Chicken Curry (Odisha Style)
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken
- 6-8 onions
- 2-3 potatoes
- 2-3 Garlic
- 2-3 inch Ginger
- 2-3 tbsp red chilli powder
- 1-2 tbsp turmeric powder
- 3-4 tbsp cumin powder
- 3-4 tbsp coriander powder
- 2-3 bay leaves
- Dry cinnamon, cloves
- Salt (to taste)
- Garam masala powder
- Coriander leaves
- 200-300 ml oil
- 1/4 tbsp Sugar
- 2 tomatoes
Method
- Cut the chicken according to your preferable size and clean.
- Marinate the chicken using ½ tbsp turmeric powder+ salt to taste + 2tbsp oil
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- Potato- make quartered pieces +add salt to taste +1/4 turmeric powder and fry in oil.
- Make 3-4 onion chopped , 2-3 onion paste
- Make ginger –garlic paste(paste should be 2-3 tbsp)
- Heat the oil(150-200ml) in cooking pan.
- Masala-Add ¼ tbsp sugar to the hot oil ,while it ‘ll be of slight brown color add 2-3 bay leaves, 1 small stick cinnamon,2-3 cloves then fry slightly and add chopped onion and fry till the onion turns little brownish, add 1 big chopped tomato(or 2 small tomatoes) + stir little +add prepared ginger garlic paste +fry for 1 min + add 2-3 tbsp coriander powder + 2-3 tbsp cumin powder +1/2 tbsp turmeric powder+ 1 tbsp chilli powder (or add chilli powder to taste)+add onion paste+ add salt to taste and stir +fry in medium flame till the fragrant come or slight oil came out of the fried masala.
- Add Marinated chicken to the masala and stir well + cook for 15-20 min and don’t forget to stir well in the mean time otherwise chicken stick to cooking pan.
- Check in the mean time whether the chicken is fully cooked or not. If it’s cooked the you can eat few dry pieces to taste.
- Add fried potato + to rest of the chicken curry + stir well + add 100-200 ml of water (or add according to your choice) and cover the cooking pan and cook for 5-7 min and stir little in the mid of cooking .
- Add Garam masala powder to the curry + chopped coriander leaves and serve hot .
