Curry Chicken with Coconut Milk - I love any dish with coconut or coconut milk in it. My hometown is in a coastal state in South India known for its spices and coconuts so my affinity for coconut is not something surprising. I recently had this particular chicken curry at my sister's during the Christmas holidays and it was simply so delicious.
Why you'll love this Curry chicken?
- The addition of coconut milk to the spicy curry chicken enhances the taste of this dish,
- A perfect combination and side dish with ghee rice or many kinds of breads like parathas and appams
- Tastes better the next day when all the spices and coconut milk mix well together.
- Great for special occasions and get-togethers to serve your guests.
Ingredients you need
- Chicken cut into small pieces
- Coconut milk
- Onion chopped
- Tomatoes chopped
- Green chilies slit
- Ginger garlic paste
- Whole Spices Cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf
- Spice Powders turmeric powder, red chilly powder, coriander powder, pepper powder, garam masala,
- Coriander leaves and curry leaves
- Oil
- Salt
How to make Curry Chicken with Coconut Milk?
It is a very easy recipe. All you need to do is, cook chicken the regular way with tomatoes, onions, ginger garlic, and spices but finally, add coconut milk to it! The addition of coconut milk to the dish gives the dish an awesome flavor and taste.
This can be served with Malabar parathas ( a kind of layered wheat bread), Vellappams or Appams (soft pancakes made with rice and coconut batter), Rotis (wheat bread), or rice. It is also a wonderful dish when you have guests at home. Try it out and let me know how you like it! Some other chicken dishes to try are Kashmiri Chicken, and Chicken Tikka Masala.
Some other suggestions of menu and dishes that can go with paratha and curry chicken with coconut milk are Kozhikode biryani, Mutton biryani Kerala style, Layered mutton biryani recipe and finish with a delicious dessert like Kerala rice payasam or Vermicelli payasam .
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 🙂