Chicken Stew........!!!!

This is my hubby's favorite. He loves it with ghee rice or bread! Both goes well with this. There are different ways of preparing stew all over the world. But this is my way of doing it.

Ingredients

Chicken                                        1 kg Onion                                        2 Potato                                        1 Carrot                                        1 (optional) Ginger(chopped)                       1 tbsp. Garlic(chopped)                        1 tbsp. Whole pepper                            1/2 tsp Cinnamon                                  1 stick (small) Cardamom                                 5 Cloves                                       5 Fennel seeds                               1/4 tsp Coconut milk(med thick)           2-3 cups Thick coconut milk                    1 cup Coconut oil

Curry Leaves

Salt

Method:

1. Crush together whole pepper, cinnamon stick, fennel seeds, cloves and cardamom.

2. In a pan heat coconut oil and add the crushed masala and sauté for a minute. Add sliced onions in to this and sauté until translucent.

3. Now add chicken pieces, potato, salt and med thick coconut milk and cover and cook.

4. Once the chicken is almost done, add carrots and cook until the chicken is well done.

5. Now add the thick coconut milk and cook over low flame for 5 mins.

6. You can boil it until you reach the desired consistency.

7. Garnish with curry leaves. If you like to add fried shallots you can add that as well.

8. Enjoy with ghee rice, chappatis or appams :) :)