Honestly, I do not often cook Indian food because I am not familiar with the Indian recipes.
Indian recipes are usually related to hot spices and curries which are traditional flavors for poultry, fish, lamb and mutton cuisine.
Fortunately, nowadays you can buy pre-packed chicken curry paste in the market whereby they are sold in small sachets, suitable for one time curry stew or dry curry dishes.
However, ready made curry paste does not meet the original curry paste which tasted better and natural spicy flavor.
Curries are usually in dry or wet , depending on each person’s preference.
Wet curry stew is full of orange yellow like color, busted with chunks of chicken parts ( the fleshy parts), potatoes, onions, ginger, coconut milk and curry paste.
You may noticed that wet curry stew has more thick or thin gravy compare to dry curry.
As for dry curry, the gravy is reduced until almost dried up to allow the thicken gravy with spicy paste to coat onto the chicken parts.
In addition, dry curry does not require much liquid such as coconut milk.
The amount of coconut milk is reduced to almost half of the wet curry amount.
Instead, more spicy paste is required to enhance the chicken parts to absorb the spicy flavor into the flesh.
Hence, it may take a longer time to cook the chicken since less liquid is involved.
You can buy these spice ingredients at the Indian curry spice shop or at the hypermarket where the dry ingredients are displayed.
Always buy in small packets because you can use it at one curry dish.
Do not buy in bulk or large amount unless you often cook curry stews or dry curry chicken in a week.
As for the coconut milk, you can either buy small box packet of coconut milk, 1 packet of coconut powder mix with hot water to dilute it.
100ml of water makes 1/2 cup of coconut milk.
Alternatively, you can buy freshly grated coconut, mix with cold water, squeeze out the coconut milk for the original sweet flavor.
– 1 medium size chicken- cut into chunks
– 1 large onion- sliced
– 2 clove garlic pound with 3 slices of ginger, marinate with the chunks of chicken
Salt and pepper to taste
– 1/2 cup yogurt -original flavor
– 1/2 cup thick coconut milk
-2 green chillies-optional
-1 sprig curry leaves
-1 sprig coriander leaves-garnishing
-1 tbsp coriander
-1 tsp cummin
– 2 clove garlic
-2 cm cinnamon
-2 cardamoms
-1 tbsp black peppercorn or black pepper powder
-3 red chillies-remove seeds
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Yes you have given really a very nice recipe for dry chicken to make at home and its ingredients are available everywhere in all cities and its method of cooking is easy. Thanks for giving a nice recipe.
Wow! This picture really tempting, with the white sesame on the top make it even smelling.
I can take two bowl of white rice with this curry chicken if this dish is served at home.
I like to buy the wet curry paste from the wet market at the Indian stalls as the India hawkers sell a lot of spicy ingredient here. They able to mix the spicy ingredient well, either for curry mutton, curry chicken, etc. Thus, we have to tell clearly when purchase.
The article is giving a good recipe for dry chicken curry. A good article.
But this is unfortunate that the dry curry paste and wet curry paste are now available in the malls also. Earlier people were preparing the dry curry paste and wet curry paste at home with proper taste suitable for all members of the family. They were avoiding such ready made stuff.
Until 5 years these were not available in the malls. But now everything has entered into the market.
They are not good at all. The dry curry paste is not at all good in taste. The dry curry paste is giving a sometimes bad smell. We have to be very careful in selecting the wet curry paste also.
There are certain shops in India were the dry curry paste and wet curry paste is prepared on the spot mixing the necessary ingredients as per our requirement with the readily available stuff. These shops are located adjacent to most of the chicken shops. One can purchase a good chicken and get the curry paste whether wet or dry prepared there and then itself.
I will try it and come back to you!
This is very useful information you have provieded. We love to eat spicy food,Indian and Pakistanis are love eating spicy food and fry food with a little bit spicy or some people like more spicy.
Here's the story with me and curry. When I attended the University of Miami, there was a Chinese Jamaican who lived in the apartment above mine. Almost every day you could smell good food that he was cooking up. One day I just had to ask. “What's for dinner?” He said: “Curry chicken.” Never got a chance to taste it. We didn't know each other that well so he didn't invite me in. It's OK. I could tell by the smell it had to be delicious!
Fast forward, married with kids, and looking a way to make curry chicken and found this pre-packed chicken curry paste. Took at home and tried it. It was amazing!
These days my hubby wants the curry spice, not in paste form, but as a powder, in practically all of his dishes. It's cool.
Curry was not a spice my late mother had in her kitchen cabinet. Glad to have been introduced to this spice later on in my life though. :) I love spicy food.
Dry chicken curry is delicious in eating I have eaten one day at my friend's home I enjoyed the curry really I cooked at my home the next day but could not make. The thick curry has ingredients like curry powder, tomato, ghee and onion with chicken. Lemon juice and coconut is sprinkled to make it dry.
Ingredients:
60 gms ghee
2 Onion (Pyaj)s, thinly sliced
2 clove (laung)s garlic (lasan), thinly sliced
2 tblsp curry powder
1 tblsp tomato (tamatar) paste
1 1/2 kg chicken pieces
How to make dry chicken curry:
Meld ghee in a frying pan, sauté onions and garlic until onions is tender.
Add curry powder and tomato paste, sauté 3 minutes.
Add chicken pieces, mix well, cover, simmer for about 45 minutes or until chicken is tender.
Add lemon juice and coconut, which will absorb any excess gravy.
Note: The pan must be continually watched, as the contents may stick. If this happens, add just sufficient water to prevent it