Chicken Korma

A creamy, spiced Chicken Korma, consisting of chicken braised with yoghurt and spices to give a thick gravy full of flavors. This is my first entry to the Muslim Food Bloggers Challenge. This is the fourth event my dear friend Rafeeda is conducting. I missed all the previous challenges and I feel pretty bad aboutRead more

Paragon Style Alleppey Chicken Curry

This Alleppey Chicken Curry is a dish made with chicken simmered in coconut milk and Indian spices. The addition of crushed black peppercorns gives a wonderful aroma to the curry. This resembles the Alleppey Chicken Curry served at the famous Indian restaurant named Calicut Paragon. Firstly, I’ll start this post by thanking my BFF NimeenaRead more

Chicken Vella (White) Curry

Chicken vella curry is a very light and soothing curry. It doesn’t have any masala in it but still the gravy is full of flavors. It goes superbly well with ghee rice. After I fell for my Husband post marriage, the second thing I fell for was this Chicken Vella Curry. 😉 😀 This isRead more

Chicken Manchurian with Gravy

A popular Indo-Chinese dish – Chicken Manchurian. Deep fried succulent pieces of chicken tossed in a spicy and saucy gravy. Chicken Manchurian is my all time favorite. I used to love this dish since I was a child. Chicken Manchurian and Fried Rice is the ultimate combo. But this tastes great with noodles and plainRead more

Aleesa/Harees

Aleesa or Harees is a one pot wheat porridge made with chicken/ lamb and few spices. It originated in the Middle East but is also a popular dish among the Mappila of Kerala. This recipe which I posted here is the Mappila version. This particular recipe has been requested so many times by so manyRead more

Instant Badami Chicken Curry

A quick chicken curry where no sautéing is needed, everything gets cooked instantly in the pressure cooker. Finally to make the gravy rich and thick ground almond along with coconut milk is added.  As most of you know, one of my favorite kitchen tools is the Pressure Cooker. Seriously it is such a blessing. IRead more

Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Tikka Masala, succulent pieces of roasted chicken tikka in thick and spicy tomato based gravy. Chicken tikka masala is a very popular dish which you can find in almost all Indian restaurants. It is a close cousin to butter chicken. But I feel that the flavors are more intense in chicken tikka masala. AsRead more

Hyderabadi Dum Chicken

Hyderabadi Dum Chicken is a rich and flavorful curry which has a thick gravy made by cooking fried onions, yoghurt, cashew paste and many other spices on low heat till everything is blended together to form a rich, silky gravy. Hyderabadi food is very very tasty. Once you have it, you won’t forget the taste.Read more

Lazy Day Chicken Masala

A very simple and flavourful Chicken masala, made by cooking all the ingredients along with the chicken. No separate sautéing of ingredients needed. Perfect recipe for those lazy days.     Being lazy doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Everyone’s been there; you get up late in the morning or you get back fromRead more

Calicut Paragon Style Payyoli Chicken Fry

Payyoli chicken fry, a dry chicken fry with the authentic malabar flavours. The chicken is marinated with dried red chilli paste and many flavourful spices, deep fried in coconut oil and served with crispy and spicy fried coconut, curry leaves and green chillies.     This spicy and delicious chicken fry is quite popular inRead more

Herb & Spice Marinated Chicken

Herb and Spice Marinated Chicken, the best and easiest marinade ever! It is no-fuss and contains herbs and lots of spices making this very flavourful.  Me and Fadal are trying really hard to eat healthy nowadays. Last two weeks our menu had mainly chicken grills, soups, salads, fish grill etc etc. And we feel so goodRead more

shredded chicken chilli
shredded chicken chilli

Shredded Chicken Chilli

Firstly, let me inform you that this is not the Chinese version of chilli chicken, instead this is CHICKEN CHILLI! Confused? 😀 This is a spicy dry dish made of shredded fried chicken with a rich and spicy onion tomato masala. This is an Indian version….to be precise..Kerala version 🙂 You can find this type ofRead more