Gongura Chicken Recipe
A spicy chicken curry with the distinctive taste of its main ingredient gongura or sorrel leaves
Course
Side Dish
Cuisine
Indian
Servings
Prep Time
3
people
30
min
Cook Time
30
min
Servings
Prep Time
3
people
30
min
Cook Time
30
min
Ingredients
1/2
kg
chicken, cleaned and cut into pieces
1/2
tbsp
Turmeric powder
salt to taste
10
cloves
garlic
1/2
inch piece
Ginger
For the curry
3
tbsp
cooking oil
4
cloves
laung
4
whole
green cardamoms
2
bay leaves
1
large
cinnamon stick
200
grms
gongura leaves
1
large
onion thinly chopped
1
stem
large curry leaves
Instructions
Boil the chiken and ginger garlic with some salt in a pressure cooker.
Fish out the ginger garlic and make a paste of it and keep aside.
Now in a pan heat oil and add all the whole spices.
Once they start spluttering, add the ginger garlic paste, green chilies and then the onions.
Saute till it becomes pink in color and then add the gongura leaves, curry leaves and all the ground spices and salt.
Saute till the oil is separated from the mixture.
Now add the chicken pieces and saute for five minutes so that they et well wrapped with the spices paste.
Then add water for curry and boil till it thickens
Garnish with fresh coriander or mint leaves and serve with rice.