Ingredients
Recipe source – Vahrehvah.com
1. Chicken, boned – 1 kg, cut into medium-small pieces
2. Oil – 1.5 tbsp
3. Onion – 1 medium-small, sliced (Makes about 1.5 cups)
4. Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Ginger – garlic paste – 1 tbsp
5. Chilly powder – 3/4 tsp
Coriander powder – 1 tbsp
6. Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
Tomato – 2 small, sliced
7. Salt – To taste
Other ingredients
8. Oil, preferably coconut oil – 2 tbsp
9. Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
Curry leaves – 3 sprigs
10. Crushed pepper (freshly ground) – 1 tsp
11. Cilantro – 1/4 cup, finely chopped
12. Salt – To taste
Method
1. Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed pan. Add sliced onion, little salt and suate until transparent. Add turmeric powder and ginger-garlic paste. Saute for a minute. Add chilly powder and coriander powder. Saute for a minute and add grated coconut and tomato slices. Mix well and cook covered for 3 – 4 minutes. Switch off. Set aside to cool. Grind to a paste adding 1/4 cup water.
2. Heat 2 tbsp oil in the same pan. Fry fennel seeds followed by curry leaves. After a few seconds, add chicken pieces and enough salt. Mix everything well and cook for 3 – 4 minutes. Add 1/2 – 3/4 tsp crushed pepper. Mix well. Next add ground onion-tomato paste and mix well. Cover and cook for 20 – 25 minutes until chicken is done and oil separates. Add chopped cilantro, few curry leaves and crushed pepper. Mix well. Cover and cook for 2 minutes until chicken is well-coated with the masala. Switch off. Serve this super-delicious curry leaf pepper chicken with porotta, nan, appam, chapathis, rice etc.
Made this 3-4 times already. Finger lickin’ good…
Hi Maya:
Has been a silent reader of ur recipes for long..I hav tried almost all the nonveg recipes u hav posted and have loved them…going to try this tonite….what caught my interest is the liberal use of curry leaves, i absolutely love the flavour it imparts to any dish….I am sure this will be another cracker of a dish from you….keep them coming!
Thank you so much for taking time to write here. This dish is really yummy, I hope you will enjoy this too. Do let me know your feedback..
Hi Maya,
I tried this dish today and believe me its come out so well and I’ve been trying out almost all your recipes every weekend. I used to hate cooking and once I’ve started cooking using your recipes I’ve realized that its fun trying out new dishes and getting compliments.hehehe. 🙂 Hope to see more recipes coming in soon 🙂
Best wishes
Maya Menon
Thanks Maya for the kind words :). I am really happy to know that you find the blog useful. Hope you continue to enjoy the recipes..Please keep checking and send me your comments and feedback. Happy cooking! 🙂
parotta looks soooo yummy. do u have recipe? plse
Sorry I dont have the recipe for parotta 🙁
so, is it store bought parotta?
Yeah, we bought it from Trader Joes..
Hi your curry leaf pepper chicken is awesome .i recently saw this site & I tried ur dish for the 1 st time an& it’s fantastic.thanks maya loved it
You’re welcome! Great to know that you loved this dish! Hope you get to try more recipes from here..
Hey Maya, Have you changed the layout of the blog recently? I have come back to blogging after a couple of months and delighted to see the new spread. The picture looks smashing and I am definitely trying this recipe out soon!
Hi Swati..Welcome back to blogging..I changed the layout of the blog recently, glad that you liked it 🙂
Hi!
I tried this recipe twice and came out very well! As you mentioned it was super delicious! I have tried so many recipes of yours and all came out really good! Keep going and best wishes………..
Hello Maya,
Tried this recipe yesterday, and was a big hit. Thanks a lot dear for the yummy dishes..The name of site is apt..Really yummy o yummy..I am also from thrissur.
Hi Maya,
Tried this recipe.Was finger licking good.Loved the idea of adding coconut.
Now this would be one of my frequent chicken recipes.
Thanks for posting this and keep going girl. you are doing an awesome work.. 🙂
Hi maya…
I tried this recipe today. Came out so well and got good comments from my hubby….(and oh… Yeah btw, I told him it’s from your website..so the credit goes to you…
You are the one who prepared it so credit goes to you :). Thanks for leaving your feedback here!
Kidilan:):)
Once again Thank you for this awesome recipe.. it came out really well esp with the coconut oil…so yummy…:)
Thanks a bunch for your feedback, Gayathri 🙂
This recipe came out really well….super!!
Thanks for your feedback! 🙂