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Home-style chicken curry (Tariwalla murgh)
- Maunika Gowardhan
Published: November 5, 2021 at 12:16 PM
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Serves 4
Easy
Total time: 1 hr
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This easy chicken curry from Maunika Gowardhan makes for a comforting yet nutritious Friday night treat. It's packed with aromatic flavours and has a kick
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This home-style chicken curry recipe is adapted from Thali: A Joyful Celebration of Indian Home Cooking, Maunika Gowardhan (Hardie Grant, £22). Maunika says: “This recipe uses easy-to-find ingredients and is a favourite on days when I miss home. The key is to blend the onions separately from the garlic and ginger – the temptation is to blend them together, but the cooking times vary for each.”
Ingredients
Nutrition
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180g white onions
roughly chopped
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6 cloves garlic
roughly chopped
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2½ cm ginger
roughly chopped
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120g tomatoes
roughly chopped
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1 heaped tbsp tomato purée
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3 tbsp vegetable oil
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5 green cardamom pods
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2½ cm cinnamon stick
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2 dried bay leaves
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1 tsp ground turmeric
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½ tsp kashmiri chilli powder
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1 tsp ground cumin
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2 tsp ground coriander
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850g whole chicken thighs and drumsticks
skinned
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230g potatoes
peeled and diced
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coriander
chopped to garnish
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1 tbsp lemon juice
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roti or pulao
to serve
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salad
to serve
Nutrition: per serving
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kcal355
low
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fat18.8g
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saturates3.3g
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carbs15.2g
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sugars4.9g
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fibre3.7g
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protein29.4g
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salt0.2g
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Method
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step 1
Blitz the onions in a blender to a smooth paste, then remove and set aside. In the same blender, blitz the garlic and ginger, then remove and set aside.
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step 2
Now add the tomatoes and tomato purée to the blender and blitz to a smooth paste, then set aside.
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step 3
Heat the oil in a large, heavy-based, non-stick pan over a medium heat. Add the whole spices and, when they sizzle, add the onion paste and fry for 9-10 minutes, stirring well.
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step 4
Add the garlic and ginger paste, and fry for 1 minute to cook out the raw flavours. Add the tomato paste and fry for 2 minutes until it begins to thicken. Add the turmeric, chilli powder, cumin and ground coriander, and fry for 3 minutes, stirring well.
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step 5
Add the chicken and mix to coat with all the spices, frying for 7-8 minutes to seal on all sides. Season to taste, then add 270ml of water. Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer for 15 minutes.
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step 6
Add the potatoes and continue cooking, with the lid on, for 15-17 minutes or until the potatoes are cooked through and the chicken is cooked through. Garnish with the coriander and lemon juice. Serve with roti or pulao and a salad.
This home-style chicken curry recipe is adapted from Thali: A Joyful Celebration of Indian Home Cooking, Maunika Gowardhan (Hardie Grant, £22). Photographs by Sam A Harris.
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