Chicken cooked and roasted in spicy onion tomato gravy. This recipe is adapted from my mom and a quite easy kerala style chicken tomato roast recipe. Must dish for Sunday lunch and any other special occasions. One of my favorites and a quite delicious one! Goes well with rice and chapathi / Indian breads.
For more Kerala chicken recipes, check out
Pepper Chicken Roast
Chicken Curry
Chicken curry with coconut milk
Chicken Stew
Chicken cutlet
Chicken fry
Chicken biriyani
Ingredients
- 1 Kilogram chicken
Marination
- 2 tsps Chilly Powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric Powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
Gravy
- 6 Onions (medium)
- salt
- 3 sprig curry leaves
- 4 green chilly
- 1 tablespoon garlic paste
- 1 tablespoon ginger paste
- 4 Teaspoons Chilly Powder
- 5 Teaspoons coriander Powder
- 2 Teaspoons fennel powder
- 2 Teaspoons garam masala Powder
- 4 tomato (medium)
- 2 tbsps coriander leaves
- coconut oil / vegetable oil
Garnish
- 1 teaspoon ghee
- 2 tbsps cashew nut
- coriander leaves
Instructions
- Marinate chicken with ingredients listed under marination for 1 hour
- Heat oil in a pan. Add sliced onion, green chillies, curry leaves and some salt. Salt absorbs moisture from onion and helps onion to get cooked fast.
- Once onion turns brown, add ginger and garlic paste and saute it well. ** Onion should be well sauteed in this recipe. So never compromise on this step 🙂
- Add chilli powder, coriander powder,fennel powder and garam masala powder to the above mix and saute it well. Add oil as required.
- Add chopped tomatoes to the mix and saute well
- Once tomatoes are cooked well, adjust salt in the gravy. Add marinated chicken pieces to it. Add some chopped coriander leaves.
- Cook until chicken is cooked and the gravy is consistent. Allow water to dry up from the gravy.
- If you want a dry roast, saute it for some more time. Add 1 - 2 tablespoon oil if needed. Mostly, chicken fat will help you to roast and you might not need extra oil. Garnish it with coriander leaves and ghee roasted cashew nuts.
janechechi this luks yummy... have u used chicken masala powder or is it the plain garam masala?
Soumya, I used plain garam masala powder .
Jane chechi , curry looks yummy :) Are the measurements in tsp ?
and is it Small Onion ?
Measurements are in tsp. I have updated :) And it is normal onion.
Hi Jane, the roast was excellent ! Here's my wife's special thanks. My 3 yr. old son who never took chicken before was literally in the roast pot yesternight during supper.
Thanks a lot for trying it out :)
tried and tastes good.. i added a bit of whipped curd to make it a currry...
Only one word . . . Awesome :) . . Just made it and it is arguably the best chicken dish I have made . . Although used up all the onions and tomatoes mom had kept . . You should say the size of onion too . . I used mediumish large onions . . and 5 to 6 sufficed . . and four tomatoes again mediumish large 4 :) . .
Looks great to see. Today I must try
Simply Delicious.. my kids and hubby love it!!
Thanks Lakshmy :) Yasmin, Try it out and let me know how it turned out for you..