Chettinad Chicken Curry is a special tasty dish in tamilnadu cuisine with full of wonderful lip-smacking flavors. The curry goes well with naan, porottas and rice dishes as well. The Chettinad Curry dish is an authentic, traditional dish blended with the perfect spiciness and is easy to prepare. The dish is well explained in simple steps giving scope for new-comers as well as bachelors. Chicken pieces are cooked in a dry roasted spicy coconut mixture until the chicken pieces are soft and succulent. The simple and tasty chicken curry with fresh spicy flavors will engulf your home. Enjoy the great dish.
In the small jar of the mixer grinder, grind all these ingredients without using water.
Then add some water and grind them to a fine paste. Keep this ground paste aside.
Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add the onions and curry leaves and green chilies and saute till the onions turn brown.
Add ginger-garlic paste and saute till a nice aroma arises.
Add tomatoes and cook covered on low heat till the tomatoes are pulpy.
Once the tomatoes blend with the mixture, add the ground paste, chicken and 2 cups of water.
Cover with the cooker lid and cook for 3 whistles, on high heat.
Once the steam settles by itself, open the lid and cook till some of the water evaporates and you get the required consistency, which is a little more watery than a semi-gravy.
Garnish Chettinad Chicken Curry with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.
:- this Chettinad Chicken Curry will taste even better the next day.