Kuttanadan Vacha Chicken

Total Time: 1 hr 24 mins Preparation Time: 39 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 kg chicken, cut into medium sized pieces
• 250 g potatoes, peeled,washed and sliced into rounds
• 1 1/2 cups thick coconut milk
• 1/2 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 2 onions
• 3 sprigs fresh curry leaves, washed and torn
• 8 green chilies
• 3 red chilies
• 6 -8 black peppercorns
• 1 inch fresh ginger, washed and peeled
• 8 cloves garlic
• 6 small onions (sambar onions)
• 2 inches cinnamon sticks
• 4 cloves
• 1 tablespoon anise seed
• ghee, to fry
• salt, to taste

Recipe

• 1 pour the crushed and ground mixtures in a pot.
• 2 add coconut milk, yogurt, salt and curry leaves.
• 3 fold in the chicken pieces.
• 4 cook the chicken in this sauce on low flame until it is tender.
• 5 fry the onion and the potato in oil.
• 6 keep aside.
• 7 now, fry the cooked chicken pieces till they become dark brown.
• 8 arrange the fried chicken, fried onion and fried potato in a large serving bowl.
• 9 stir in the sauce into the remaining oil and saute for 7 minutes.
• 10 pour this sauce over the arranged chicken.
• 11 enjoy!