Pepper Chicken

Ingredients for Pepper Chicken:

1.  Chicken with bone – 600 gm
2. Oil – 3 big spoons
3. Red chillies – 1
4. Ginger chopped – 1 big spoon
   Garlic chopped – 1 big spoon
5. Cinnamon – 1-inch piece
   Cloves – 3 or 4
6. Pepper – 1 or 2 small spoons (as per preferences)
7. Cumin – ½ small spoon
8. Shallots – 300 gm, chopped
9. Oil – 1 big spoon
10. Fennel seeds – ¼ small spoon
11. Curry leaves – 10-15
12. Tomato – 17 gm, chopped into big pieces
    Salt – For taste
    Turmeric powder – ¼ small spoon
13. Coriander leaves chopped – To garnish

How to prepare Pepper Chicken?

1. Cut chicken into medium pieces.
2. Heat the oil and sauté the chilli.
3. Add ginger and garlic, and sauté till they turn golden brown.
4. Add cinnamon and cloves and fry for a few seconds.
5. Add pepper and cumin and sauté again. Keep the flame low so that ingredients won’t burn.
6. Add shallots and sauté till they turn light golden brown.
7. Turn off the flame, and when it cools, make a fine paste by adding sufficient water. This is the masala.
8. To prepare chicken, first heat the oil and sauté the fennel seeds.
9. Add curry leaves and ground masala and sauté for 3 minutes.
10.  Add ingredients no: 12 and sauté for 3 more minutes.
11.  Add chicken, mix with masala, and when it boils, reduce the flame.
12.  Close the lid, and cook the chicken on a medium flame. Don’t fully close the lid.
13. Water will come out of the chicken and appear as a thin layer. Occasionally stir the contents to avoid sticking to the bottom.
14. When tomatoes are fully smashed, chicken is fully cooked, and oil forms a thin layer, turn off the flame.
15. Decorate your pepper chicken with coriander leaves.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine, April 1-14, 2023

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