Chicken-Peas Curry

Brief Description

Easily prepare chicken- peas curry by following this recipe. Chicken- peas curry is essentially a combination of chicken and peas along with the spices.

Preparation Time	15 mins
Cooking Time	30 mins
Serves	4

Ingredients for Chicken-Peas Curry

• 200g green pea
• 500g chicken
• Coriander leaves- 1 sprig
• Coriander powder- 1 tsp
• 1 tbsp garam masala powder
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 150 ml oil
• 2 onions
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• Salt as needed
• 1 tsp tandoori masala powder

How to make Chicken-Peas Curry

• Heat oil in a pressure cooker.
• Drop in tejpatta, jeera and dried red chill.
• Once jeera begins to splutter add onions to it and fry till they are golden brown.              
• Drop in garlic ginger paste
• Sauté all the items for 2 minutes
• Add tomatoes and powdered masalas and fry till it starts leaving oil.
• Drop in chicken keema and fry for 5 miutes. Add salt as per taste.
• Pour 2 cups of water
• Keep cooking under pressure until cooker give off a whistle.
• Reduce the flames and cook for 18-20minutes
• Heat up some oil in a wok.
• Add cumin seeds, when it starts to splutter add peas.
• Fry for 2 minutes and then add the turmeric powder, salt and red chili powder.
• Turn the flame low and let peas cook.
• Switch off the gas.
• Open the pressure cooker and add peas to it.
• Take off the flames and garnish it with coriander leaves.
• Best served with chapattis and steamed rice.

Some Useful Tips

• For thickening the sauce use corn flour mixed in a bit of water.
• Be careful when adding corn flour, you don’t want to end up with a glue like tick sauce. Add it in small quantities and allow it to react with the sauce.
• You can also add some potatoes cubes in the sauce.

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• Spicy Shredded Chicken
• Chicken Fajitas
• Andhra Chicken Fry
• Chicken Curry
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