes to make it a curry,
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Taste great with plain rice or paratha or roti or sambar.

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