Green Chicken Curry
Green chicken curry is a popular Indian chicken curry. This is a mildly spiced chicken curry with star ingredient coriander leaves or cilantro.
Servings 4 People
Ingredients
- 7-10 pieces of chicken
- 8 garlic pods finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste made by crushing ¼ inch ginger and 6 pods garlic using mortar and pestle
- 2 medium sized onion finely chopped
- 1 tomato finely chopped
- 2 tablespoon green chilli sauce
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon powder
- 3 tablespoon oil
For the gravy:
- 1 bunch of fresh coriander leaves chopped along with the stem or 2 cups chopped coriander leaves
- 3 green chillies
- 10 pods garlic
- 1/2 inch ginger
- 5 peppercorns
- 4 tablespoon oil
For Marination:
- 1 tablespoon turmeric powder
- 2 tablespoon coriander leaves
- 1/2 inch ginger
- 4-5 garlic pods
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- ½ teaspoon salt
Instructions
For marinating chicken:
- Make a thick paste with coriander leaves, ginger and garlic (check ingredients in marination section).
- Apply this to chicken along with turmeric powder, lime juice and salt.
- Keep it in fridge to marinate for 1 hour.
To make green chicken gravy:
- Grind the following ingredients to make green gravy by adding 1/4 cup water – bunch of coriander leaves, green chillies, garlic, ginger and peppercorns to a smooth thick paste.
To make green chicken curry:
- Heat a kadai and add little oil.
- Add the chopped onion and fry till it gets pinkish.
- Then add ginger-garlic paste and fry for 1 minute.
- Add finely chopped garlic and fry for few seconds.
- Next add chopped tomato and fry on low flame by closing the lid of the kadai/pan till the tomato gets mushy.
- Add green chili sauce and mix well.
- Add the spice powders – cinnamon powder, coriander powder, cumin powder and black pepper powder and mix well.
- Add the prepared green paste and mix well. Let it cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the chicken pieces. Stir and close the lid of the kadai/pan.
- Add stock cube and mix well. (This is optional)
- After some time, check if chicken is cooked by trying to cut open a small piece of chicken while it is getting cooked in the kadai. If chicken is cooked properly then you will notice pieces separating easily.
- Adjust the salt and switch off the flame.
- Serve with rice or rotis.