Excellent Chicken Vindaloo Recipes

CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Toast the turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, coriander, cloves, cumin, paprika, and cayenne pepper in a Dutch oven or large pot over medium-low heat until the spices are fragrant, about 2 minutes. Stir the spices constantly as they toast, taking care that they do not burn. Stir in the olive oil, onion, garlic, and ginger. Increase heat to medium, and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in the tomato paste until no lumps of paste remain. Add the chicken, potatoes, tomatoes, chicken broth, wine vinegar, and bay leaf. Bring to a boil over high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer until the potatoes are tender, and the chicken is no longer pink in the center, about 15 minutes. Remove the cover, and cook 5 minutes more to thicken slightly. Season to taste with salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper to serve.

CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Soak the chiles in the vinegar in a small bowl for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place the onions in a food processor and process until they become a paste. Transfer to a large bowl and set aside. Place the ginger and garlic in the food processor and process until they become a paste. Transfer to a small bowl and set aside. When the chiles are done soaking, place in the food processor and process until they become a paste. Transfer to a small bowl and set aside.
• Heat a large pot over medium-high heat. Add the vegetable oil and heat it. Add the bay leaves, cloves, cardamom pods, cumin seed and cinnamon stick and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes. Add the onion paste and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Add the ginger and garlic paste and cook, stirring occasionally, until the raw taste of the garlic goes away, about 10 minutes.
• Stir in the tomato puree. Add the chile paste, Kashmiri red chile powder, red chile powder, coriander, cumin, garam masala, turmeric powder and 1 tablespoon salt. Cover and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. Add the chicken and potatoes, cover and cook over medium-low heat, stirring occasionally, until the chicken is cooked through and the potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the cilantro. Serve with rice.

CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Salt and pepper the chicken quarters. Heat a large frying pan and brown the chicken in the Ghee. You will have to do this in two batches.
• Remove the chicken to a 6-quart stove-top covered casserole, leaving the fat in the pan.
• Add the garlic and onion to the pan and sauté until golden brown.
• Add to the casserole along with the ginger, cumin, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, cayenne, and paprika.
• Sauté all for a few minutes and add all the remaining ingredients except for the garnishes.
• Cover and simmer until the chicken is tender. about 45 minutes. Stir a few times during cooking; partially remove the lid during the last 10 minutes or so to thicken the sauce. Top with garnishes.
• Ghee: Butter that is cooked to separate the clear butter fat from the milk solids and moisture, an ingenious method that allows butter to keep for long periods of time.
• Tamarind: Tamarind paste and concentrate, fresh products, are available in the produce section of many ethnic markets. Both products, made from the tamarind pod, need to be reconstituted.

CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• To prepare the chicken, mix the lemon juice, diced chicken, vinegar, garlic and ginger together in a large bowl with the dried spices. Cover and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 3-4 hours, or overnight.
• Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat and add the spices, onion and salt. Cook, stirring, until the onion is browned but not burnt, about 10-15 mins. Reduce the heat to medium and add the marinated chicken. Cook, stirring, for another 5 mins. Add a splash of water, reduce the heat slightly, cover and simmer for 15-20 mins until the chicken is cooked through.
• Garnish with some coriander and crispy onions and serve with flatbreads, if you like.

CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Heat oil.
• Fry onions, ginger-garlic paste, cloves, cardamom, cinnamon until onions are golden brown on medium heat.
• In a small bowl, put the cayenne pepper, turmeric, cumin, all spice, and make a watery paste with some water.
• Add it to the onions.
• Fry for about 3 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and when tomatoes, onions and spices make a sauce, add vindaloo paste.
• Cook for about 2 minutes and add chicken and a cup of water.
• Cover and cook, stirring occasionally until done.
• When it's almost done, add green coriander.
• Cook until done.

CHUNKY CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Melt the ghee in a large pan and fry the onions till soft and golden.
• Add the chillis, ginger, garlic, turmeric, coriander and garam masala, fry for 3 minutes.
• Add the vinegar and water stir and add the chicken bring to the boil, cover the pan and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Remove the lid from the pan and boil to reduce the liquid by half.
• Add the salt and coconut, replace the lid and simmer on low for 15 minutes.

SLOW-SIMMERED CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Mix vinegar, ginger, garam masala, mustard powder, cayenne pepper, cumin, turmeric, coriander, sugar, and cinnamon together until a paste forms. Set aside.
• Process red onions and garlic in a food processor until minced.
• Melt butter in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add onion-garlic mixture and saute until translucent, 5 to 7 minutes, stirring constantly so the garlic doesn't burn. Add chicken and cook, stirring occasionally, for 4 to 5 minutes.
• Add tomatoes, chile peppers, and tomato sauce. Stir in the reserved spice paste and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, adding pepper flakes, salt, and pepper while cooking. Stir in chicken broth as needed if vindaloo gets too dry.
• Let cool a bit before serving.

EXCELLENT CHICKEN VINDALOO

Steps:

• Wash 6 chicken thighs. Remove the skin and excess fat and place the thighs in a large mixing bowl.
• In a large nonstick frying pan put the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, peppercorns, whole cloves, cardamom seeds, and the 2 dried red chilies. Stir-fry the whole spices over medium heat until they have lightly browned.
• Put the toasted spices into a spice grinder. Add the salt, cayenne powder, turmeric and cinnamon. Powder everything together.
• Put the powdered spices in the bowl with the chicken and stir to combine.
• Let the chicken marinate while you cook the onions.
• In the same frying pan put 4 Table. oil and the onions. Stir-fry the onions over medium heat until they are very brown.
• Put the onions into a food processor or blender. Add the 1/2 cup water, vinegar, garlic cloves and ginger. Puree.
• Stir the onion puree into the chicken in the large mixing bowl.
• Next, put 2 Table. oil in the frying pan and the mustard seeds. Heat over high heat until the mustard seeds start popping.
• Add the curry leaves and quickly stir.
• Add the chicken mixture from the mixing bowl (along with all of the puree and spices). Add at least one cup water. Stir.
• Bring the liquid to a boil, reduce heat to medium, and cook the chicken at least 45 minutes, until very tender, adding a little water as needed. You will need to turn the chicken over about every 10 minutes.
• When the chicken is almost done, increase heat to highh and let most of the liquid evaporate until you have a thick sauce. Check for salt.
• Serve with plain boiled rice, a yogurt raita and a side vegetable.
• To make this dish nicer, I usually cool the curry and when it is cool enough to handle, I remove the chicken and discard the bones. Cut the meat into bite-size pieces and return it to the frying pan with the sauce. Reheat.
• Variations: Sometimes you find chicken (or meat) vindaloo with potatoes. If you want to add a potato, reduce the chicken thighs to five and add a (peeled and diced) potato the last 20 minutes of cooking. Many times this curry is served very spicy hot. If you want to have it hotter, increase the cayenne powder to at least 1 teaspoons.