Pallipalayam Chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken (preferably Boneless) - 500 gm
- Onions(small) - 25 nos/ 1 big onion
- Garlic (small) - 20 nos/ 5 big
- Red Chilly - 25-30 ( depending on the spice levels of chilly)
- Curry leaves - 4 bunches
- Coriander powder - 1 tb spoon
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tb spoon
- Chilly powder - 1/2 tb spoon
- Ginger garlic paste - 1tb spoon
- Coconut - 15 small pieces / 3 tb spoons scrapped
- Mustard seeds - 1 t.spoon
- Oil (preferably coconut oil) -7 teaspoons
- Salt - to taste
- Marinate chicken with 1/2 tb spoon Coriander powder, 1tb spoon ginger garlic past and 1/2 tb spoon chilly powder for 20 minutes
- Coarsely grind onions and garlic
- Heat oil in a Kadai, add mustard seeds and let it splutter
- Add the red chilies, garlic and saute for 2-3 minutes.
- Add the marinated chicken and saute until water separates.
- Add Turmeric powder, Coriander powder and Salt. Cook until the chicken is soft. Cook using the juice in chicken. Avoid using extra water
- Once the chicken is cooked, keep it open and saute until it becomes dry
- In another kadai, heat 2 t spoons of coconut oil, add the remaining 2 bunches of curry leaves and coconut. Saute for 3-4 minutes and add to the chicken
- Saute the chicken until it becomes dry and remove from the flame
- Serve hot with Rice/Roti/Pulav/ Briyani
In case you want to make it a little gravy, you can remove it from the flame once the chicken is cooked. But the traditional recipe is supposed to be dry.
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