Aromatic Chicken Chettinad Curry Recipe. Homemade Chettinad Chicken/ Spicy and Delicious.

Aromatic Chicken Chettinad Curry Recipe. The name itself sounds so amazing, right? I love 🥰 trying this recipe again and again at home whenever I crave some spicy and delicious treat on my plate for dinner or maybe for lunch. This curry is prepared using a lot of wonderful aromatic whole Indian spices along with lots of curry leaves and coconut 🥥 milk, which makes it so aromatic and flavorful full I must say. If you keep these spices handy you can prepare this curry anytime at home. And also in place of chicken, you may use this curry for anything else that you want like fish or maybe paneer. It would be amazing too 🙂

I would suggest checking the list of ingredients below ⬇️ and keep them ready before you start preparing this recipe at home for an easy startup 🙂

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Ingredients required to prepare Aromatic Chicken Chettinad Curry Recipe.

• Chicken 2.63 lb boneless chicken (thighs) . Curry cut pieces
• Onion 🧅 1 large roughly chopped
• Tomato 1 medium diced
• Curry leaves 1/2 cup + some extra
• Coconut milk 1 cup
• Water 1 to 2 cups
• Salt 1 teaspoon regular + extra as per taste
• Black salt 1/4 teaspoon
• Green chili 1
• Ghee ( clarified butter) 1 teaspoon
• Garlic cloves between 8 to 10
• Ginger chopped 1/2 inch
• Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon
• Tamarind pulp concentrated 1/2 teaspoon

Whole spices ~

• Cumin seeds 1 teaspoon
• Fennel seeds 1 teaspoon
• Bay leaves 2 broken
• Red chili 🌶 dry 3
• Green cardamom 4 to 5
• Black cardamom 2
• Coriander seeds 2 tablespoons
• Cinnamon stick 1/2 inch
• Black peppercorns 1 teaspoon
• Star anise 1
• Mace broken pieces 1/4 teaspoon

Total cook time

40 to 45 minutes

Short Summary for preparing Aromatic Chicken Chettinad Curry Recipe.

To prepare Chicken Chettinad Curry at home we need all the ingredients and whole spices to be ready and handy for the easy start of the recipe.

Step 1: To prepare the whole spice mixture we need to warm up 1 tablespoon of oil and drop one by one all the spices into it. Like Cumin seeds, coriander seeds, fennel seeds, black peppercorns, bay leaves 🍃, cloves, cardamoms green and black, star anise, cinnamon stick, and mace. Sauté all these together into the warm oil for about 1 or 2 minutes in low flame. Once these look slightly fried and turns aromatic take them out and allow them to cool completely. Once cooled, grind them and keep them aside for later use.

Step 2: Into the same pan add 1 tablespoon of oil. Once the oil is slightly warm add 1 green chili, 8 to 10 garlic cloves, add 1/2 a cup of curry leaves 🍃 and quickly sauté them. Stir fry these for a few seconds or until looks fried Next, add roughly chopped onions 🧅 and continue to sauté. Once the onions look cooked add some diced tomatoes and continue to cook further. In between add some regular salt, some black salt 🧂, turmeric powder, and a little bit of tamarind pulp concentrated. Or you may add fresh tamarind pulp as required. This mixture turns very aromatic. Once the tomatoes 🍅 look cooked and softened just turn off the flame and allow the mixture to cool completely. Later grind these and keep them aside.

Step 3: Cooking the chicken pieces with spices. Into the pan sauté the chicken in some oil for few minutes or until turns white. At this point add the whole spice powder mixture that we prepared and give it a mix. Then add the onion paste that we prepared into it and mix well. Add few curry leaves and 1 tablespoon of ghee (clarified butter 🧈 into it and mix. Open cook for 2 to 3 minutes then add water 1 cup into it and mix. Cover and cook in low to medium flame 🔥 for 10 minutes. Open and mix then add coconut milk 1 cup and sprinkle some salt as per taste. Give it a final mix and cover and cook 20 minutes or until done ✔️

Serve this curry hot with roti/ parathas, plain rice/ fried rice, biryanis, dosas, or any bread of choice. This curry is spicy and delicious 🤤

Points to remember to prepare Aromatic Chicken Chettinad Curry.

1. The oil must be warm but not too hot when you start sautéing the whole spices at the beginning of the cooking.
2. Make sure to fry the garlic and the curry leaves 🍃 nicely until you start getting a nice aroma:)
3. Onions should be sautéed well or until the rawness of the onions disappears completely and becomes translucent in color.
4. You may use fresh tamarind pulp instead of using the concentrated form.
5. In place of coconut milk, you may also use freshly grated or coconut paste. The texture would be slightly different but the taste and flavor would be great in both cases. The choice is completely yours 🙂
6. You may use lime/lemon juice in place of tamarind pulp 🙂

Step by step method along with the images shown below 👇

Into one tablespoon of oil sauté all the whole spices like cumin seeds 1 teaspoon, coriander seeds 2 teaspoons, fennel seeds 1 teaspoon, clove 4, star anise 1, cardamom green 4 to 5, black cardamom 2, cinnamon stick 1/2 inch broken, bay leaves 2 broken, black peppercorns 1 teaspoon, dry red chili’s whole 3, mace small broken pieces or 1/4 teaspoon. Sauté these for a few minutes in low flame 🔥 until a nice aroma starts to come and should look slightly fried.

Transfer these immediately and allow the mixture to cool

Then grind these into powdered form and keep them aside for later use.

Use the same frying pan 🍳 heat 1 tablespoon of oil and sauté 1 green chili, garlic cloves 8 to 10 in numbers, 1/2 a cup of curry leaves 🍃. Fry these for few minutes.

Then add chopped ginger 1/2 inch and fry theese for few minutes. These starts to give nice aroma.

Looks Fried…

Add 1 large onion 🧅 roughly chopped, and sauté these until the onions look slightly fried.

Then add the tomatoes 🍅 1 medium tomato diced.

Add regular salt 1 teaspoon, black salt 1/4 teaspoon, turmeric powder 1 teaspoon, tamarind pulp 1/2 teaspoon concentrated or fresh and cook these for few minutes or until the tomatoes have softened.

Allow these to completely cool and then grind to prepare a paste out of it. And keep aside for later use.

To cook the boneless chicken thighs simply heat 1 tablespoon of oil and sauté the curry-cut chicken pieces until they turn white.

Add the dry spice mixture and mix.

Then add the onion paste that we prepared into it and mix nicely.

Add 1 tablespoon of clarified butter ( ghee ) and few curry leaves 🍃 and give it a mix.

Open cook 2 minutes then add water

Cover and cook 10 minutes.

Open and stir then add coconut milk and

Sprinkle some salt as per taster and give it a mix.

Cover and cook again for 20 minutes or until done ✔️

Open and serve hot

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