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This is one of my evertime favourites

Ingredients

1 chicken, skinned
3 onions, chopped
1 or 2 tomatoes medium sized
1 tbsp ginger-garlic, chopped
green chilli to taste
4 whole red chillies
1tsp turmeric powder
1tbsp coriander powder
curry leaves a few
1/2 coconut grated and roasted
2 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp mustard seeds

Stir-fry the mustard seeds till they pop. Add the onions and fry until they turn golden brown. Add the ginger-garlic and stir fry for another 3 minutes. Add the sliced tomatoes and fry till the oil separates.

Make a paste of roasted coconut, whole red chillies, cinnamon. Add this to the pan and cook for a minute.

Add the chicken and add some water or coconut milk, salt to taste and cover and cook.

Once cooked, garnish it with curry leaves and serve with rice or rotis.

Filed under: Food, Recipes on August 7th, 2009