Chicken manathakali
Chicken manathakali is a very delicious curry made by cooking black nightshade leaves or manathakali keerai with chicken.
Servings 4 people
Ingredients
For marination
- 200 g chicken fillets
- ¼ tsp pepper powder
- ¼ tsp salt(or as needed)
- a pinch of turmeric powder
For grinding
- ½ cup grated coconut(around 60g)
- 1 tsp roasted gram dal(pottukadai)
- 1-2 green chillies
- 5 small cloves garlic
- 1 small piece of ginger
- 2 cashews
- ¼ tsp fennel seeds
Rest of the ingredients
- 2 tbsp oil
- 1 small piece of cinnamon
- 2 cardamoms
- 2 cloves
- 1 medium-sized big onion
- a good handful of manathakali keerai(black nightshade leaves)
- a few curry leaves
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ¼ tsp amchur powder
- salt as needed
- water as needed
Instructions
- Wash the chicken, chop into small cubes, and marinate it for 15 minutes with the items given under "For marination". Pick the leaves from the keerai, wash and keep it ready.
- Heat up 2 tbsp oil in a pan. First add the cardamoms, cloves and cinnamon, followed by chopped onion and curry leaves.
- When the onion starts to slightly brown up, roughly chop the greens and add it to the onion. Saute well for a few minutes till the leaves shrink in size. Next, add the chicken and saute it till the meat changes color.
- Add the coriander, cumin, and amchur powders and give it a good mix. Then add a cup of water and salt as needed and let it come to a boil.
- Meanwhile, grind the ingredients given under "For grinding" and add the ground mix to the curry. Add more water if needed.
- Once it is completely cooked add ghee and turn off the stove. Serve with chapatis or any flatbreads