Chicken Pakora

Pakoras are delicious snacks , often served as appetizer.Bone chicken pieces can be used to prepare delicious Chicken Pakoras.

INGREDIENTS:

• Boneless Chicken Pieces - 250 gm or  ½ lb
• Besan Flour - 3 tbsp
• Corn Flour - 2 tbsp
• Ginger & Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
• Corriander powder -  ½  tsp
• Red chilly powder -  ½  tsp
• Garam Masala Powder -  ¼   tsp
• Egg - 1 nos
• Turmeric powder - ¼ tsp
• Pepper Powder - ¼ tsp
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Mix all the ingredients together .
• Marinate the chicken and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
• Heat Oil in a Pan
• When the oil is hot put each pieces slowly and deep fry both sides to a golden brown colour.

Recommended Combination: Serve with sauce.

Chicken Varattiyathu / Chicken Roast

We have prepared this dish using crushed spices instead of powdered ones.It is a dry dish and is normally cooked in medium heat.This goes well with rice, chappthi or Appam

INGREDIENTS:

• Chicken pieces -500 gm or 1 lb
• Sliced onion - 1 nos
• Pearl onion  / shallot(sliced) - 10 nos
• Green chilly(slit)- 3 nos
• Crushed ginger - 2 tsp
• Crushed garlic - 2 tsp
• Corriander seeds - 1 tbsp
• Red chilly  - 5 nos
• Garam masala powder - ½ tsp
• Turmeric powder - ½ tsp
• Pepper corn - 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Coconut oil - 1 tbsp
• Curry leaves - few

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add crushed ginger and garlic and saute.
• Add sliced onion, pearl onion, curry leaves, green chilly and saute until translucent.
• Crush red chilly, corriander and pepper corn.
• Add this to the pan along with chicken pieces.
• Add turmeric powder, garam masala, salt and mix well.
• Cover the pan with a lid and cook the chicken in medium fire. 
• Remove the dish from fire when the chicken is fully cooked and the gravy becomes dry.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Rice / Flat bread / Pancake / Fried rice / Chappathi / Appam (which are traditional Indian food)

Baked Chicken in Gravy

For preparing Baked Chicken the Tomato - Onion gravy is used to marrinate the chicken. The gravy will avoid the dryness of baked chicken. With the chicken absorbing the spicy flavour to get a fresh and juicy taste.

INGREDIENTS:

• Chicken Pieces - 1 lb or 500 g
• Chopped Onion - ½ Onion
• Chopped Tomato - 1 nos
• Garlic(chopped) -1 tbsp
• Ginger(chopped) -1 tbsp
• Chily powder-1 tbsp
• Corriander Powder-1 tbsp
• Turmeric powder- 1 tsp
• Garam Masala- ½ tsp
• Fennelseed powder -½ tsp
• Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
• Coconut Oil - 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves - a few

PREPARATION METHOD:

• Heat oil in the pan.
• Add onions, ginger and garlic.
• Saute onions till it turns transparent. 
• Add tomatoes and sauté well.
• Add red chilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and saute till the raw smell goes.
• Add garam masala, Fennelseed powder, pepper powder,curry leaves and salt into it.
• Cover the pan and let it cook in a medium fire.
• Once the Gravy is cold, grind it into a fine paste.
• Marinate the Chicken pieces with this paste and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Preheat the oven to 350F.
• Place the chicken to a baking tray and bake it for 30 minutes.
• Turn the chicken and again bake it for 20 mins.

Recommended Combination: Serve hot with Rice / Chappathi / Appam /  fried rice