Chicken Khurma

Brief Description

Chicken khurma is a famous South Asia dish.  It is very delicious and tasty. It is a kind of curry. It generally serve with rice or naan.

Preparation Time	20 mins
Cooking Time	35 mins
Serves	4

Ingredients for Chicken Khurma

• Medium sized pieces of Chicken -  1 - 1.5lb
• Finely chopped onions - 2 medium size
• Roughly chopped green Chilies - 3
• Finely chopped ginger - 1/2 inch in size
• 1 /4 cup of grated coconut
• 1 /2 teaspoon - Turmeric powder
• 1 /2 teaspoon - Coriander powder
• 1 /2 teaspoon - Cumin seed powder
• 1 teaspoon - Saunf
• 1 teaspoon - Garam Masala
• Salt  acc to taste
• Oil as per requirement
• 2 tablespoon - Coriander leaves

How to make Chicken Khurma

• In a blender, blend saunf, ginger, green chilies, and half onion. Make a paste and keep aside.
• Now mix grated coconut and some water. Grind it properly. Keep aside.
• In a sauce pan, heat little oil; add rest of the onions along with garam Masala. Cook the onions for some time.
• Then add paste (saunf, ginger, green chilies, and onions) and cook.
• Now add coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt, and cumin seed powder. Fry this complete mixture. Add little water if required.
• Now add chicken pieces to the mixture. Also some water to it. Cover the sauce pan with a lid. Allow the content to cook for about 1/2 hr - 1 hour. Make sure the chicken is done.
• Once chicken is cooked, put coconut paste into the chicken and some water also.
• Keep the mixture to boil.
• Now garnish the chicken with coriander leaves.
• Serve it with roti or naan.

Chicken Khurma

Some Useful Tips

• One can increase or decrease the quantity of green chilies into the chicken according to your taste.
• The chicken can be greased with butter and can be cooked in an oven instead of following the above process.

Other Similar Recipes

• Chicken tikka
• Malai murg
• Maloor chicken
• Quick cream of chicken soup
• Pepper chicken