Chicken Curry with Indian Food for Cooking

In the South of India chicken curry is just as popular as it is in the North albeit made with different ingredients. While in the north the curries are made with onions tomato and yogurt in the south Coconut or coconut milk is a regular addition to give body to a good chicken curry. From the coconut and bedagi chilly based masala of Karnataka to the curry leaf and onion base of an Andhra style peppery chicken curry or the cooling coconut milk based curries of Kerala - there is one thing that is common for curries from the south - plenty of flavor. These delicious curries are served with famous South Indian accompaniments like idlis, dosas, appams, iddiappams, Kerala paranthas etc.

 A chicken curry from Bengal on the other hand is slightly runnier than in other pockets of the country and is called a jhol. While you might be more familiar with a machcher or fish curry from the east, they do make a delightful chicken curry too - murgir jhol. Eaten with a generous helping of rice, make sure you make this Bengali curry with either mustard oil or jhorna ghee. In the West, Gujarat and Rajasthan are predominantly vegetarian but Maharashtra makes up for lack of a good chicken curry from the region. The flavorful pandhra or white curry and the fiery tambda rassas from Kolhapur are world famous. Even the Malvan coast boasts of delicious chicken curry served with crisp fried multiflour vadas called vade or rice flour bhakris called amboli.

One of the simplest chicken curries you can make is a home-style chicken curry with the most basic ingredients at home. All you need to do is heat some oil or ghee in a pan and sauté a few whole spices in it. Add a puree of onions and sauté followed by tomato puree, powdered spices and chicken pieces on the bone and cook till the chicken in well done and juicy. As this is a quick and easy chicken curry the chicken is directly added to the curry, but you could also pan fry it before adding it to the curry. You can watch a full video recipe with exact ingredient measure and step by step methods here. You can find all these delicious Chicken curry recipes from India easily online now.