Kerala Chicken / Vegetable Stew
14 April, 2018
Kerala Appam and Chicken stew is a very popular traditional breakfast. Chunks of chicken are slowly cooked in coconut milk, with carrots, potato,beans,tomatoes and special spices and herbs. Besides appam, this stew makes a good side dish for parathas, roti, puttu, rice. Vegetarians, dont worry, by just ignoring the addition of chicken, you get the veg stew recipe...as simple as that!
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Ingredients
- Chicken with bones :750 grms cut into medium size pieces
- Onion : 1 medium thinly sliced
- Potato : 1 medium cubed
- Carrot :1 small-medium cubed
- Ginger : 1 tbsp thinly julienned
- Beans: 5 to 6 cut into 4cm length
- Garlic : 1 tbsp thinly sliced
- Green Chillies : 2-3 slit lengthwise
- Whole Black Peppercorns : ½ tsp
- Cardamom : 3
- Clove : 3
- Cinnamon :1" piece
- Bay Leaves : 3
- Star Anise : 2
- Curry leaves : 2 sprig
- Shallots /Red Small Onion : 4-5 thinly sliced
- Thick Coconut Milk First extract : 1 cup or The milk of one grated coconut
- Semi- Thin Coconut Milk Second & Third extract : 21/2 cup
- Cashew : 6-8 Soak in hot water and grind it along with water to smooth paste - it's purely optional step
- Black Pepper Powder : 1 tsp or to taste
- Coconut Oil : 1 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Tomato 1 chop
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Instructions
- First milk to be extracted by squeezing the milk with your hands, or mixing in a blender for a minute, after adding ¼ cup of warm water, The second and third milk are to be extracted by adding 1 cup of warm water in a similar way and kept aside.
- In a large pressure cooker or in a pan, heat coconut oil; add the cardamom, cloves, whole pepper corn, cinnamon, star anise and bay leaves and sauté for a minute.
- Add the sliced onions, ginger, garlic, slitted green chilies and curry leaves; sauté till it turns to soft and pink in color. (Onions need not be browned for the stew)
- Add chicken pieces, cubed carrots, potatoes,beans,tomatoes and salt. Combine everything well. Add semi thin coconut milk.Cover, cook till the chicken is fully cooked.
- If you're using cashew paste then add the grounded cashew paste to thick coconut milk.When chicken is cooked; add the cashew-thick coconut milk and reduce the flame and cook for 5 minutes or until you get the required thickness.
- In a small frying pan, heat coconut oil and add sliced small red onion/shallots and curry leaves and fry till become light brown color. Remove and add to the stew and sprinkle pepper powder if needed.
- Delicious chicken stew is ready to serve.Serve hot with Appam or Bread and enjoy!
Notes
Kerala stew is exceptional when paired with Kerala appams which is a speciality of Kerala cuisine.
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