Black Pepper Chicken Curry - Hungry Lankan

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• 5 cardamom pods
• 5 cloves
• 3 pieces of cinnamon roughly 2 inch long
• 1 tbsp finely chopped ginger
• 1 1/2 tbsp finely chopped garlic
• 1 sprig of curry leaves
• 1 small pandan leaf, broken into pieces
• 1 piece garcinia cambogia/goraka piece
• 2 sliced green chilies
• 1/3 cup chopped shallots/onions
• 1 1/2 tbsp meat curry powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper, devided
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tomato, diced
• 600 g skinless chicken cut into 2 inch pieces
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 green chilies slitted in the middle lengthwise
• 1 tsp coarse ground black pepper