Using black peppers in non vegetarian foods is highly recommended by elders in my town, as they believe that it can cure any food related allergies and a great cold remedy. Won't that be convincing enough to make a curry with black pepper:)
Ingredients:
Chicken - 1 lbplain curd - 4 tbsp
dry ginger powder - 1 tsp
salt - to taste
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
fennel - 1 tsp
cinnamon - 2 inch
bay leaf - 1
Sesame oil - 1/4 cup (must)
Salt - to taste
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Paste 1:
tomato - 3onion - 1
garlic - 1 (full)
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok and fry the chopped onion,peeled garlic till it wilts. Then add the chopped tomato and cook till it gets mushy. Let cool and grind to a fine paste.
To dry roast and grind:
Whole black Pepper - 2 tbspCoriander seeds - 3 tbsp
cumin - 1 tsp
cardamom - 5
cloves - 4
cinnamon - 2 inch
fennel - 1 tsp
black cumin - 1/4 tsp
mace - a thin strip
nutmeg - a tiny scrapping
Method:
Choose red meat with some bones from chicken.Wash and pat dry. Add a tsp of salt, curd, turmeric and let it marinate for an hour or two.
Dry roast the items mentioned (just a minute is enough...don't let any of them char, otherwise the taste will change). First powder them without water.
Heat oil in a wok and put fennel, cinnamon, bay leaf and curry leaves. Then add the marinated chicken pieces without the liquid. Fry till the color changes to white and chicken shrinks a little.
Then add the onion tomato paste, remaining marinated liquid and cook covered with required salt. Check if it is done. Now put the prepared masala powder, dry ginger powder and mix well. Cook covered in medium heat till oil separates.
Garnish with fresh curry leaves.
Serving suggestions:
Serve hot over rice along with a drop of ghee.Also a very good side dish for chapati or rasam rice.
Note:
If tomato is not available, 1 cup of thick plain Indian yogurt can be added instead.Traditionally dry red chillies are not added in this curry. But can be included if we want it more spicy..
6 comments:
The chicken dish looks suoer delicious.
I can smell the aroma of this super irresistible pepper chicken curry, prefect to enjoy with a bowl of hot steaming rice..
That's looks spicy n yum ...
Nice curry for cold weather.
Soooo tempting and delicious..
love this inji mittai, i used to have these a lot when I was a kid, u have a lovely blog, do visit my space too..following u..
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