Nice & easy home style chicken curry

A friend of mine asked me a recipe for simple and easy chicken curry .. 2 weeks back so I prepared a nice chicken curry the very next day, clicked pix and decided to post it, however my trusty personal lappy had other plans!! It crashed and refused to get fixed so I went without internet at home i.e. No FB & Blogging for 2 weeks, yes i survived, anyways back to the chicken curry so this is about two weeks late :P bare with me peeps more posts coming soon :)

Home style Chicken curry

Lets start with 1/4 kg of chicken, it serves 2.

Ingredients 

2 big onions finely chopped

2 medium size tomatoes finely chopped

10 cloves garlic and 1 inch ginger crushed

2 spoons yogurt 
5 baby potatoes slit in halves

For seasoning 2-3- cloves, a small cinnamon stick

Ingredients

Marinate the chicken

Wash and drain the chicken pieces, add the following ingredients, marinate and keep aside for 1/2 hour..

• a few pinches of turmeric
• 2 teaspoons of curd
• 1 spoon of garlic and ginger paste
• 2 spoons of chilli powder and 
• 1/2 spoon crushed pepper
• Sprinkle some salt 
• Sqeeze half a lemon

Marinated Chicken

Procedure

• Heat a kadai, add 4-5 spoons of oil, add cinnamon and cloves and fry 
• Add the chopped shallots, curry leaves and fry 
• Add the marinated chicken pieces and baby potatoes and fry for 10 minutes

Chicken Curry in Progress

• Add the tomatoes and reduce flame (Adding tomatoes later allows the colour to be bright red)



Chicken curry in progress

• Add salt and chilli powder and reduce the flame
• Let it cook for another 15 minutes and remove from flame 
• Serve with Idly, Dosa, Rice or Simple and Easy home made Briyani

Chapatti and chicken curry

Mutton Briyani, Chicken Curry and Raita

Ensoi!!!