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Chicken salna
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Salem chicken salna

Salem style chicken curry
Prep Time10 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Total Time40 minutes
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Tamilnadu cuisine
Servings: 2 Servings
Author: Jinoo Jayakrishnan
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Ingredients

  • 7 - 8 Nos Shallots/Small onions - Roughly chopped
  • 1 Large Tomato - Roughly chopped
  • 10 Cloves garlic
  • 1 Inch Ginger
  • 1 Tsp peppercorns
  • 2 Tbsp Grated coconut
  • 1 1/2 Tsp Fennel seeds
  • 3-4 Tsp Oil
  • 1 Tsp turmeric powdder
  • 1 1/2 Tsp Chilli powxer
  • 2 Tsp coriander powder
  • 1 Tsp Garam Masala
  • 1 Tsp Curry masal powder - Optional
  • 1/2 Kg Chicken

Instructions

  • For Paste 1 (onion tomato paste): Grind Shallots, Tomato, garlic, Ginger, Peppercorns to a fine paste. Grind all these raw, need not saute them.
  • For paste 2 ( coconut paste ): Grind Coconut and Fennel seeds to a fine paste
  • Heat Oil, add the paste 1 (onion tomato paste) and saute until raw smell goes off.
  • Add cleaned chicken pieces and fry for a min or two until it gets mixed with the masala
  • Add paste 2/coconut paste, salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, garam masala/curry masala. Mix well and add little water , cook it upto 2-3 whistle.