Chicken Kulambu is a traditional spicy curry made by cooking chicken with spice powders, onion, tomato, chilli & herbs. Chicken Kulambu makes the family come for more for its taste. Chicken Kulambu is a wonderful combo with rice, idli, dosa and chapati. Chicken Kuzhambu Recipe explained in this post with step by step pictures.
Chicken Kulambu it is finally. Chicken Kulambu pairs as a great sidedish for rice, idli, dosa etc.
I always have small incidents associated with my props…Few months ago, when we visited Haribhavanam I saw cute varied sized buckets used for serving gravies. I loved them so much and wondered where do they get these A day later I saw the same buckets at Nilgiris I was overjoyed and immediately picked the smallest one and made this kuzhambu the next day and clicked it.
As I’ve started exploring nonveg recipes, the first few on my list were all chicken recipes. When I was googling found this recipe quite interesting and it turned out super good.
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Chicken Kulambu | Chicken Kuzhambu
Ingredients
- 1/2 kg chicken with bones
- 1 medium sized big onion
- 10 nos small onion
- 1 tomato
- 1 tsp ghee
- 1 tsp red chilli powder
- 1/2 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp garam masala powder
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- salt to taste
- 1 tbsp coriander leaves
- 1 cup water as needed
To Temper :
- 1/2 bayleaf
- 1/2 inch cinnamon
- 1 cardamom
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1/2 inch ginger
- 1 green chilli slitted
- few curry leaves
- 1 tbsp oil
To Grind:
- 1/4 cup coconut
- 4 cashews
- 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
- 1/2 tsp pepper corns
- 1 tsp roasted fried gram dal
Notes
- You can even add ginger garlic paste instead of chopped ginger and garlic.
- Adjust spice level to your taste, the above recipe is just medium spicy as it suits our family.
- The color of the curry depends purely on the red chilli variety used.
How to make Chicken Kulambu
- First grind the ingredients listed under ‘to grind’ to a fine paste. Keep aside. Clean and wash chicken and keep it ready.
- In a pressure cooker heat oil + ghee and add the ingredients listed under ‘to temper’ and fry for 2mins then add onion and tomato.
- Fry well till raw smell of tomato leaves. Then add chicken with garam masala, red chilli and coriander powders.Fry well for 3-5mins, Add required salt and mix well.
- Add 1 cup of water and pressure cook for 3-4 whistles. Once pressure releases, add the coconut paste.
- Mix well, simmer for 10mins and allow it to boil till oil seperates. Adjust salt at this stage. While switching off, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Serve with hot steamed rice. Give atleast an hour of resting time. Enjoy it with rice for lunch and use the leftover with rotis for dinner, tastes best.
Expert Tips
- You can even add ginger garlic paste instead of chopped ginger and garlic.
- Adjust spice level to your taste, the above recipe is just medium spicy as it suits our family.
- The color of the curry depends purely on the red chilli variety used.
Reshmi Mahesh
Chicken kuzhambu looks very tempting…Love with chapathi…Loved the curry bucket…cute…
Paaka Shaale
That is indeed a very cute bucket!!! The curry looks very tempting. Great photography as usual 🙂
Ramya Bala
Chicken curry looks gr8 🙂 My chicken curry also has almost the same ingredients, except for that cashews..I add pottukadalai or sometimes only poppy seed for the thickness 🙂
ANU
wow luv the cute bucket..that holds this awesome chicken curry! impressive 🙂
Shabitha Karthikeyan
Cute bucket Sharmi. Gravy looks very tempting !! Super clicks !!
runnergirlinthekitchen.blogspot.com
A bucket full of delicious goodness..mouthwatering!
Madhu Pravin
Haribhavanam serves authentic chettinad dish n I jus love the Kal Dosai they serve there 🙂 one of my fav hangouts 🙂 yummy chicken kuzhambu n mouth-watering 🙂 lemme try n let u know 🙂
Valarmathi Sanjeev
These type of props are great for indian food photography. Looks cute and the dish looks absolutely delicious.
Priya
Mouthwatering here, wat a terrific and super tempting dish..
Nalini's Kitchen
Cute looking bucket,nice prop to take food picture.The chicken kulambhu looks tempting,we do make it almost the same way but use poppy seeds instead of pottukadalai…
Suja Manoj
Yummy chicken curry,so tempting and cute buckets..
M D
Beautiful pics Sharmi!
Abraham Chacko
Yummy chicken curry
Sangeetha
Very delicious chicken curry, i too make it almost the same way except the addition of cashew nuts, n also i add few chopped mint leaves before pressure cook…but it looks so tempting n yummy thru your camera/pictures 🙂 very nice bucket, i am also eagerly waiting for our VISA extension result, if negative will be more happy in one way that i can buy whichever props/things i need for my food photography…really i envy your style,props,pics :))
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Mélange
This Kuzhambu looks extremely delicious.I think addition of pottukadalai and all is something new to me..looks rich and authentic..
Shabbu
yummy chicken curry in cute bucket…delicious..
Shabbu's Tasty Kitchen
Supriya's Rasoi
Shrami the presentation is so nice. The curry looks very tempting.
manjooo
Yummmm…as usual nice clicks!!!
Debs @ The Spanish Wok
OMG this looks so delicious. Come join my event…..
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Dear sharmilee akka
I made it yesterday.waw turned out great.
What a surprise my dad he gave me good comment.There is no leftover akka as usually it happens.
Every one in my family apperiated me.
All because of god and u akka.
Though the preparation was little long,it was nice.i got confident after putting on the pressure.
Thank u akka.
Regards,
Mymoon
Rathipriya Surendhar
Hi Sharmi,
I did chicken curry yesterday night for dinner. Just followed the above steps..it came out really well as usual..thanks for the recipe 🙂
Dhans
I tried today and it came good. Thanks for sharing the recipe
Archana Shekar
hi sharmi i tried your chicken kozhmbu it came out very well me and husband liked it very much do keep posting more tasty recipes
Archana Shekar
hi tried ur recipe cam eout very well my husband liked it do keep posting more tasty recipes
Shobana Vijay
Interesting …texture looks great dear.I never add chutney deal for grinding
Shobas Delight
Krithika Premkumar
Mrs.sharmi… i just saw this chicken kuzhambu recipie.i am going to try it today… thanks for the recipie.
Jaya
I made this recipe today. loved it and so easy to make.
Megella
This kuzhambu was some what different from any other chicken kuzhambu I had tried, my family loved it and me too, added potatoes since kids love it. The coriander leaves added to the aroma….and surely will make it again. Thumbs Up !
baskar
sharmi good day
you not mention when to add the grinded paste ?
SHARMILEE J
Check step4..I have mentioned to add the coconut paste
naveen m
Thanks
naveen m
Hi mam:-)
We r bachelors living seperate from home..wenever we r cookin we used to cal mom n ask each n everything but nowadays not lyk dat coz ur blog made everything simple. Really thanks a lot mam
cindrella in form
Asusal mouthwatering recipe
I have become a great fan of u
vidya jayraj
I just tried out your chicken curry recipe. It came out so delicious. For a very long time I was searching for a good recipe. Today I finally found it. Thank you so much. God bless
Noreen Juanita
Dear Sharmi, I think its high time I thanked u for coming to my rescue and making me believe tat I too can cook. I used to be a disaster in the kitchen but now I ve greatly improved. I wud surely say u are an angel in disguise. Nd yes the chicken Kuzhambu was a sooper dooper hit 🙂 God bless. Keep rocking 🙂
collins
I tried this recepie. It was really delicious. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Savita
Hi Ms Sharmilee ur recipe says small onions 10 no. But ubhv not mentioned where to add them can u pls guide…
Sharmilee J
kindly check step2 pic
Savita
Hi Sharmilee,
U have mentioned Small Onions no. pls guide as to where to add them.
Sharmilee J
Add it along with big onions itself in step2