Name: Hot chicken curry from Kolhapur
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 5 large garlic cloves, roughly chopped; 1–2 fresh green chillies, deseeded and cut into julienne strips, to garnish; 5 ml/1 tsp salt, or to taste; 25 g/1 oz/⅓ cup desiccated (dry unsweetened shredded) coconut; 1 large onion, roughly chopped; 2.5 cm/1 in piece of fresh root ginger, chopped; 115 g/4 oz canned chopped tomatoes, with their juice; 5 ml/1 tsp ground turmeric; 10 ml/2 tsp gram flour (besan); 1 small tomato, deseeded and cut into julienne strips, to garnish; 2.5 ml/72 tsp ground black pepper; 115 g/4oz/½ cup natural (plain) yogurt; 1.1 kg/2½lb chicken joints; 15 ml/1 tbsp chopped fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves; 5–10ml/1–2 tsp chilli powder; 6 cloves; 6 green cardamom pods, bruised; 5 cm/2 in piece of cinnamon stick, halved; 2.5 ml/72 tsp garam masala; 60 ml/4 tbsp sunflower oil or olive oil; Plain Boiled Rice, to serve

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Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook

By Mridula Baljekar

Published 2017

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This very hot curry, Murgh Kolhapuri, comes from the small town of Kolhapur, in the state of Maharashtra. Large amounts of chillies as well as hot spices such as cloves and peppercorns are used, but the final taste is balanced by the sweetness of a generous amount of onion, yogurt and coconut. For a milder taste, reduce the amount of chillies, peppercorns and cloves or add extra coconut and yogurt.

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