Chicken iguru

Ingredients:

• 250 grams of chicken

• ½ cup ripe tomatoes (chopped)

• 10 mint leaves chopped (optinal )

• ¾ cup to 1 cup onions finely chopped

• 2 green chilies slit 

• 1 ½ tsp ginger garlic paste

• ½ tsp red chili powder

• 1 tsp coriander powder 

• ⅛ tsp turmeric

• 1 tsp. of chicken masala powder 

• 2 to 3 tsp oil

• few Coriander leaves chopped

• 1 sprig curry leaves

• ¼ tsp cumin / jeera

• 1 ½ tbsp fresh coconut paste

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Method:

1. Heat oil in a deep pan, add cumin, curry leaves and green chills. Allow them to crackle.
   
2. Add onions and sprinkle salt. Fry for 2 minutes.
   
3. Add tomatoes, ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes off. Fry till tomatoes turn mushy.
   
4. Add salt,turmeric, red chili powder,coriander powder and fry for 2 mins.
   
5. Add chicken and fry on medium high till it turns white in color. Takes around 3 min
   
6. Add chicken  masala and coconut paste if using.
   
7. Simmer the flame and cover the pan with a lid and let it cook for 4 to 5 mins. By then chicken should begin to release moisture. Mix well and continue to cook till the moisture evaporates.
   
8.  Add very little water and lower the flame. Cooking on a low flame yields a good curry.  switch off when the curry thickens. Add coriander leaves.
   
9.  Serve chicken iguru with rice.