My Home made Curry Chicken

For the past 2 weeks I have been eating outside. Woke up this morning ,thought I must cook something went market.After walking around and up and down and round and round.End up buying chicken,so what am going do with this ,okay I thought,let's cook chicken curry I thought.Then a another idea strike me why not post here maybe someone might like it.So here it is...My very first recipe...

 Make a paste:

1/2 onion

8 garlic

1 1/2 inch ginger

2 candle nuts soaked in water

Blend all the the ingredients

into fine paste.

ingredients for tempering:

2 curry leaves

1 star anise

3 cardamon

1 stick cinnamon

4 cloves

1/2 onion and 2 tbs oil

Rest of the stuff:

2-3 tomatoes

1 red chilly

1 green chilly

2 potatoes cut into 1/2s.

2 tsp salt

Curry powders(3 tbs coriander,1 tbs

chilly powder,1/2 tsp fennel powder,1/2 tsp cumin,1/2 tsp turmeric powder)

Or you can use ready pack meat

curry powder

4-5 tbs meat curry powder

1 Whole Chicken about 1.3 kg.
Chicken cut into reasonable size

Heat a pot and oil let it heat few seconds,

add all the tempering items

and stir for few seconds smell for the fragrance, let onion brown a bit.

Add chicken, curry powder and paste and stir for a while.(you can mix curry powder and paste with the chicken even before you put in the pot).Add rest of the stuff  and stir for a few seconds

Add 5 cups of water stir, close the lid of pot. and let it boil .

Let it boil. .(The whole process from Tempering to finish should be around 15 -20 minutes.)Taste

add salt if necessary.(optional:add 2 to3 tbs coconut milk to enhance the taste )Off the fire, sprinkle some parsley.It's ready to serve.

Had mine with rice and cucumber

salad to me it was YUMMY!