DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Kerala Chicken Stew
Suguna Vinodh’s selected Kerala chicken ishtu pressure-cooks bone-in chicken, potato and peas with ginger and mild whole spices, then adds canned coconut milk.
About Kerala Chicken Stew
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Suguna Vinodh calls this Kerala chicken stew chicken ishtu. She describes a mild gravy flavored with ginger and coconut milk and pairs it with appam or idiyappam; this selection uses appam.
Coconut oil carries small amounts of cinnamon, clove, cardamom and fennel until aromatic. Onion, ginger, curry leaves, potato and fresh peas are then added.
Bone-in chicken, slit green chilies, salt and cooking water join the vegetables. The pressure-cooker stage cooks the same mixture before the pressure is allowed to release.
This selection follows the author’s canned coconut-milk option. It is added to the cooked chicken mixture and simmered, rather than following the separate thin-then-thick fresh-milk sequence.
The ginger is deliberately prominent. The author offers removing its pieces after they have flavored the gravy, and serves the finished stew with the selected appam.
Ingredients in Kerala Chicken Stew
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- Chickenprotein
- Coconut milksauce
- Potatobase
- Carrotbase
- Onionbase
- Gingerseasoning
- Vegetable Oilcooking medium
- Black Pepperseasoning
- Cinnamonseasoning
- Cardamomseasoning
- Cloveseasoning
- Saltseasoning
- Garlicseasoning
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Cooking traditions
- Kerala
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