Chicken Kurma

Hello everybody, I'm really sorry for keeping quite for sometime. Life has become so hectic after taniya started her Nursery school. And my laptop didn't co-operate with me, it crashed. And then on one fine evening of October vinodh gave me a surprise tickets for our long pending vacation to India. I once again apologies to all of you there..Thank you so much for all those lovely comments and e-mails. I'm actually not back completely as we r going on our vacation only from the 12 of Dec and i will be back during the third week of January..I will get into full action from the Feb '07.Thank you all for those lovely comments and concern.Before i leave i thought of sharing a long pending recipe with all my friend out here.This is a traditional recipe from my mom and is a regular part of our Sunday meals. Here goes the recipe for it..




Ingredients:-

Chicken- 1.25 lb
Onion-1(Medium sized, roughly chopped)
Finely chopped onion- 1 Tsp
Garlic-7 to 8 flakes
Tomato - 1,
Coconut-3 Tbsp
Cinnamon stick -1(of 1")
Saunf(fennel seeds)-1/2 tsp
Clove-2
Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp
Chillipowder-2tsp,
Dhaniya powder-1 tsp(Optional)
Oil - 2tbsp
Salt - to taste

Method:-

Fry the onion and the garlic in 1 tbsp of oil & Allow it to cool

Grind all the ingredients except the chicken along with the fried onions and garlic to a smooth paste..

Heat the remaining 1tbsp of oil in a kadai . Add a pinch of saunf and a tsp of finely chopped onions.

To this add the cleaned and cut chicken and fry for few minutes till the chicken turns white.

Then add the grounded masala along with required amount of water and salt, allow it to thicken.
Finally garnish it with the curry leaves

The same method can be used to prepare Potato Kurma ..