Monday, June 17, 2013

Chicken sukka with coconut


Ingredients:
1/2 kg chicken
1/2 coconut scraped
2  medium sized onion
4-5 pepper corns
2 pieces dalchini
2 tblsp coriander seeds
5-6 kashmiri red chillies
8 garlic
2 inch ginger
2 bay leaves
1/4 tblsp turmeric
1/4 tblsp mustard seeds
10-12 curry leaves
1 tblsp jeera
1 small ball of tamarind
5 cloves
salt to taste

Direction:

Masala:

1) Fry coriander seeds,  jeera, red chillies, mustard seeds in 1 tblsp oil. Fry till you get the aroma of coriander seeds
2) Fry 3 garlic cloves, 1 sliced onion, 10 curry leaves in 1 tblsp oil for 3-4 mins.
3) Fry dalchini, pepper corns, bayleaves(tej patta), cloves in 1 tblsp oil for a minute.
4) Fry coconut with little bit of turmeric powder.
5) Mix all the ingredients except coconut mixture in the mixer and make paste with 3 tblsp water and tamarind. After that add the coconut in the mixer and make the paste. Just coarsely grind the coconut.
Masala is ready.

6)Heat 3 tblsp oil in a vessels. Add musatrd seeds, 5 curry leaves, 1 sliced onions. Fry for 3-4 mins. Crush the ginger and garlic and add to the oil( ginger garlic added in good quantity gives a nice flavor in the curry). Fry for 3-4 mins and add the cleaned chicken.
7) Cook the chicken in slow flame.
8) After the chicken is cooked, mix in the coconut masala. Add salt.

Serve it with neer dosa.

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