Chicken with Vindaloo Spices

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Servings:
4

Treat your family to some classic Indian cuisine with this spicy curry recipe from "At Home with Madhur Jaffrey." Pair with Tomato Pullao to complete the dinner.

Ingredients

  • ¼ cup olive or canola oil

  • ½ teaspoon brown mustard seeds

  • ¼ teaspoon fenugreek seeds

  • 1 teaspoon whole black peppercorns

  • 15 to 20 fresh curry leaves or 10 fresh basil leaves, torn

  • 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs

  • 6 cloves garlic, chopped

  • 1 cup apple cider or white-wine vinegar

  • 1 ¼ teaspoons coarse salt

  • 1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin

  • 1 tablespoon ground coriander

  • 1/2 to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper

  • 1 tablespoon bright red paprika

Directions

  1. Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large Dutch oven or high-sided skillet. Add mustard seeds. When mustard seeds begin to pop, add fenugreek and peppercorns; cook, stirring, about 30 seconds.

  2. Add curry leaves, chicken, garlic, vinegar, salt, cumin, coriander, cayenne pepper, and paprika; stir to combine and bring to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low, simmer for 20 minutes.

  3. Uncover and increase heat to high; cook, stirring and turning, until liquid evaporates and chicken browns on all sides.

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