CHICKEN & VEGETABLE STEW

Ingredients:

1. Chicken cooked and shredded - 1 cup
2. Carrot cubed - 1/2 cup

3. Potatoes cubed - 1 cup
4. Green Peas or chopped beans - 1/2 cup
5. Garlic - 10 cloves
6. Peppercorns - 1 tablespoon
7. Cloves - 3
8. Cinnamon - 1 stick
9. Cardamom - 1
10. Thick coconut milk - 1 cup
11. Curry leaves
12. salt - as required
13. Onion - 1 big
14. Coconut oil - 2 tablespoons
15. Garam masala powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Method:

Cook vegetables in 1/2 cup of water adding salt & keep aside. Please take care to do not over cook and turn their color. Heat Coconut Oil in a Kadai and add crushed pepper and crushed garlic into it. Saute for 1 minute and add coarsely crushed cloves, cinnamon and cardamom, continue stirring until nice aroma appears. Now add finely chopped onions to it. Saute until onions turn transparent. Add shredded chicken pieces and curry leaves and saute for 2 minutes. Now add cooked vegetables straining water and mix well with the other ingredients. Add salt and garam masala powder. Mix everything well and saute for 1 more minute. Now add coconut milk. Simmer down fire. Do not allow coconut milk to boil. Add strained water from cooked vegetables if want to loosen consistency of gravy. Remove from fire when cocnut milk is about to boil.

Apt with idiyappam, velleppam, palappam etc.