Friday, November 21, 2008

Naadan chicken curry

Chicken-2 pounds
Onions - 4medium sized
Tomato-3
Chilli-4medium
Chicken masala-3 tablespoon
(in case of absence of chicken masala-chilli powder-2tspn,coriander powder-1 tspn)
Turmeric powder-half tspn
Ginger garlic -2 tspn
Salt to taste.
Oil
Mustard
Coriander and mint leaves-1 tspn each


Method
 
  • Take a frying pan and pour oil in it and allow mustard to splutter
  • Mix all the ingredients including chicken to  boil till fully cooked.
  • Then put the leaves on it to garnish
Tip- can add pepper to add taste..

Palak chicken(spinach)

Chicken

1/2 kg

Spinach (Palak)

1 bunch

Onions (medium size)

3

Garlic

12 pods

Green Chillies

6-8

Coriander Leaves (finely chopped)

Handful

Cloves

4

Cinnamon

1 stick

Bay Leaf

1

Curd / Plain Yogurt

1/2 cup

Oil for frying

 

Salt to taste


Method:

1.

Finely chop the onions, garlic and green chillies.

2.

Boil the spinach on low heat in a vessel till it is soft. Switch off and set aside

3.

Heat oil in a wok/pan.

4.

Add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf. Fry for a minute.

5.

Add onions till they turn pink.

6.

Add finely chopped garlic, green chillies and coriander.

7.

Add spinach to this mixture.

8.

Fry this mixture for a couple of minutes

9.

Take the mixture off the heat.

10.

Use the blender to grind the spinach mixture to paste.

11.

Heat some more oil in pan. Add the paste from blender.

12.

Add curd / plain yogurt.

13.

Once the oil starts leaving the sides of the pan, add chicken and salt.

14.

Cook on low heat till the chicken is done.

 

 

 

Serve with hot rotis or rice.