Chicken Xacuti is a delicious Goan chicken curry made with perfectly roasted spices, freshly grated coconut along with Onion, Ginger & Garlic. Xacuti is actually pronounced as ‘"Shakuti" derived from the Portuguese word "Chacuti". this is a Perfect chicken curry for weekends which is packed with flavours.
Recipe link: • Perfect Chicken Xacuti...
✓Ingredients & Quantity
Chicken Pieces - 500 Gms
Salt - 1 tsp
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Ginger - Garlic Paste - 2 tsp
✓For Masala
Cloves - 10 nos
Cinnamon - 2-inch stick
Mace - 1/2 inch piece
Green Cardamon - 3 nos
Star anise - 2 petals
Black peppercorns - 20 nos
Nutmeg - 1 cm piece
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Poppy seeds - 2 tbsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
Ginger - 1-inch piece
Garlic - 6 cloves
Onions - 1 onion
Dried Kashmiri Chillies - 6 nos
Coconut (Grated) - 1 1/2 cup
Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Water - 1 1/2 cups or as needed.
✓For Gravy
Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp
Onions - 3 nos
Curry Leaves - 15 nos
Tomatoes - 2 nos
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves (Chopped) - Handful
✓Method
1) Wash the chicken pieces thoroughly and drain the water.
2) Apply Salt, Lemon juice and Ginger - Garlic Paste, mix well & marinate for 6 hours or overnight.
3) Heat a pan without oil, add all the spices excluding poppy seeds, and dry roast these spices till you get a nice aroma out of it. (3 mins on medium heat) Make sure you don't burn it because it will have the final impact on the taste and flavour of the curry. now add the poppy seeds and roast for more than 2 mins and they remove it in a plate and cool it.
4) Heat coconut oil in the same pan, add Dried Kashmiri chillies and fry till it gets dark on the surface the oil turns a bit red and you can smell the smoky chilli aroma. remove and cool it.
5) In the same pan add ginger, garlic and onions and saute till light brown in colour, Remove and cool it.
6) Finally add grated coconut and fry till it turns light brown in colour, now add turmeric powder and mix well, remove and cool it.
7) once all the ingredients are cooled, grind the spices in a mixer using 1/2 cup water till you get a smooth paste.
8) similarly grind the coconut with water till you get thick coarse paste.
9) For Making Gravy heat coconut oil in a vessel, add chopped onions and give a quick stir, add curry leaves and saute onion till light brown in colour. then add the tomatoes and fry till mashy
10) Now add the marinated chicken pieces and mix well, add 1/2 cup and cover the lid, cook the chicken for 10 mins.
11) Once the chicken is almost cooked add the ground spice paste and coconut paste and mix well. add the residual water depending on the consistency.
12) cook for more 10 mins, check for taste add more salt as needed, some sugar and finish it off with some chopped coriander leaves.
13) serve with rice or roti, enjoy.
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