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.
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
- Heat the oil in a heavy pot, add the chopped onion, and saute until deep golden brown, about 10 minutes.
- Add the ginger and garlic and cook another minute until fragrant.
- 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.
- Add the chicken pieces and stir to coat well in the masala, cooking for 5 minutes.
- Pour in the water and salt, cover, and simmer until the chicken is fully cooked and tender, about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Sprinkle in the garam masala and simmer 2 more minutes.
- 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.
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The cooked vegetable
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
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.
| 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.
Watch someone make it
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, onion, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from West India.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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