All the chicken lovers must be happy to see yet another chicken post. And all the chicken haters will be like, “oh no, here she is with a chicken recipe AGAIN,”. I’m sorry guys, I post so many non-veg recipes because I make it very often at home. My husband is a happy carnivore, hehe! But I promise, I will post some veg recipes soon even though I am a novice in that section.

But today’s recipe is all about the greens. Chicken and lots of green herbs joined hands together to create this amazing flavor packed curry named chicken hariyali. “Hariyali” means greenery in Hindi. This curry gets this name as lots of nutrient rich herbs like coriander and mint leaves are added to this.

I am so happy that I found this recipe, because it is extremely easy to prepare this. Really, the best part of this curry is that you don’t need onions. I so hate cutting onions and I’m sure many of you feel the same way. The other good thing is that you don’t have to add any elaborate spices. The flavor comes from the herbs, green chillies, lots of garlic and ginger. And the richness in the gravy is achieved from the coconut milk.

Haseena Auntyyy, thanks a ton for this super easy and delicious recipe. Haseena aunty is my most faav aunty in the world! <3 She is my bestie Sonia’s mom. I know her since I can remember. She is more like a mom to me. I love her and I looove her food. She makes the most yummiest and easiest dishes. Stay tuned as I will be soon posting another recipe of hers which is my faav. Till then, here is the method and list of ingredients to make hariyali chicken.

Ingredients:

• 500 g chicken
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp jeera powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 1/2 cup thick coconut milk or more if you need more gravy
• Salt to taste
• Oil As needed
• Coriander leaves to garnish

For the green paste:

• 2 spring onion (full white and half of green part)
• 4 green chillies
• 1/2 cup coriander leaves, chopped
• 1/4 cup mint leaves
• 10 cloves garlic
• 1 inch piece ginger

NOTES:

✔️ You can add 1/2 cup of mint leaves, if you like the flavor of it.

✔️ I added 5 green chillies as we like our curries spicy.

Method:

1.   Grind all the ingredients listed under green paste into a smooth paste.
2. Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan, and add in the paste. Sauté for 5 minutes.
3. Add in the jeera and garam masala powders.
4. Put in the chicken. Add salt. Cover and cook on low flame for about 40 minutes.
5. Open the lid and cook on high till the water that the chicken has released dries up a little.
6. Reduce heat to low again and pour in the lemon juice. Mix well.
7. Pour in the coconut milk and let it boil once. If you like to have more gravy pour more coconut milk. Switch off flame and garnish with coriander leaves.

Hariyali Chicken

Chicken curry made with coconut milk and green herbs like mints leaves and coriander leaves.

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Servings 3

Ingredients

  

INGREDIENTS

• 500 g chicken
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp jeera powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
• 1/2 cup thick coconut milk add more if you want more gravy
• Salt to taste
• Oil As needed
• Coriander leaves to garnish

For the green paste

• 2 spring onion full white and half of green part
• 4 green chillies
• 1/2 cup coriander leaves chopped
• 1/4 cup mint leaves
• 10 cloves garlic
• 1 inch piece ginger

Instructions

 

DIRECTIONS

• Grind all the ingredients listed under green paste into a smooth paste.
• Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan, and add in the paste. Sauté for 5 minutes.
• Add in the jeera and garam masala powders.
• Put in the chicken. Add salt. Cover and cook on low flame for about 40 minutes.
• Open the lid and cook on high till the water that the chicken has released dries up a little.
• Reduce heat to low again and pour in the lemon juice. Mix well.
• Pour in the coconut milk and let it boil once. Switch off flame and garnish with coriander leaves.

Notes

NOTES:
* You can add 1/2 cup of mint leaves, if you like the flavor of it.
* I added 5 green chillies as we like our curries spicy.