Chicken Ceylon Style Sri Lanka Recipes

SRI LANKAN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces. Combine the vinegar, tamarind juice, 1/4 cup curry powder, salt, and pepper in a bowl. Add chicken and toss to coat.
• Heat the coconut oil in a wok or frying pan over medium heat. Cook the sliced onion, green chiles, cardamom pods, cloves, curry leaves, ginger, and cinnamon stick until the onion has softened and turned translucent, about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium-low, and continue cooking and stirring until the onion is very tender and dark brown, 15 to 20 minutes more. Stir in the garlic and cook for an additional minute.
• Add the chicken mixture, water, and tomato paste. Stir and simmer until the chicken is cooked through, about 10 minutes. Add the roasted curry powder and stir until evenly dispersed.
• Gradually stir in the coconut milk and simmer for 2-3 more minutes. (Do not overheat or the coconut milk may curdle.)

CHICKEN CEYLON STYLE (SRI LANKA)

Steps:

• Mix buttermilk and garlic powder in bowl. Add chicken and let marinate 2 hours or more. Baste and turn often.
• Melt butter in a deep skillet and saute onions 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Meanwhile, mix salt, ginger, curry and cornstarch together in a small bowl and sprinkle over onions, stirring until well blended.
• Drain the chicken (reserve the buttermilk) and cook the chicken in the same skillet until lightly browned. Stir in buttermilk. Cover and cook over low heat 1 1/2 hours or until chicken is tender. Baste frequently.

KUKUL MAS MALUWA (SRI LANKAN CHICKEN CURRY)

Steps:

• In a small skillet, combine the coriander, cumin, fennel, cardamom, peppercorns and 15 curry leaves. Heat the spice mixture over medium heat, stirring often, until the spices are toasted and fragrant, 5 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a spice grinder and grind into powder. (You should have about 3 1/2 tablespoons.) Set aside the toasted curry powder.
• In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, heat the coconut oil over medium-high. Add the onion, garlic and ginger, and cook, stirring often, until the onion has softened, about 8 minutes. Add the toasted curry powder, paprika, turmeric and salt, and cook, stirring, another 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the tomatoes, chiles and remaining 5 curry leaves.
• Add the chicken and toss to cover it in the onion mixture. Add the pandan, cinnamon and lemongrass, reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook, for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Add the coconut milk and simmer, uncovered and stirring occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened slightly, about 20 minutes more. (The light meat will be cooked before the dark meat; you can simply remove it when it's done and add it back in when the dark meat is cooked.)
• Add the vinegar and season to taste with salt.

SRI LANKA COCONUT-YOGURT CHICKEN OVER RICE STICKS

Steps:

• Cut chicken up into bite size pieces removing the skin, fat and discarding the backbone. Use a folk to hold the tomato and then over a flame, which will cause the.
• skin to blister. then remove the skin. Do the same with the second tomato and then chop both tomatoes up.
• Cooking Instructions-.
• In a big pot add 3 tablespoons oil and 1 tablespoon gee. Add the onion, fennel seeds, pepper flakes, cardamom seeds, cinnamon stick, garlic, turmeric, salt, paprika, ½ teaspoon curry powder (or more to taste), ginger, chopped tomatoes. Cook and stir until the onions are a nice brown.
• Add the coconut milk and yogurt. Stir until smooth.
• Add the chicken pieces and toss.
• Cook uncovered, stirring from time-to-time for about 1 hour... until the sauce is reduced to a thick consistency.
• While the chicken is cooking (15 minutes before it is finished), in a big wok add the can of chicken broth and bring to a boil. When boiling turn off the heat and add the rice sticks. Toss with a folk to loosen up the strands. Let sit for about 5 plus minutes. Remove into a colander.
• In the dried wok, add 3 tablespoons oil and ½ teaspoon curry powder (or more to taste). Add the rice sticks, toss with a folk to loosen the strands and cook to "al dente".
• Remove the rice sticks to a nice size plate and spread out.
• Add the chicken pieces in the center and with the sauce on top.
• Add slices of orange around the edges of the plate.
• Serve and enjoy!

CEYLON CHICKEN KARI

Steps:

• Start with 4 large tomatoes. Cored, and bottoms slashed crossways. Plunge into boiling water. Bring back to the boil for 30 secs then remove. When cool slip off the skins and pulse for a couple of secs in blender then set aside in a bowl.
• Make the kick-off paste: In a blender/food chopper add the garlic, ginger, chillies, onion, lemon juice and a little water. Blitz and add a little more water if needed until a thickish paste is formed (free of any lumps). Add a little more water and blitz again to rid the paste of lumps. Set aside.
• Make the "Kari" powder: Grind in a spice grinder... 1 heaped tspn yellow mustard seeds 1 heaped tspn cumin seeds 7 cardamom pods 1 heaped tspn coriander seeds 3 cloves Add 1 tspn hot chilli powder (optional) 1 heaped tspn of peppercorns
• Prepare the "frying spice: 1 heaped tspn yellow mustard seeds 1 heaped tspn cumin seeds 3 green cardamom pods 1 heaped tspn coriander seeds
• Heat oil in a deep large pan, when almost smoking, turn heat down to minimum, and add the "frying spices". Cook until seeds pop - a few secs. Add the prepared ginger/garlic kick-off paste and the star anise. Turn heat down and stir in and cook gently stirring occasionally for 15mins. Remove star anise.
• Now add the pulped tomatoes. Stir in and mix and then add and mix in the prepared "Kari powder". Cook with lid on, occasionally stirring/shaking approx. 15 mins.
• Add the fresh curry leaves, 1 can coconut milk. Bring to boil and mix thoroughly. Turn heat down to low and cook for 15mins covered.
• Add chicken pieces. Add water to cover if needed and cook slowly in oven or on stove covered.until chicken is done. Then add chopped coriander stirred into dish and keep warm
• For the rice: Whilst chicken is cooking make the rice: For 1 part of basmati rice use combined coconut milk and water - 2 parts. Do *not* rinse the rice. In a decent sized pot add the above recommended combination of rice and water/coconut milk and cinnamon stick, and salt. Bring to fast boil for 5 mins covered. Remove from heat keep covered and allow to stand for 15-20 mins before serving.