Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, coconut chicken curry. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Coconut curry chicken is an easy, healthy dinner that's packed with flavor. Just let the chicken simmer in curry spice and coconut milk! Coconut curry chicken has TONS of variations; from South India to Thailand, no two curries are exactly the same.
Coconut Chicken Curry is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Coconut Chicken Curry is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook coconut chicken curry using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Coconut Chicken Curry:
- Take marinade
- Prepare 1 kg chicken thighs (without skin), boneless
- Take 1/2 cup greek yoghurt (I used low fat)
- Make ready 1 tsp hot chilli powder
- Prepare 2 tsp garam masala
- Make ready 1 tsp garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
- Get Method- Poke your chicken thighs with a knife to absorb flavours
- Make ready Mix the poked chicken with all of the above (yoghurt + spices)
- Prepare Leave to marinate for at least 1hour (pic below)
- Prepare to cook
- Get 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tsp garam masala
- Get 2 tsp curry powder
- Get 2 tsp sugar (I used brown sugar)
- Get 300 ml full fat coconut milk (canned)
- Get 300 ml water
- Make ready 1 can chopped tomatoes (300g)
- Make ready 1 tsp red curry paste
- Take 1 red chilli, halved (optional, I like mine with a slight kick!)
- Get 1 tsp garlic paste
- Make ready 1 tsp ginger paste
- Get Handful coriander leaves
Pair this coconut chicken curry with basmati rice or homemade naan to allow it to soak up the flavours of the flavourful sauce of the coconut curry. Curried chicken simmered in coconut milk and tomatoes makes for a mouthwatering hint of the tropics! Goes great with rice and vegetables. Creamy Coconut Chicken Curry is an easy to make and healthy weeknight curry dinner recipe.
Steps to make Coconut Chicken Curry:
- For the marinade, mix the poked chicken with the yoghurt, and all the other marinade ingredients listed above. Leave to marinate for at least 1hour.
- Heat 2 tablespoon oil on medium-high heat. Put the chicken pieces in- sear for 3 mins on each side. Do it in 2 batches to avoid overcrowding the pan. Remove from pan. Then half each thigh to equal sizes. Set aside
- Use the same oil that you seared the chicken, add chopped onions, 1tsp red chilli paste, 1 tsp garam masala, 2 tsp curry powder, 1 red chilli halved (optional). Mix and sauter until onions browned.
- Then add 1 can/tin of chopped tomatoes, 1 tsp ginger paste, 1 tsp garlic paste, pinch of salt. Mix all. Then add 300ml Water and stir. Cover pan (lid on) and let simmer on medium high heat for 10 mins. Stir occasionally.
- Once tomato sauce cooked, add the chicken pieces and stir with cooked sauce. Still on medium heat, cover and let the chicken cook in the sauce for 7 mins.
- Then remove lid from pan and let chicken cook (uncovered) for another 7 mins. Add 2 tsp of sugar. Mix
- Then, add 300ml coconut milk, and mix with chicken sauce. Let cook on medium heat uncovered for 20-25 mins to thicken the sauce.
- Once the sauce has thickened, your chicken is ready! Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve with rice 🧡 Bon appetit!!
This healthy chicken coconut curry is one of my all time favorite recipes. It is super flavorful, creamy and filled with veggies. It also freezes very well, so it is the perfect meal to make ahead. Coconut chicken curry is one of my all time favorite comfort foods, especially this version: Malaysian-ish coconut curry chicken. The saucy, coconutty curry sauce spooned onto rice is so, so good.
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