Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry
Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, traditional punjabi chicken curry. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Punjabi Style Chicken Curry: This chicken recipe is from Punjab, India. Punjab is located in northern part of India. Punjabi cuisine is well known for it's chicken curry and lamb recipes across the world. Ingredients used in recipes comes from tradition and old ways of cooking..

Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional punjabi chicken curry using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry:
  1. Make ready 4 lb chicken wings (skinned)
  2. Prepare 1 regular onion, chopped
  3. Get 2 Cofresh Crushed Frozen Garlic
  4. Get 2 Cofresh Crushed Frozen Ginger
  5. Get 1 tsp tumeric powder
  6. Make ready 0.5 tbsp paprika powder
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup ghee
  8. Prepare 1 tbsp garam masala (Old Indian garam masala-ground)
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp freshly cracked pepper
  10. Take 2 tbsp green bird's eye chilli chopped
  11. Take 0.25-0.5 cup garlic greens, chopped
  12. Make ready 1.5 tbsp salt

This super-easy, hearty chicken curry layers up earthy spices, including cardamom and turmeric with zingy root ginger and fresh coriander leaves. Delicious chicken curry fragrant with a special blend of spices, that is so easy to make and go so well with rice or rotis. I had seen this recipe for a Punjabi Chicken Curry in Anjum's New Indian cookbook and I wanted to try that out. When I started reading the recipe, it did not seem very different.

Instructions to make Traditional Punjabi Chicken Curry:
  1. Wash the chicken with water, add to a pot with boiled water (until the chicken is coveres) and 1 tbsp salt. Simmer on a low/medium flame for 10 minutes (uncovered).
  2. While you wait for the chicken, in a pot (medium heat) add the ghee. Once melted, add the garlic and ginger and onion, cook until frozen garlic ginger has cooked down (2 minutes). Add tumeric powder, 0.5 tbsp salt, paprika, masala, and black pepper. Mix and add chilli, once the oil floats ot the top it is ready (turn to low flame)
  3. After 10 minutes drain the water from the chicken (with care), and rinse the chicken again. Discard of the water and add the chicken into the pot with the masala and add hot water until it is 0.5 inches below chicken.
  4. Turn heat to low/medium heat and cook for 15 minutes (without the lid). Then turn to a medium heat and add chopped garlic greens and mix. Cook the curry until the chicken is cooked/falling off the bone.
  5. Serve with hot chapattis and raita

I had seen this recipe for a Punjabi Chicken Curry in Anjum's New Indian cookbook and I wanted to try that out. When I started reading the recipe, it did not seem very different. A traditional Punjabi curry that we grew up eating weekly and was passed down to my mum by my nan. It's saucy and contains lots of tomato, garlic and ginger and tastes fantastic whether mild or very hot. It's usually eaten with rice or hot chapatis and a veg dish like saag (spinach) or a potato curry.

So that is going to wrap this up for this special food traditional punjabi chicken curry recipe. Thank you very much for your time. I’m sure you can make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food in home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!