Chicken Xacuti - Recipe Book

Chicken Xacuti is a Popular Goan chicken curry. Chicken is cooked along with  spices, coconut and tamarind gravy. Try this flavorful curry at once and make your dine delightful. 

Ingredients:

1. Chicken- 500 gm


2. Grated coconut- 1/4 cup


3. Onion-1 medium chopped


4. Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp


5. Ghee-1 tbsp


6. Oil-1 tbsp


7. Onion sliced-1


8. Ginger garlic crushed-1 tbsp


9. Green chilly-1 or 2


10. Kashmiri dry red chilly-5


11. Cardamom- 2 no's


12. Nutmeg-1 small piece


13. clove-2 no's


14. Cinnamon-1 small piece


15. Coriander leaves chopped- 1/4 cup


16. Tamarind- half of a lemon sized ball


17. Salt-to taste

Preparation:

• Marinate the cleaned chicken pieces with turmeric powder, one onion chopped thinly, crushed ginger garlic, green chilly slit, salt and half of the coriander leaves chopped.


• Heat a tablespoon of oil in a pan; saute one onion sliced until soften. Add grated coconut and roast for another few minutes until coconut turns crisp and golden.


• Add in to a grinder; keep aside.


• In the same pan; dry roast cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cove, coriander seeds and dry red chilly for a minute.


• Mix it with the roasted coconut and add little water to make a smooth paste.


• Blend until smooth and keep aside.


• Heat a pan with 1 tbsp of ghee.


• Add the marinated chicken pieces along with its marination.


• Cook on medium flame for about 15 minutes


• After that add the blended coconut paste and mix well.


• Soak tamarind in 1/4 cup of hot water and take its pulp water.


• Add it in to the curry and cover cooks for another 10-15 minutes or until oil floats on top of the curry and chicken pieces gets nicely cooked. (After adding tamarind water; you can pressure cook the curry for one or two whistles;  because we needed to cook the chicken nice and tender).


• Check for salt and add the remaining corianader leaves on top.


• Switch off the flame and serve hot!!!!