Gongura Chicken Recipe
Gongura chicken is a dish prepared with chicken cooked in roselle leaves, green chilies spices & herbs. Serve this with rice or roti.
© Swasthi's Recipes
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- ½ kg chicken
- 1 ½ cups gongura leaves (roselle leaves)
- 3 to 4 green chilies (adjust to taste)
- 1 cup onions chopped finely (about 2)
- ¼ tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- 1 to 1½ teaspoon garam masala (adjust to suit your taste)
- 2 tablespoon poppy seeds paste or 12 cashew nuts (refer notes)
- 2 tablespoon oil
- ¼ teaspoon salt or as needed
Whole spices
- 1 bay leaf or 1 sprig of curry leaves
- 2 green cardamoms
- 2 cloves
- 1 inch cinnamon piece
- 1 pinch cumin or jeera
Marination
- ¾ tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- ⅛ teaspoon turmeric
- ¼ teaspoon red chili powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Instructions
Preparation
- Marinate chicken with ginger garlic, turmeric, red chilli powder and salt. Set this aside.
- Either dry roast the poppy seeds or sun dry them until crunchy.
- Powder them in a blender first and then add little water and make a fine paste.
- If you do not own a powerful blender, then you can use cashews instead of poppy seeds.
- Make a smooth paste with little water and set aside. This helps to get a delicious gravy.
- Clean the leaves and wash them in lot of water several times. Drain off aside.
- Saute the leaves in a tsp of oil along with green chilies. When the leaves wilt off turn off the heat.
- Cool and blend coarsely or smooth paste to suit your taste. You can blend it in the same jar used for poppy seeds.
How to make gongura chicken
- Saute cumin, cloves, cinnamon and cardamoms in hot oil in a pan, add curry leaves and onions.
- Fry until they turn golden. Then add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell wards off.
- Add chicken and garam masala. Fry on medium high heat till the chicken turns white in color.
- Pour enough water to cover the chicken.
- Cover and cook till the chicken is tender and soft cooked. Add poppy seeds paste and then ground gongura paste.
- Mix well and cook for about 4 minutes or till it reaches the desired thick consistency.
- Add more salt if needed.
- Serve gongura chicken curry with rice, ghee and onions.
Nutrition
Calories: 525kcal | Carbohydrates: 12g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 125mg | Sodium: 572mg | Potassium: 450mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 885IU | Vitamin C: 24.3mg | Calcium: 122mg | Iron: 3mg
