Chicken Daube - Chicken stew Mauritian style Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 kg Chicken cut into pieces
• 2 Tbs vegetable oil
• 2 garlic cloves – crushed
• 3 medium size potatoes - cut in cubes
• 2 carrots – cut in fairly big cube size
• Handful of frozen peas
• 2 medium sized onions – sliced
• 2 tsb ginger – grated
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 whole cardamoms
• 3 cloves
• 1 tsp of cumin powder
• chopped coriander leaves and the stalks
• 1 sprig of thyme
• Few curry leaves
• 1 Tbs of tomato puree
• 2 large tomatoes - chopped
• Salt
• pepper
• 1-2 cups of water or (chicken stock by mixing a cube stock in hot water)
• 3-4 tbs oil
• 2 green chillies (optional)