Thursday, April 8, 2010

Curry Chicken with Dhall


Here's another recipe for curry.

Ingredients:
1 Chicken ; (cut into 8 pieces)
1 1/2 cups dhall ; (washed and drained; and soaked at least 4 hours)
1 pint Water ;
2 potatoes ; (skinned and minced)
2 Brinjal ; (skinned and minced)
1 teaspoon Turmeric
2 tablespoon Chicken curry powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoon Cooking oil
~~ -- Pounded Ingredients -- ~~
3 Red chillies
3 dried chillies
1 (2-in) Ginger
10 small Onion
6 cloves Garlic
1 (1-in) Lengkuas

Instructions:
1. Pour water into a saucepan. Bring to the boil. Put in dhall, turmeric powder, curry powder and salt. Continue to boil.

2. Heat oil and fry pounded ingredients till a film of oil forms on the surface. Stir well into the boiling dhall.

3. Add chicken pieces, potatoes and brinjals. Cook until dhall and chicken pieces are tender. Season well. Dish up and serve hot.

2 comments:

  1. OK, I want to try this...what does "pounded ingredients" mean? Sorry if I missed the explanation somewhere...Thanks! :)

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  2. Hi Tiffiny!
    The spice ingredients are pounded together in a mortar and pestle. However, a faster (and a LOT easier) way is to just process all the ingredients in a food processor..:)

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