Chicken Xacuti is a Popular Goan Chicken curry. Chicken is cooked along with spices, coconut and tamarind gravy. Try this flavorful curry at once and make your dine delightful.
- Chicken- 500 gm
- Grated coconut- 1/4 cup
- Onion-1 medium chopped
- Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
- Ghee-1 tbsp
- Oil-1 tbsp
- Onion sliced-1
- Ginger garlic crushed-1 tbsp
- Green chilly-1 or 2
- Kashmiri dry red chilly-5
- Cardamom- 2 no's
- Nutmeg-1 small piece
- clove-2 no's
- Cinnamon-1 small piece
- Coriander leaves chopped- 1/4 cup
- Tamarind- half of a lemon sized ball
- Salt-to taste
- Marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with turmeric powder, one onion chopped thinly, crushed ginger garlic, green chilly slit, salt and half of the coriander leaves chopped.
- Heat a tablespoon of oil in a pan; saute one onion sliced until soften. Add grated coconut and roast for another few minutes until coconut turns crisp and golden.
- Add in to a grinder; keep aside.
- In the same pan; dry roast cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cove, coriander seeds and dry red chilly for a minute.
- Mix it with the roasted coconut and add little water to make a smooth paste.
- Blend until smooth and keep aside.
- Heat a pan with 1 tbsp of ghee.
- Add the marinated chicken pieces along with its marination.
- Cook on medium flame for about 15 minutes
- After that add the blended coconut paste and mix well.
- Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup of hot water and take its pulp water.
- Add it in to the curry and cover cooks for another 10-15 minutes or until oil floats on top of the curry and chicken pieces gets nicely cooked. (After adding tamarind water; you can pressure cook the curry for one or two whistles; because we needed to cook the chicken nice and tender).
- Check for salt and add the remaining corianader leaves on top.
- Switch off the flame and serve hot!!!!
