Chicken ashgourd curry/Kozhi kumbalanga curry is a specialty of Thrissur, Kerala. Chicken and ashgourd are cooked in coconut milk along with spices. This curry is mildly spicy and can be enjoyed with appam, idiyappam, rice, rotis, etc.
Ingredients
Chicken cut into pieces – 1 kg
Ashgourd/Kumbalanga – 1 kg
Onion – 1 no
Green chillies – 8 nos
Ginger chopped – 2 tbsp
Coriander powder – 2 tbsp
Chilli powder – 2 tsp
Pepper powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Semi thick Coconut milk -2 – 3 cups
Thick coconut milk -1 cup
For tempering
Coconut oil- 3 tbsp
Shallots/ Kunjulli, chopped – 1o nos
Garlic chopped – 6 nos
Dry red chilli, broken – 2 nos
Garam masala powder – 1 tbsp
Curry leaves
Method
Peel and cut ashgourd into medium pieces.
Clean and cut chicken into pieces. Marinate the chicken with salt, chilli powder and turmeric powder. Keep this aside. Now add sliced onion, green chillies, and ginger. Now add 2 cups of 2nd extract coconut milk ( semi thick) and cook. When the chicken pieces are half cooked, add ashgourd pieces. Cook it for few minutes, When the ash gourd pieces and chicken pieces are cooked well, add thick coconut milk.
Heat oil in a kadai. Add shallots, garlic, dry red chillies and curry leaves. Lower the flame, add garam masala powder. Pour this over curry.
So delicious. Will surely try this. Bookmarked. Love the combination. Tasty tasty.
Thanks dear Piyali. Glad u liked it.
Looks fab…i havr never seen Chicken recipe with Ashgourd before. New recipe for me.
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I love curries and appam. Looks so delicious.
wow….yummy curry…..not tried ash gourd with chicken….looks superb
I love this combination. With duck too. The only difference is that we make it without coconut milk. But this version sounds/looks so delicious!!
I can eat curry any time! This is really appetizing.
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Amazing – never tried gourd with chicken, this one is bookmarked.
With the appam, that sounds delicious! I love how Thrissur has vege and non-veg mixed curries… yet to try them though…
never tried chicken with ashgourd… simple
wow ..grt combo..never heard of this..anyway curry looks truly tempting
super
This look awesome Beena 🙂
This look awesome Beena 🙂
I tried this recipe. Kozhi Kumbalanga Curry is super yummy. Thank you for the recipe.