Unbelievably Delicious Chicken Curry : A taste of Maharashtra you can’t resist!

For my first vidéo of 2023, I wanted to share flavours which would be a discovery for many of you. This dish is a village style chicken curry, but why do we call it village style?

Because, the workers who come from remote parts of Maharashtra often cook this style of curry in Mumbai and it reminds them of their village, of the food they grew up with. It is their comfort food and so I decided to share this with you in honour of that beautiful recipe. Let’s all have a taste of their comfort food. This is a curry with amazing flavours and I strongly invite you to try it out.

I’m sure you haven’t tasted anything like it and you may do this curry quite a few time at home if you enjoyed it. Hopefully, you will try it out and if you don’t, that’s too bad for your taste buds.

Ingredients

Green paste
A bunch of fresh coriander
A good piece of ginger (roughly chopped)
7-8 green chillies
7-8 big cloves of garlic (or 14 small ones)

Roasting
One medium size onion
One Tomato
¨¨Little note, if you are in Europe or the Us, you may try Shallots as a substitute for onion as I find that the taste of the shallots actually is very close to the indian onions

Black Masala
8 TBSP Desiccated coconut (If you have fresh coconut, the better then in that case use 10-12 Tbsp)
4-5 Kashmiri Chillies (Optional – if you don”t find any and wish to try it, write me a mail, I’ll send some to you, but you can also try it without, your curry will be darker and greener and still be awesome)
1/2 tsp fennel seeds
1/2 tsp Cumin seeds
1 tsp black pepper corns or kali mirch
1 tbsp Coriander seeds
2-3 cloves
Small piece of cinnamon
1 pod of cardamom

For the curry
Oil
Water
Salt to taste
One large onion finely chopped
2-3 bay leaves
8 black peppercorns
2-3 Cloves
A piece of cinnamon
One pod of cardamom
1 kilo of boneless chicken thighs
1/2 tsp haldi (or turmeric or curcuma)
A bunch of Coriander

The dish is best served with chapati roti bread.