Friday, February 19, 2010

Chettinad Chicken

Ingredients:
1.Chicken - 500 gms
2.small onion - 10
3.Tomato - 1
4.Curry leaves
5.Coriander leaves
6.Oil - 1tbsp
7.Salt to taste.
8.Green Chilli - 2
9.Lemon extract- fewdrops

To Grind:
1.Red Chilli - 5nos                              
2.Pepper- 1 tsp
3.Dry coriander seeds- 1 tbsp
4.Cinnamon- 1/2 inch stick
5.cloves - 1
6.elachi- 1
7.Jeera - 1/2 tsp
8.saunf - 1/2 tsp
9.Khus Khus - 1/2tsp
10.onion - 5snos
11.Garlic - 8 pods
12.Ginger -1inch

Method:
Wash and clean the chicken with turmeric powder and water.(Chicken is Preferred with bone and skin,cut in to medium sized pieces),
Fry all the ingredients (1 to 9)mentioned under to Grind in a tsp of oil and make a fine powder.
Then on the same kadaai,fry the onion garlic and ginger with 2 drops of oil and add it to the mixer which contains the fine powder. run it until you obtain a smooth paste.
Now on a pressure pan, heat oil add curry leaves and green chilli and then the onion and tomato and saute well until it becomes soft and juicy. now add the washed and cleaned chicken and add salt and stir once.
Then add the masala paste made in to the cooking chicken.
stir fry for a while.
Now put in pressure for about 10 mins, this is to extract the fat out of the chicken, which enhances the taste.
once the steam is gone out, add coriander leaves and few drops of lemon and serve hot with rice or parottas or dosai or chapathi..
trust me, who ever had this have commented it to be so yummy....

3 comments:

Big Boi said...

Great blog Sathya!!

Sathya Kamal said...

Thank you Raj.. wow thats accelerates my energy level.

Unknown said...

Sathu it worked :) My hubby liked it :)