Chicken and Potato curry.
1 whole chicken Chicken (can be with bone or boneless : with bone are better as thet make the curry tastier)
5 - 6 Potatoes (peeled and cutted into 4)
5 T curry powder
1 large onion (diced)
Lots of coriander leaves
1T coriander powder.(chopped)
salt and pepper
Oil
Few green chillies
2T ginger and garlic paste.
5T tomato paste
100g plain unsweetned yoghurt (optional)
Half boil the potatoes on salted water. leave aside.
Put chicken in a deep recipient to cook.
- In another pan, heat oil and add diced onion, garlic and ginger paste salt and pepper and tomato paste and coriander powder. Cooked till soft.
- Mix curry powder with 1 cup water to form a paste. If you wish add more water to make sauce lighter (depending on your choice).
-Add curry sauce to the mixture in pan and continue on cooking the sauce while stirring regularly.
-By this time, stop the cooking of chiken. Chiken should be half cooked. Leave chicken is a cool place. remove pan lid so that chicken doesnt continue on cooking.
Finally Put in the half cooked potatoes in the cooking curry sauce and add half cooked chicken. Allow to cook fully on medium heat.On the last 5 mins: stir in the whole green chillies. Stir occasionally.
If you now want to have a creamy curry sauce, after cooking, pour in the 100g yoghurt in the gravy. It will turn creamy.
Mix in the chopped coriander leaves.
serve hot with rice along with a tomato chutney
Enjoy!