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Sri Lanka Chicken Khorma With Yogurt

Type: Chicken, Poultry
Serves: 1 people

Recipe Ingredients

1 1/3   Chicken
175   Yogurt - plain
1 teaspoon 5mlTurmeric
4   Garlic cloves
1   Onion
3   Ginger
5   Clove
5   Cardamom
40   Coconut
25   Almonds
100   Oil
20   Milligrams cinnamon stick
25   Coriander
1 teaspoon 5mlCumin
1 teaspoon 5mlChile powder
1 teaspoon 5mlPaprika
1 teaspoon 5mlSalt

Recipe Instructions

Wash and joint the chicken and place in a large bowl. Mix the yogurt, turmeric and 1 crushed clove of garlic together and pour over the chicken. Leave overnight.

Chop the onion and grind in a pestle and mortar the remaining garlic and the ginger. Crush the cloves and cardamoms, grate the coconut and roast the almonds.

Heat the oil, fry the onion, garlic and ginger and when fragrant turn down the heat slightly and add the cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon stick, coriander powder, cumin powder, chile powder, paprika powder and salt. Stir fry for 3 minutes.

Add the coconut and stir in. Add the chicken and marinade, mix well and then cover pan with a lid and simmer for approximately 1 hour, or until chicken is tender.

Discard the cinnamon stick and sprinkle the almonds on top just prior to serving.

Source:
A taste of Sri Lanka" Indra Jayasekera

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