Kuttanadan Vacha Chicken

This is my friend Namitha Elezabeth Thomas' recipe. Enjoy!

• Ready In: 1 hr 24 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 1  kg chicken, cut into medium sized pieces
• 250  g potatoes, peeled,washed and sliced into rounds
• 1 1⁄2 cups  thick coconut milk
• 1⁄2 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 2  onions
• 3  sprigs  fresh curry leaves, washed and torn

• To grind to a fine paste

• 8  green chilies
• 3  red chilies
• 6 -8  black peppercorns
• 1  inch fresh ginger, washed and peeled
• 8  cloves garlic
• 6  small onions (sambar onions)

• To be finely crushed

• 2  inches cinnamon sticks
• 4  cloves
• 1  tablespoon anise seed
•  ghee, to fry
•  salt, to taste

Directions

1. Pour the crushed and ground mixtures in a pot.
2. Add coconut milk, yogurt, salt and curry leaves.
3. Fold in the chicken pieces.
4. Cook the chicken in this sauce on low flame until it is tender.
5. Fry the onion and the potato in oil.
6. Keep aside.
7. Now, fry the cooked chicken pieces till they become dark brown.
8. Arrange the fried chicken, fried onion and fried potato in a large serving bowl.
9. Stir in the sauce into the remaining oil and saute for 7 minutes.
10. Pour this sauce over the arranged chicken.
11. Enjoy!