Festive Chicken

Ingredients for Festive Chicken:

1. Chicken -1 kg
2. Garlic – 15 cloves
   Ginger – 1-inch piece
   Green chillies – 4
3. Chilli powder – 3 small spoons
   Coriander powder – 3 small spoons
   Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
   Pepper powder – ½ small spoon
4. Fennel seeds – 1 small spoon
   Cloves – 4
   Cardamom – 4
   Cinnamon – 2-inch piece
5. Oil – As required
6. Onions – 4, chopped
7. Mustard – 1 small spoon, ground
8. Tomatoes – 3, finely chopped
   Curry leaves – 2 stalks
   Salt – As required
9. Coriander leaves chopped – To decorate

How to prepare Festive Chicken?

1. Cut chicken into desired pieces.
2. Crush ingredients no: 2.
3. Add a little water to ingredients no: 3 to make a fine paste.
4. Grind together ingredients no: 4 and keep aside.
5. Heat the oil and sauté onions. Then add crushed ingredients no: 2 and sauté for a while.
6. Add mustard paste to it and sauté for a few moments.
7. Add the paste of ingredients no: 3 (powders) to it and sauté again.
8. When you get a pleasant aroma, add the fine paste of ingredients no: 4 to it.
9. Sauté the ingredients well and add ingredients no: 8 along with the chicken pieces.
10. Sauté for a while and then cook the chicken on a low flame. There is no need to add excess water.
11. When the chicken is well-cooked, take it off the flame and decorate with coriander leaves.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine December 15-31, 2016

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