Hyderabadi Chicken Curry

Hyderabadi chicken curry is a delicious chicken curry recipe from Hyderabadi cuisine. In this Hyderabadi chicken recipe, the chicken is cooked in a rich, spicy and aromatic gravy flavoured with garam masala, coconut and a good amount of heat with chillis.

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Course: curry

Cuisine: indian cuisine, south indian

Keyword: Chicken

Prep Time: 5

Cook Time: 25

Total Time: 30

Servings:

Calories: 462kcal

Author: Rekha Kakkar

Ingredients

300 g Chicken
2 tablespoon peanuts Roasted and skinned
4 tablespoon Coconut dessicated
3 red chillies dried whole
¼ cup Onion chopped
2 tablespoon Peanut oil
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
1 teaspoon green chillis chopped
15-20 curry leaves
2 green chilli
½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
1 tablespoon tamarind paste
Salt to taste
1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chilli powder
½ teaspoon garam masala powder
coriander leaves for garnish

Instructions

Grind together, desiccated coconut, Peanuts and whole red chillis and make a coarse powder.
Now heat oil in a pan and crackle cumin seeds, add chopped onions and cook for 2 minutes.
After onion turn slightly pink, add slit green chillis.
Saute them for 2 more minutes and add curry leaves, cook for a minute and add ginger garlic paste.
Cook again for a minute on low heat and add turmeric powder, salt, red chilli powder, black pepper powder and coriander powder.
Cook for one minute and add coarsely ground peanuts and coconut powder.
Cook all of these on low heat for 1 minute and add few tablespoon of water to make think masala.
Add chicken pieces and coat them evenly with masala.
Add tamarind paste and garam masala powder.
Fry them for 5 minutes while covered and add 1 cup water.
Cover and simmer for 5-6 minutes till chicken is fully cooked.

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