Chicken Curry ( Tamilnadu)

Brian Holley's Note:

This is a typical tamil Nadu dish. Easy to prepare and delishious. I serve this as a main dish when having a vegetable curry. Serve with rice.

• Total Time: 35 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 2

• 2 lbs chicken, cubed
• 2 tablespoons oil
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 2 cinnamon sticks, broken
• 4 cloves
• 5 cashew nuts or 5 blanched almonds, chopped
• 10 curry leaves
• 1 tablespoon fresh gingerroot, grated
• 1 tablespoon garlic, crushed and finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1/2 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 chicken stock cube

Directions:

1. In a pan heat the oil and fry the onions with the cinnamon sticks, cloves, nuts and cuury leaves. Cook till the onion starts to soften.
2. Add the cubed chicken and fry for 4 minutes.
3. Add all of the other ingredients, crumble the stock cube, stir, reduce heat to minimum.
4. Cover the pan with a lid and continue cooking till the chicken is done and the juices form the gravy.

Reviews

[Mia in Germany]

Easy to prepare with ingredients I mostly have on hand. I reduced the cloves to two because I don't like a strong clove taste, and it was just perfect! Thanks for posting!