Curry Chicken with Coconut Milk is one of those comforting chicken curry dishes dishes that is a must try. Adding coconut milk, an everyday chicken curry transforms into a deeply flavorful, and irresistible dish. This family-favorite recipe has been loved for years and never fails to impress.If you love bold flavors with a touch of richness, this is a recipe you'll want to make on repeat!
Why you'll love this Curry chicken?
- The addition of coconut milk to the spicy chicken curry adds a rich, creamy flavor that takes this dish to the next level.
- Pairs beautifully with nei choru (easy ghee rice) or a variety of breads like parathas, appams, and pathiri, which soak up the rich, flavorful gravy made with coconut milk, tender chicken, and aromatic spices.
- Tastes even better the next day as the spices deepen and blend perfectly with the coconut milk.
- Perfect for both casual weeknight dinners and special occasions when serving family or guests.
- Serve with Kozhikode biryani, or Mutton biryani Kerala style, or Layered mutton biryani recipe, and finish with a delicious dessert like Kerala rice payasam, pink palada payasam, or Vermicelli payasam.
Ingredients you need
- Chicken cut into small pieces
- Coconut milk, oil, salt
- Onion, Tomatoes, Green chilies, Ginger garlic paste, Coriander leaves, and curry leaves
- Whole Spices: Cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf
- Spice Powder:s turmeric powder, red chilly powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, garam masala,
How to make Curry Chicken with Coconut Milk?
This is a very easy recipe to make and comes together with simple ingredients. The chicken is cooked the usual way by tempering fragrant spices and sauteeing onions, ginger, garlic, and tomatoes.
Add in the dry spice powders like turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder ad pepper. Finally finish with creamy coconut milk and garam masala. That final addition transforms the curry, giving it a rich texture and incredible depth of flavor.
Serve it with Malabar parathas (layered flatbread), Vellappams or Appams (soft rice pancakes), rotis, or steamed rice. It is also an excellent choice when entertaining guests, as it is both comforting and impressive.
Some other chicken dishes to try are Kashmiri Chicken, Chicken Tikka Masala, or if you prefer a dry version, do try the chicken 65 dry fry recipe or air fryer chicken tikka.
Curry Chicken with Coconut milk
Ingredients
- 8 oz chicken cut into small pieces
- 1 can coconut milk
- 2 med onion chopped
- 2 med tomatoes chopped
- 4 green chilies slit
- 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 inch cinnamon
- 4 cloves
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 2 tsp red chilly powder
- 4 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp pepper powder
- 1 tsp garam masala
- 1 cup chopped coriander leaves
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 4 tbsp oil
- 1 tsp salt to taste
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste, turmeric, chilly powder, and salt for about 30 minutes
- In a heavy deep bottom pan heat up the oil
- Add the dry spices cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves
- Add onions and sautèe till it wilts a little
- Add the remaining spice powders and tomatoes
- Cook well till until oil floats on the top
- Add the marinated chicken and mix well
- Cover with a lid and cook on medium flame
- Mix well from time to time
- Add coconut milk and curry leaves when almost cooked
- Mix well and cook for another 5 minutes
- Garnish with coriander leaves and curry leaves
- Curry chicken is ready, serve with rice or parathas.
Nutrition
Oh my gosh I need to stop going through your blog! I'm getting SO hungry lol! All of these recipes are AMAZING! I'm on a no meat, no dairy, no gluten 3-week cleanse. Any good recommendations? <3 Big love to you! Xx
Oh dear! That's really tough I wouldn't be able to survive that kind of diet restriction Lol:) . But seriously, cleansing sounds like a great idea and I can imagine looking at these pictures could really be a distraction ! Thank you for liking my recipes .I have to keep thinking of new things to cook for my teenage twins 🙂 Have a good rest of the week !
I found this site https://cookieandkate.com/dairy-free-gluten-free-vegetarian-recipes/ .Hope this helps!
Omg! This looks heavenly. I bet it tastes absolutely delicious. 🙂
Yes Neha, it was super yum ! Thank you so much!
Interesting with coconut milk 👍
Thank you so much Jyo, do try it sometime it has a wonderful flavor!
This looks so yummy! I am like you -love coconut milk!
Thank you so much Sandhya! It was really yum ,Glad to hear you love coconut milk as well 🙂
coconut milk smells strange a bit, but i love it to use when i'm cooking indian dishes 🙂
I used canned coconut milk here in the US which is a little thick but quite okay .Back home we squeeze out the coconut milk from fresh grated coconut for Indian curries and that is even better.
Yes, but here we’ve got only canned too 🤨😫 fresh is always awesome: for taste and for health 💓
We do get coconut in the store here but is a lot of work to break it open, grate , blend and extract milk , other option is frozen grated coconut , however canned coconut milk is best for a fast and easy preparation!
Looking good Chechi!
Thank you so much Deepa and for the recipe as well 🙂