Chicken Stew

Ingredients:

• Chicken : 1 kg
• Potato : 1 big
• Carrot : 1 big
• Onion : 3 big
• Ginger 1.5  Tbsp
• Green chilly : 5 to 10
• Crushed pepper : 2 Tsp
• Cardamom : 3
• Cloves : 4
• Cinnamon : 5 small pieces
• Semi thick coconut milk : 2 cup
• Thick coconut milk : 1 cup
• All purpose flour : 2 Tsp
• Curry leaves : few
• Salt : as rqd
• Coconut oil : as rqd

Clean and cut the chicken into medium size pieces. Heat oil in a kadai and add crushed whole spices. Fry it for a couple of minutes and add cubed onion, sliced green chilly, ginger and curry leaves. Saute till the onion becomes translucent. Then, add the chicken pieces along with the cubed vegetables and salt. Saute the chicken in high flame for a few minutes and pour the semi thick coconut milk into this. Cover and cook well. On another pan, heat little oil and add all purpose flour and stir well. Then, add little water into it and mix quickly to form a thick paste. Keep it aside. When the chicken  is fully done, pour the thick coconut milk and combine. Check the salt at this moment. Reduce the flame and add the above prepared flour paste into the cooked chicken and mix. When the stew starts to thicken, switch off and remove it from fire. Serve it hot with palappam, bread or idiyappam.