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Varieties of Chicken Curry Recipes
It is easy to make a simple chicken curry; you just fry some onion, garlic and ginger, then add some curry powder (which is widely available in ethnic food stores), tomatoes and stock, followed by the chicken. Simply simmer the mixture until the chicken is cooked. A very easy way to make a delicious meal. However, there is far more to curry cookery than just throwing these ingredients together. To make really authentic Indian cuisine, it is best to make curry powder yourself from a mixture of individual spices such as cumin seeds, coriander seeds, cloves, cardamom and a whole host of others.
Then you can start thinking about the wide selection of different curry varieties. Some are extremely hot and spicy whereas others are tame by comparison. Here are some of the more common flavors of curries found in restaurants, and which can easily be made at home.
Vindaloo - chicken vindaloo is one of the really firey curries, an Indian curry with its roots back in Portugal. Some people mistakenly think a vindaloo has to have potato in it - since the Indian word "aloo" means potato. Actually the Portuguese introduced some of the flavors to this curry, the "vin" being vinegar, and "aloo" deriving from the Portuguese for garlic "alho". And of course, this recipe is crammed full of hot chilies!
Jalfrezi - this curry is another hot one, made from meat marinated in curry spices and cooked in a thick sauce. Very often a chicken jalfrezi recipe will have lots of fresh green chilies.
Madras - originating in Madras - now called Chennai - this is another fairly spicy recipe, usually made with coconut and tomatoes, and a mixture of curry spices, including a substantial amount of dried chili powder and turmeric, which gives it a deep red or orange color. Madras curry powder is available commercially all over the world now, and so this is a good curry to try and cook at home.
Other commonly served curry varieties in Indian restaurants are chicken
roghan josh (medium heat, cooked with tomatoes and paprika); chicken
dopiaza (another medium hot curry, with lots of onions); and chicken
korma (a very mild curry in a creamy sauce, cooked with almond and coconut).
There are lots of others to try out too, and of course, if you are cooking at home, there's nothing to stop you experimenting and making up your own variations!