West Indian

Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry)

Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry) is West Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Gluten free Dairy free

Ingredients

  • 2 lb chicken, curry cut
  • 2 onions
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tbsp grated ginger
  • 6 garlic cloves
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric
  • 1.5 tsp red chili powder
  • 1.5 tsp coriander powder
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 4 tbsp neutral oil
  • 1.5 cups water
  • 1.25 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp chopped cilantro

How to cook it

  1. Heat the oil in a heavy pot, add the chopped onion, and saute until deep golden brown, about 10 minutes.
  2. Add the ginger and garlic and cook another minute until fragrant.
  3. Stir in the turmeric, chili powder, and coriander powder, cook briefly, then add the chopped tomatoes and cook until soft and the oil separates, about 8 minutes.
  4. Add the chicken pieces and stir to coat well in the masala, cooking for 5 minutes.
  5. Pour in the water and salt, cover, and simmer until the chicken is fully cooked and tender, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  6. Sprinkle in the garam masala and simmer 2 more minutes.
  7. Garnish with cilantro and serve hot with bhakri or rice.

Serve it with

A West Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry)
Allergen In this dish
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy No
Gluten No
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.

Calorie band
Moderate
Protein
High
Protein quality
Complete
Food groups it covers
Meat or fish and Vegetables
How this was set
Hand audited

When to cook it

Ghati Chicken Curry (Home-Style Maharashtrian Chicken Curry) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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