Northeast Indian

Assamese Chicken Curry

Name: Assamese Chicken Curry
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 2 lb chicken, bone-in pieces; 2 tbsp mustard oil; 1 onion; 1 tbsp ginger paste; 1 tbsp garlic paste; 1/2 tsp turmeric; 2 green chili; 2 cups water; 1 tsp salt

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Assamese Chicken Curry is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

45 min Medium Heart healthy Low carb Gluten free Dairy free Halal

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb chicken, bone-in pieces
2 tbsp mustard oil
1 onion
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
1/2 tsp turmeric
2 green chili
2 cups water
1 tsp salt

How to cook it

Heat the mustard oil in a pot and fry the sliced onion until soft and lightly golden, about 6 minutes.
Stir in the ginger and garlic paste and cook for a minute until the raw smell fades.
Add the chicken pieces and turmeric and cook, turning often, until the chicken is lightly browned all over.
Pour in the water, add the slit green chilies and salt, and bring to a simmer.
Cover and cook over medium-low heat until the chicken is fully tender, about 25 minutes, keeping the gravy thin.
Serve hot with rice; this stays ginger-forward and light rather than heavy with masala.

Watch how to cook Assamese Chicken Curry

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Northeast Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Assamese Chicken Curry, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
  
  25 min
The protein alongside
- Lauki Chana Dal (Bottle Gourd and Lentils)
  
  45 min
What it is eaten with
- Galho (One Pot Rice, Greens and Chicken Porridge)
  
  40 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Assamese Chicken Curry carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.

Every tracked allergen in Assamese Chicken Curry
Allergen	In this dish
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 250 kcal
Protein: 26 g
Carbs: 6 g
Fat: 14 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 440 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Assamese Chicken Curry takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.