Kadai chicken curry is also known as karahi or gosht karahi (if prepared in
lamb or goat). It's one of the popular dishes in India, Nepal, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Afghanistan. It's very thick and creamy in taste. This dish can
take 35 to 45 minutes to be cooked. Below is the recipe to cook kadai chicken
curry.
Ingredients:
2 Pounds thigh chicken
1.5 Capsicum
cubed
1.5 Chopped
cubed and layers separated onions
4 Piece
garlic
2 Tomatoes pureed
2 Dry red chilly
2 Teaspoon ginger garlic
paste
1 Teaspoon turmeric
powder
1 Teaspoon Meat Curry
Masala
1 Teaspoon Coriander
Powder
1 Teaspoon Cumin Powder
8 Cashew nuts Paste
Canola or Vegetable Oil
Salt to taste
Cilantro finely chopped to
garnish
Instructions:
Firstly, clean onion, capsicum,
tomatoes, and thigh chicken. Chop capsicum and onions in a cube shape. Now,
make tomatoes puree, ginger garlic paste and cashews paste in a grinder and
keep it in 3 separate bowls.
Heat 2 tablespoon oil in a pan with
high flame and then fry the cubed capsicum till it becomes brown in color. Take
capsicum out from the pan and place it in a plate. After that fry cubed onions
and then fry cubed tomatoes. Place all fried capsicum, onions, and tomatoes
separately in a plate.
Clean the pan and use the same or you
can use another pan to make the curry. Heat the pan in medium flame and put
oil. Fry red chilly for 2 minutes. Add chopped onions, garlic, ginger garlic
paste and stir them until you see nice golden brown color. If you do not stir
and leave it for few minutes then onion will turn black color and your curry
will be spoilt. So stir it, furthermore make sure raw smell goes away and it's
not burnt.
Place chicken in the pan and fry until water is dried off from chicken. After that, you will see oil coming out from chicken which means it's time to add turmeric, coriander, cumin seed powder, and salt. Stir all the spices next 5 minutes, add tomato puree and cashew paste. Cook it until oil separates from the tomato.
Add meat curry masala and cover the lid
for 5 minutes. Check if the chicken is soft and cooked.
After chicken is cooked add fried
capsicum, onion and stir it for another 3 minutes.
Finally, kadai chicken curry is ready
to be placed into the plate. Add cilantro on top of curry for
garnishment.
You can serve this curry with rice,
roti or naan.
Additional Tips:
1) You can also use chopped tomato if
you don't want a puree.
2) Kadai Chicken should not be cooked
for a long time as capsicum and onions should taste crunchy.
3) Chicken thigh with bone will taste
better but if you do not have it you can use boneless chicken too.
4) If you do not like the taste of
capsicum and onion you do not have to put it as it's not used in the authentic
recipe but most restaurants use it.
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