2008-02-11

Chicken neettiya curry

This is the simplest recipe with chicken that I know so far. By the way, do you know why the name is so? Because you can add more water to this curry when there is a guest after you have finished cooking! Add more water, boil it and can still retain the same taste to it. Hence it is named as neettiya (extended) curry! See the ingredients required :

Chicken - ½ kilo

Potato - 2 medium size
Onion - 1 medium size
Green chilli - 1 medium size.
Tomato - 1 small size
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tea spoon

Turmeric powder - 1 tea spoon
Red chilli powder - ¾ tea spoon
Coriander powder - 3 tea spoon
Pepper - ½ teaspoon

Cocunut grated - ½ cup

Coriander leaves - 5-6
Curry leaves - 5-6

Salt - 1 tea spoon.

Cut the chicken into small pieces and wash it thoroughly. Then wash it once in salt water and keep it in a bowl to drain out the water.

Cut the onions into 2 halves and make slices of it. Similarly cut tomatoes and potatoes too. Cut the green chilli into small pieces.

Add all the ingredients except coconut and coriander leaves into a pressure cooker, add 1 glass of water and cook it for 1 whistle in medium flame. Then let it cool down naturally.

Open the pressure cooker and turn on the stove again. Add coconut to it and cook it till chicken is cooked well. Add coriander leaves cover the pan and turn of the stove and have your chicken curry.

Tips:
Remember, some water will come out of the chicken when it boils. So don't add too much of water, thinking that water will get evaporated!
If the gravy is very little add ¼ or ½ cup of water to it after adding the coconut and boil it.

1 comment:

Rakesh Radhakrishnan said...

Muneere,

Very good blog. Useful one for guys like me, who dont know much cooking recipes. Anyway will try some of these items.