A 30 Minutes Dish - Chicken Curry with Potatoes
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007Filed Under Chicken, India - Kerala, Mains, Potato
Wow, have I gotten lazy or what? I don’t know if it is the cold, or it is just the holiday spirit around, I have been a bad bad blogger lately. I rarely visit other foodies, I don’t reply to the comments on my blog, and even though I have a few recipes and restaurants in my drafts to write about, I just don’t feel like getting around to it. And as far as blog events are concerned, I have been ignoring those for a while now. But I think it is not just me, things have been a little quite around a blogosphere lately. Hopefully things will get back to normal next month.
These days, we are eating out most days, catching up with friends. When we do cook, it is normally something very simple. Last week I got home pretty tired, in no mood to go out or cook. Siv called from work to check what he can pick up for dinner. We just couldn’t think of anything that we both like, I had Chinese for lunch, and he had Malaysian. We did an Indian take out the previous night, and Thai the night before. We were both not in the mood for burgers or sandwiches. We brainstormed for a while, and finally it was getting more tiring to think of a place to pick up food from than actually cooking. So I asked him to just come home, I will just “whip something up”. It took him about thirty minutes to get home, by the time he was home I was done with this chicken curry! Not bad, huh?
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs Chicken Breast /thighs – bone-in, skinless cuts will be the best
- 1.5 cups Diced Onions (1 large onion)
- A few curry leaves
- 1 tbsp Readymade ginger paste
- 1 tbsp Readymade garlic paste
- 1 cup diced tomatoes ( 2 medium Roma tomatoes)
- 6-8 baby potatoes quartered
- 1 tbsp Red chili powder
- 2 tbsp Coriander powder
- ¼ tsp Turmeric powder
- 5 Cardamom pods
- 3 Cloves
- 1” piece of Cinnamon
- 1 tbsp oil
- 1 cup hot water
Method
Here is the order in which I did things to save time. You can always cut the chicken and veggies in advance, and do this in a more relaxed pace. But follow this order, and you will be done in about 20-25 minutes.
- Keep a large pressure cooker or a deep frying pan with a tight lid on the stove, add the oil, and keep the heat on medium .
- Dice the onion into thin pieces, by the time you finish cutting at least half the onion, the oil will be hot.
- Add the cardamom, cloves and cinnamon to the oil, in between cutting the onions.
- When the spices just start to brown, add the diced onions (what you cut so far) into the oil, and stir well.
- Finish cutting the remaining onion as fast as you can, and add those onion pieces into the cooker as well.
- Add the curry leaves and stir well to combine.
- Cut the chicken into medium sized pieces when the onions are getting fried.
- Add the chili powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder to the onions and stir well to combine.
- Let the spice powders brown, while stirring frequently.
- Add the chicken pieces and stir well.
- Add the ginger and garlic pastes to the pan and mix well.
- Increase the heat, and let the chicken pieces cook, in the mean time dice the tomatoes.
- Add the tomatoes and mix well, and cook till all the ingredients are well blended.
- In the mean time, skin and quarter the potatoes, stir the chicken once in a while.
- Add the quartered potatoes and hot water to the pressure cooker/pan and close it.
- If you are pressure cooking, reduce the heat to medium high after the first whistle and cook for about 4 minutes. If cooking in a pan, cook for about 12 minutes, or till when the chicken pieces are tender.
A tasty chicken curry is ready in a matter of minutes. We had this with chapattis, since I had some in the freezer. But this gravy goes better with rice.
Note: I used the readymade pastes for ginger and garlic, but if you don’t have these, you can just chop the ginger and garlic into tiny pieces, don’t bother making a paste…
Look at that… there is no grinding involved! So, I am sending this to Sra of When my soup came alive for her Grindless Gravies event.
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Where are my fake chicken pieces?
Haha.. that is a good one
You even managed to send it to an event. All this when you were brainstorming take out with your hubby 
I love potatoes in chicken curry. Nice one Sig
Hi Sig!! My dad used to make a curry with lamb n potatoes. Chicken n potatoes is something very different but it looks so delicious!!Now I definitely need these express recipes dear as I am down with flu along with Noel just before christmas so that rocky can manage all by himself!!
Thats pretty impressive.. u managed to cook and take a pic worthy to be posted!!! Today i brainstormed between salad, upma, shalimar chicken legs and guess what shalimar chicken legs won
Feeling darn guilty eating out !!!
Hey Sig, thanks a lot. Looks delicious. I’m suffering some post-lunch stupor and yet I’m drooling over this. You seem to have a good amount of gravy too!
sig, i am drooling…
i love making it this way!
That is one tasty 30 min meal!! YUMM-O!!:)
hey, ur gravies always come out so good
i too follow similar steps, sometimes i add cumin pwd, if available.
how about canned tomatoes to save another min….lol
Wow…thats one good looking chicken curry. I love the picture. Good job Sig.
Chicken and potato curry is one of our favourites…I thought only we(Assamese) and the Bengalis added potatoes to our chicken…doesn’t it taste awesome..and very similar to the way we make it…you’re tempting me now
That is what i call a fast tasty dish.
I guess it is the holiday period so everybody is busy so no time for blogging
Looks really good, Sig! Oh, and as for blogging, i haven’t blogged/blog-hopped in a while…..he he
You are a good blogger, keeping us posted with your Spain trip and now this lovely dish! I also chop the onions as the oil heats 
Hey!! Sig, thats cool. I and hubby cooked something similar with chicken and potatoes. A quick and easy one. Turned out gr8. But it was a thicker version. Your looks yumm…
Great one Sig, brainstorming in the kitchen brings wonders. Love the fact you were able to make this an event dish too! LOL!
gorgeous chicken curry…yummmm ***** drooolll***.
great!! i can make this with only tatoes and lima beand perhaps..i have been noticing things going easy too..maybe b’coz people are on vacations or just getting freakin lazy
…aah..sra gets satisfied finally..good going sig 
Hey 30-minute-girl!
This sounds quick and delicious. And you even took a fabulous picture
Hey Sig, I have been following your site for a while now, I am a big fan.
Just wanted to wish you and Siv Happy Holidays.
Hey Sig,
I stumbled upon your blog while looking for other foodies. I stuck around since I saw you’re from Seattle. My husband and I are moving there this coming year and are soooooooo looking forward to it. I’m definitely going to use your reviews of restaurants. I modified and tried out your mushroom recipe and have put it on my blog. Happy Holidays!
Hmm…how come I use this chopping-onions-as-fast-as-I-can-to-put-into-the-heated-oil-with-tadka-already-done-and-on-the-verge-of-burning-technique, even when I have more than half an hour to cook?!
The curry looks delicious, chicken and potatoes makes a lovely combination!
Enough of that!!!Drooled me more than enough!
I have wine in my site..I desperately need you there,cocktail lady..Cheers
Happy hols..
Merry Xmas!
It is indeed one of the easiet, simplest, flavour, gourmet dishes one can whip up in no time. I love curried chicken with potatoes.
Happy Holidays to you and Siv!
30 min chicken curry….thts really impressive…:)
Thanks for all the great posts this year, Sig.
Enjoy your holidays and Wish you and Siv a Wonderous New Year of health, happiness and success!
I can just imagine eating out everyday, i will be dying for some simple home cooked food.I remember one time i was so happy to eat rice, curds and pickle
Chicken curry in a hurry, looks good. Happy holidays,sig.
That looks lovely… must try it with just potatoes.
Hey Sig,
I have been a bad blogger too.
Dec has been a quiet month for me too…blogwise
Just popped in to wish both of you. Hope you are enjoying the holiday season.
hi Sig, i am married to a bong and bongs use potatoes in almost everything…and I turst it adds on to the flavor…tried the recpie…my hubby freaked out..not only becoz of the taste but also because by the time he freshened up the dish was ready hehehehe…I am veg though, but if my hubby says its nice…i am sure its wonderful…great going
Hi Sig:
I tried the chicken curry and it came out good. this is the first i made chicken with potato. thank you for the recipe.
geena