Chettinad Chicken White Kurma (Kozhi Vellai Kurma)

Ingredients

Chicken ½ kg

Coconut grated 1 cup

Green chilli 5

Garlic 4 pods

Roasted Bengal gram 1 tsp

Ginger 1 inch

Poppy seeds ½ tsp

Fennel seeds ½ tsp

Onion chopped 1 cup

Tomato chopped 2

For seasoning (fennel seeds, bay leaf, cinnamon, pepper corns)

Salt and oil as required

Preparations

1.      Make a fine paste of green chilli,garlic,roasted Bengal gram and ginger

2.      In a pan add oil and fry grated coconut, fennel seeds and poppy seeds. Grind  it to a smooth paste

3.      In a pan add oil and add ingredients for seasoning

4.      Then add onions, tomatoes and chicken pieces

5.      Cook till the chicken is half done

6.      Add the paste and cook till the chicken is done and the gravy thickens

Serve with chettinad special chicken briyani. Also goes well with rotis