Clean and cut chicken pieces to required size. Mix chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, salt, coconut paste and turmeric powder to the chicken pieces and marinate for 10 mins.
Dry roast the items for dry masala and grind to fine powder once its cool.
Chop onions. Heat cooking oil in a kadai. Fry onions till golden brown in colour. Add green chillies and fry for a while.
Then, add marinated chicken and cook on high flame for 5 mins. Once the water comes out of chicken, simmer it for 20 mins under cover. Check in between to ensure its not burnt.
Chicken gets cooked by 20 mins, then removed the cover and add the dry masala powder and again cook for 10 mins.
In the end, garnish with chopped Coriander leaves.