Chicken Xacuti | Community Recipes | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 1 kilogram chicken (cut into pieces for curry)
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 5 centimetres piece of fresh ginger
• 10 cloves garlic
• ½ bunch fresh coriander
• 5 green chillies
• 1 teaspoon peanut oil
• 2 onions (sliced)
• 2 green chillies (chopped)
• 2½ centimetres piece of fresh ginger
• 5 cloves garlic
• 1 large coconut
• 5⅛ centimetres cinnamon
• 3 cardamom (peeled)
• 1 teaspoon aniseed
• 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
• 1 tablespoon poppy seeds
• 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
• 10 red chillies
• 1 star anise
• 1 mace flower
• ⅗ centimetre nutmeg
• 1⅓ centimetres turmeric
• 2 teaspoons peanut oil
• 2 green chillies
• 63 millilitres water