Chicken Kulambu (Type 3)

Ingredients:

• Turmeric pdr - for marination
• Chicken pieces
• Oil
• Poppy seeds - 3 to 4 tbsp
• Coconut grated - 1/2 cup
• Whole garam masala(cumin , cloves, cardamom) - as req
• Onion - 1 large
• Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste - 1tbsp
• Corriander pdr - 2 tsp
• Chilli pdr - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Water - as req
• Pepper pdr -1 tsp
• Coriander leaves - for garnish

Preparation:

Marinate chicken pieces with turmeric pdr paste. Shallow fry these chicken pieces and keep it aside.

On low flame Dry roast poppy seeds and grated coconut in a pan. Once it poppy seeds turns color switch off the flame. Grind this to a paste.

To the heated oil in a pan, add whole garam masala + cumin seeds + onion + salt + gg paste + turmeric pdr + poppy coconut paste + 2 tsp corriander pdr + 1 tsp cumin pdr + curry leaves + chicken + water . Cook closed till the juice from chicken oozes out. Finally juz before couple of minutes of switching the flame, add pepper pdr. Garnish with coriander leaves.