Chicken and Green Bean Coconut Curry

Ingredients

• ½ cup water
• 1 ½ teaspoons cumin seeds
• 27 fresh curry leaves
• 6 chicken breast halves with skin and bones (5 lb total)
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons tamarind (not concentrate) from a pliable block
• + 2 more ingredients
• • 2 tablespoons coriander seeds
  • 6 3-inch-long dried hot Indian red chiles

Break up tamarind, then add to boiling-hot water (1/2 cup) in a heatproof bowl and soak 15 minutes. Mash tamarind with a fork until pulp is dissolved, then pour tamarind mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a small bowl, pressing hard on solids to extract as much liquid as possible. Discard sol...

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