Red Chilli Chicken

Red chilli chicken:




Ingredients
Chicken - 1/2 kg
Masala
1.Red Chilli - 6 to 8.
2.Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 1/2 tbsp.
3.cinnamon - 1 inch stick
4.avinaasi poo/star aniseed - 1
Onion - 1
Green chilli - 2
curry leaves - 1 spring
oil - 3tsp
Lemon - 1/2 rind.
Salt to taste



Pre cooking Preparation

1.Wash and cut the chicken in to bite sized pieces.
2.chop the onion in to fine pieces.
3.Split the green chilli.
4.Grind the ingredients for masala in to a smooth paste.
Method:
Heat oil in a pressure cooker/Pressure pan/ kadaai.
add the green chilli and followed by the onion, saute well. then add the cleaned chicken and stir. Now pour the contents of the masala made prior in to the pressure cooker, add a little salt and saute well till the raw smell goes off and add salt.
now sprinkle a little water such that the chicken is partly immersed.cover it with lid and put in pressure for one whistle and keep in sim for 5 mins.
turn off the stove.
open the pressure cooker put it back on flame and add a spring of curry leaves and lemon juice and stir it occasionally, let the consistency become thick and the masala should coat over the chicken.
with the aroma of red chilli, spice and curry leaves added, it would taste great
best combination for dal rice and rasam.
my mom who is a best critic of my cooking had seriously enjoyed eating it and kept appreciating it. she herself who is an awesome cook, one fine sunday had asked me to tell how this recipe goes.