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Kodi Kura -Simple Traditional Chicken Curry

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Traditional chicken curry cooked here in most Andhra homes is very simple.Button onions (sambar onions or shallots) are generally used in cooking non-veg dishes which are better tasting than the normal onions and have a mild sweet flavour.You can use the normal onions too.

This chicken recipe is a basic chicken gravy curry.Simple,easy and tasty!

1/2 kg chicken ,cleaned and cut into medium sized pieces
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 cup button onions/sambar onions(peeled)
whole spices (3 elachi,2″dalchini,6 cloves,one star aniseed)
2 cups of water
salt
oil
chopped coriander leaves for garnish

For paste:
1 tbsp coriander seeds
5-6 dry red chillis
1 tsp saunf (fennel seeds)
2 elachi (green cardamom)
4 lavanga (cloves)
2″ dalchini (cinnamon)

Grind the button onions coarsely.Remove and keep aside.
Dry roast dry red chillis,coriander seeds,elachi,dalchini,cloves,saunf and make a paste adding some water.
Heat 3 tbsps of oil in a skillet and add whole spices.Now add the coarsely ground onions and fry till brown.
Add ginger garlic paste and chicken and fry for 3-4 minutes.
Now add the ground paste and salt and mix well.
Cover and cook till oil seperates.
Now add 2 cups of water and cook till done.
Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

Serve with rice or rotis.




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By sailu • Dec 11th, 2005 • Category: All Recipes, Andhra Recipes, Curries & Gravies, Indian Chicken Recipes, Non-Vegetarian Recipes

11 Responses »

  1. rums on December 11th, 2005 at 9:58 pm:

    will definitely try this out. wow! i have so many things to try out now.

  2. Priya Balabhaskaran on December 12th, 2005 at 3:29 am:

    Your chicken curry looks yum. Visiting your blog for the first time. I dont know how I missed your blog. I linked your blog to mine.

  3. sailu on December 12th, 2005 at 8:27 am:

    Rums,you sure have quite a few recipes to try out….:)

    Thanks for dropping by Priya.I have linked your blog to mine as well..:)

  4. paz on December 13th, 2005 at 3:28 am:

    Thanks for the recipe!

    Paz

  5. Rekha on March 25th, 2006 at 5:45 pm:

    hi sailu
    tried your chicken curry recipe.Came out quite good but not like the photo posted.It was red in colour also slightly watery.Can the masala be ground with coconut.I used 6 kashmiri chillies.U think that was too much.Should i use less.

  6. sailu on March 25th, 2006 at 8:58 pm:

    Hi Rekha,
    I guess you added more water than necessary.Let the chicken cook till you get the desired curry consistency.Reduce the water content a bit if necessary.
    I guess the variety of chillis you used must have given the curry its red color.
    You can add coconut if you want,though I havent usesd it for the above curry.
    If the spice level is fine with 6 chillis then its ok,I guess.

  7. poongulali on January 4th, 2007 at 4:13 am:

    Hi, I love your recipes they have a very authentic home made flavour to it. They also seem to be makable at wish as they contain easily available ingredients, not exotic ones.

    Keep cooking!

  8. sabitha on April 20th, 2007 at 11:51 pm:

    hi shailu thanks for ur recipy.

  9. geethanjali on June 6th, 2007 at 7:01 am:

    i dont know how i missed your site. my husband likes to taste andhra dishes. i am happy that i have found one good blog where i can keep in touch with good recipes. thanks for the recipe.

  10. Silpa Suryadevara on July 14th, 2007 at 4:24 pm:

    Sailu,

    I just made this curry and the aroma that it is emanating is awesome.I am very new to cooking and didnt even know a lot of ingredients when I first started cooking.With time,I picked up a lot from your website.Last weekend,for a pot luck lunch for 25 people,I made the spicy chicken masala curry..and it was a hit!!
    Yesterday,in my attempt to make poornalu,I used the roasted chana dal first and when I tried making it again with the right dal,they came out so well(This is to let you know how much I knew first and how much I know now,because of you and your website)
    Thank you soo much!!

  11. muskaan sharieff on January 30th, 2008 at 4:29 am:

    its very nice to learn andhra receipes on net even im frm andhra but currently im in middle east today ill surely try out this receipe

    bye sailu

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