Alleppey chicken curry is heavenly mouth watering chicken curry which is cooked purely in coconut milk.
The main spice ingredient that add taste to this recipe is crushed cinamon and pepper and also the thick coconut milk which enhance its taste.
I have tried this recipe first in calicut notebook.it tasted so good that i wanted to try this at home and started searching this recipe but i couldnot find it ….finally i got the recipe and tried it…it was so tasty it was same as that i have tasted …lets get into the recipe
STEP BY STEP PICTORIAL
Alleppey Chicken Curry
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Ingredients
- 1/2 kg chicken pieces
- 3 redchillies broken
- 2 onions finely sliced
- 1 1/2 tbsps chopped Ginger
- 1 1/2 chopped garlic
- 1 curryleaves spring
- 2 tbsps coriander powder
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp peppercorn
- 1 inch cinamon
- 10 cashew soaked and ground to paste
- 1/2 cup coconut milk thin
- 1/2 cup coconut milk thick (increase if you want more gravy)
- 1 1/2 tbsps coconut oil
- salt .
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a pan fry redchillies then add curryleaves.Add sliced onion fry till golden brown.do not burn as it would change the colour of the dish.
- Add chopped ginger and garlic fry till raw smells goes.
- crush the peppercorns and cinamon coarsely.
- Add the spice powders and crushed spices and fry for 2 mins
- Add the chicken pieces and coat with spices then add thin/second coconut milk and cook till chicken is done
- When chicken is done add the cashew paste and thick coconut milk and simmer for 2 mins.
- serve this with appam and ghee rice.