10/19/2010--Traditional Chicken Curry and Beans Fry

I cook this a lot and every time i do my apartment stinks like indian food for like 5 days but whatever i love it. I found literally crates of green beans at Giant Eagle shockingly and decided to indianfy them. Here are both recipes with pictures!

Traditonal Chicken Curry



2 lbs chicken (breast whatever you want)-cut into 1 inch pieces
1 large onion- chopped
1 medium tomato diced
4-5 thai chillis (you can adjust based on how hot you want them-sliced
3 Caradamum cloves
2-3 black cloves
1tsp Haldi
1 tblsp garam masala
1 tblsp salt
1/2 tblsp chili powder
1 tblsp ginger garlic paste
Cilantro to taste

Heat some oil about 1/3 of a cup or less in a large skillet with the cloves and cardamum. Once the oil is hot/warm add the onions and chillis. COok both until they are translucent and light brown. Add the 1 tblsp ginger garlic paste and let it cook for about 2 min. Once the paste and onions have cooked together add the chicken, haldi, and chili powder and let the chicken cook until the chicken is cooked on the outside which is about 10 min. Add the diced tomatos and and let it simmer until the tomatos are completely broken up and have become a part of the gravy. Add the garam masala and salt and let it simmer for about 10 more minutes. Add the chopped cilantro and serve with rice (i like brown).

Grean beans




some green beans-my mom uses french cut i used wahtever
1/2 onion diced
2-4 chilis sliced
5 tblspish channa (doesnt matter how much you put)
1 tsp mustard seeds
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tblsp chili powder
salt to taste
4-5 curry leaves

Heat the oil in a skillet. Add the mustard seeds, cumin, channa dal and curry leaves into the pan. BE CAREFUL! as mustard seeds get hot and they start to pop and it can get scary. Add the onions and chilis and cook until they are translucent. Add the Beans let the beans cook to wahtever consistency you like them at. I like beans half cooked because if they are cooked too long they get sorta soggy. This is important: always add the chili powder and salt right before you turn off the stove because if not the salt will burn and the chili powder will make you have a cough attack. So right before you turn off the stove ad the salt and chili powder