Sunday, 9 March 2014

Chicken in Garlic and Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

1/2 kg of Chicken (skinned) to be cut into small pieces
and marinated with 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of Garlic paste.
1 cup of Tomato sauce.
Oil for frying
4 whole Red chillies.
1 Medium sized Chopped Onion
1 Pinch of Ajinomoto


Method

Take 1 tbsp of oil in non stick kadai.

Fry the chopped onions and the whole red chillies till pink in colour.

Add the marinated chicken fry it till 5-10 minutes.

Then add thetomato sauce in it and cook it in slow flame covered with Lid.

Adding a pinch of ajino motto and simmer it for sometime.

Garnish it with chopped spring onions, corriander leaves.


It can be had with noodles or rice or with chapathi.

Sunday, 9 March 2014 by dfs · 0

Dhania Chicken

Ingredients



1 Kg Chicken (cut into desired sized pieces)
2 large bundles of fresh dhania leaves (washed and chopped fine)
1 bundle of mint (pudina) leaves (washed and chopped fine)
3-4 large onions (chopped fine)
2-3 ginger-garlic paste
3-4 green chillies chopped fine (or add more if you want spicier)
1/4 kg curd
3-4 sp. dhania powder
1 1/2 sp. jeera powder
1/2 sp red chilli powder
Oil & Salt to taste


Method

Mix half the curd, the red chilli powder, and salt and marinate chicken in it for 15 mins.

Saute the onions in a vessel little oil till transparent. then add the ginger-garlic paste and saute.

Add the green chillies, dhania and jeera powder, mix well.

Drain the chicken pieces and add to the cooking mixture, and fry well on high flame for 5 mins., taking care not to burn.

Add the curd left over from the chicken marinade and the other half too, mix well.

Add the dhania and mint leaves, and mix well.

Bring to a boil once, and then cover with a lid and cook on low flame till chicken pieces are cooked.

Serve hot, and grate a little paneer on top if desired.

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Thursday, 27 February 2014

Spicy Chicken Gravy

Ingredients

Chicken cut into 1" pieces - 2 lbs
Red Chillies 7-8
Onion - 2 medium size
Ginger - 1 1/2" size
Garlic - 1 full big size
Coriander leaf - handful
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Cloves - 7-8
Cinnamon stick - small size one
Somb - 1 tsp
Tomato - 2 small size
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Lemon 1
Chicken Masala - 1 tsp
Salt to taste.


Method
Grind Onion ginger, garlic, chillies, coriander leaf, cloves, cinnamon stick, somb and keep aside.

Grind tomato separately.

In a cooker pour little oil and fry onions till golden brown, then add the grounded masala. Once it is done add tomatoes and stir for 5-6 minutes.

To this mixture add coriander powder, turmeric powder, chicken masala, lemon and salt.

Add chicken pieces and cook for 25 minutes.


Goes well with Rice, Chapati, Naan, or Idiappam.

Thursday, 27 February 2014 by dfs · 0

Fast Chicken in Yoghurt

Ingredients

Chicken - 4 lbs small chicken pieces
Fresh yogurt - 2 cups, whipped
Garlic - 6 cloves, paste
Ginger - 2 inches, paste
Onion - 1 large, half sliced and half paste
Light butter - 4 tsp
Green chilli - sliced according to taste
Salt - as preferred

Spices:

Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
Cumin - 1 tsp
Coriander - 1 tsp


Method

Clean the chicken and boil in a pot adding 2 cups water and 1tsp of salt for 10 min.

Then put 4 tsp butter in a non-stick pan and add boiled chicken pieces (keep water aside) and add turmeric and fry them in low flame.

Next add all half of sliced and paste onion, ginger garlic, whole of yogurt and spices and salt.

Mix all properly, and fry them,then add water that was kept aside. Add salt as preferred. Cover and boil it.

When its done few add the remaining ginger ,onion n garlic paste and green chilli, and boil for 2 min.

Keep gravy as preferred, less tastes better.


Serve with rice or roti. Enjoy.

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Chicken Curry with Mushroom

Ingredients

500 gms of Minced Chicken
200 gms button Mushrooms
5-6 Green Chillies
1/2 Bunch of Corriander leaves
1 tsp of Pepper & salt to taste
2 Tomatoes Finely chopped for Curries.
2 Tbsp of Onion paste and 1 tablespoon of Ginger Garlic Paste.
1 tsp of Garam Masala powder.
200 ml of refined Oil for frying and Cooking.


Method

Grind the minced chicken into paste with chopped corriander leaves and green chillies with 1/2 teaspoon of Salt in it.

Wash the mushrooms well and boil the mushrooms with pinch of salt in it and drain out the water from it.

Make flat round shaped balls of chicken paste dusted with flour ,adding one boiled mushroom in it and it can be make into ball shape.

Make the balls like this and keep it aside.

Heat the oil in the nNon stick pan and fry the ball till golden brown, keep it aside.

Add the Masalas in it and fry it with tomatoes till it leaves the oil.

Add 1 tsp of salt and turmeric powder to it and put 1 glass of hot water in it.

When it starts boiling add the fried balls in it and boil it for 5-6 minutes in slow flame covered with lid.

Add the garam masala powder in it and simmer it for sometime.


It can be served with Roti or Rice.

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Chicken In Gravy



Ingredients

Chicken - 1/2 kg
Onion -1 medium size (finely chopped)
Tomatoes -2 medium size (finely diced)
Yogurt - 2 tbspn
Ginger -Garlic paste (fresh) - 2 tspn
Turmeric powder - 1 tspn
Red Chilli powder - 1 1/2 tspn
Coriander powder - 1 tspn
Garam Masala powder-1 1/2 tspn
Salt-as per taste
Oil- 2-3 tspn
Coriander leaves- 1 tbspn (finely chopped)


Method

Clean, wash the chicken. Take a bowl mix yogurt, 1/2 tspn of turmeric, red chilli, salt, ginger-garlic paste & garam masala powder. Coat the chicken with this marinade.

Let it marinate for 1 hour.

Heat oil in a pressure cooker saute onions to golden brown then add remaining ginger-garlic paste stir for a second then add marinated chicken to it fry for 1 min.

Add all powder masalas to the chicken stir add tomatoes, salt, half glass of water pressure cook it for 1 whistle.


Garnish with the coriander leaves and serve hot.

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Dum Chicken

Ingredients

150 g chicken cut in to pieces
250 g cashewnuts
250 g onions finely chopped
200 g tomatoes finely chopped
150 g poppy seeds
20 g ginger-garlic paste, 20 g red chilly paste
few chopped coriander leaves
100 ml milk
garam masala
150 ml oil
salt to taste


Method

Grind Cashewnuts & poppy seeds to a fine paste with milk.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the onions till golden brown.

Add ginger-garlic paste.

Add tomatoes & red chilly paste & cook.

Add the cashewnuts & poppy seeds paste & cook till the greavy leaves the oil.

Add the salt. Add the chicken to the greavy & cook till done.


Add garam masala & coriander leaves before serving.

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