Malvani green chicken

Ingredients –

Chicken cut into medium pieces – 1 kg.

Salt to taste

Ginger-garlic paste  - 1½ tb-sp

Pinch of turmeric powder

Lemon/lime juice - 1 tb-sp

Coconut, scraped – 3/4^th cup

Oil – 4 tb-sp

Cinnamon – 1 inch stick

Black cardamoms – 2

Green cadamoms – 3

Bay leaf – 1-2

Cloves – 3-4

Cumin seeds – ½ t-sp

Onions finely chopped – 3 medium

Garam masala powder – 1 t-sp

Fresh coriander leaves – 1 tb-sp

For green masala –

Fresh coriander leaves – small bunch

Coconut – ½ cup

Ginger roughly chopped – 1 inch

Green chilies, roughly chopped - 5

Procedure –

1. Apply salt and ginger-garlic paste to the chicken pieces and set aside for half an hour.

2. Grind 3/4^th cup of coconut with quarter cup of warm water and extract thick milk.

3. Grind together all ingredients of green masala to a fine paste.

4. Heat oil in a pan. Add cinnamon, black cardamom, green cardamom, bay leaf, cloves,     cumin seeds and sauté till fragrant.

5. Add onions and cook until soft and translucent.

6. Add ground green masala paste and sauté on low flame for 3-4 minutes, until masala leaves the oil.

7. Add chicken pieces and mix well. Continue to sauté for 2-3 minutes.

8. Add half cup of water, adjust salt and cook until chicken is done.

9. Add coconut milk and garam masala powder.

10. Mix well and let it boil.

11. Turn off the gas and garnish with coriander leaves.

Note :

Care has to be taken that chicken should be well cooked before adding coconut milk.

You can skip coconut milk if you want. But coconut is a eseential component while cooking konkani food.