Recipe: Perfect Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken

Dora Hopkins

Page content

Recipe: Perfect Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken. Chicken sorrel gravy is a special Andhra style recipe. As chicken is the highest protein suppliers This dish can be made with regular sorrel leaves. Here is how you cook that.

This is a traditional chicken recipe from Andhra using sorrel leaves.

It is slightly on the tangy side but the chilies and spices render an unique flavor. చుక్కకూర చికెన్

Method for making the chicken chukka recipe.

You can have Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken

You need 5-6 bunches of Green sorrel leaves.
Prepare 2 tbsp of Ginger garlic paste.
Prepare 1 Kg of Chicken bone-in.
Prepare 2 tbsp of Salt.
It’s 1 tsp of Cumin powder roasted.
You need 1 tsp of Red chilli powder.
Prepare 4-5 of Green chillies finely chopped.
Prepare 1 tsp of Coriander powder roasted.
You need 2 of Onions thinly sliced.
It’s 3 of Tomatoes finely chopped.
You need 1/4 cup of Coriander leaves chopped.
Prepare 4-5 tbsp of Oil.

You will have to first marinate the chicken with ginger garlic paste and other spices.

First, the tempering is done with mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Later more spices are added before adding tomato and chicken.

Add little water and salt too.

Chukka Chicken/Green Sorrel Leaves with Chicken step by step

Wash and clean Chicken thoroughly and add half of Salt and Ginger garlic paste to it. Leave it well covered. Meanwhile heat Oil in a cooking pot. Saute Onions, Green chillies and Ginger garlic paste along with the rest of the spices. Fry all on a low heat until done. Now add the Tomatoes. Cover and Until they are soft. And then finally add the marinated Chicken to it. Saute it on a high heat at first for 2-3 minutes. Then lower the heat and simmer. Keep it covered..
After the Chicken is almost done, add roughly chopped Green Sorrel Leaves to it. It should be added in the end because they get very quickly done. There is no need to add water. Cook on a high heat and the consistency should be thick but not totally dry. Garnish with coriander leaves and adjust Salt before taking it off the heat..
This particular one is my innovative take on the popular Chukka Gosht from Hyderabad. I have used Chicken in this particular one. The end result was awesome. As it is, Children love Chicken and this was gladly welcomed by them. The Greens were also gone unnoticed and i didnt have much problem feeding them. In this way the experiment proved quite successful for me. I hope your families will also enjoy this variation wholeheartedly. Happy Cooking Everyone!.

Pressure cook until the Mutton gets done.

After the pressure settles down on it's own, open the lid and add the chopped Green Sorrel leaves and soaked Bengal Gram.

Here is how you cook that.

Sorrel will want to put up flower stalks and the seeds will create new green leaves soon after they fall.

Many French cooking recipes call for sorrel as both the main ingredient and as flavoring for soups, salads and sauces.