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Showing posts with label Chicken. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2013

Chicken Cutlet


What you need:

Chicken1 lb
Potato (big)3
Onion (medium)2
Ginger1 piece (big enough)
Green Chilies5-6
Garlic4 pods
Coriander Leavesa handful
Bread crumbs or Rusk crumbs1 cup
Egg whitefrom 2 eggs
Pepper powder1 ½ tablespoon
Garam masala powder1 tablespoon
Saltas required
Oil1 cup

How to prepare:


Stage 1

Cook chicken and potato separately. Next, pour 4 tablespoon of oil in a frying pan and saute the cut onions until it turns light brown in color. Add chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies and cook for 1 minute. Add crushed potato and minced chicken and stir this with salt, turmeric and garam masala for 3-4 minutes. At the final stage add chopped coriander leaves and pepper powder. Chicken mix is ready.

Stage 2

When the chicken mixture get cool, make small balls from this and press it lightly to make oval shape - be sure, no cracks are formed. Dip them in egg whites and roll with bread crumbs. When you have 5-6 (or maximum that your pan can hold at a time) such cutlets, keep them in oil and deep fry.
You may serve the cutlets with a mix of cut onion, vinegar, green chilli and salt.

Chicken Thoran



Ingredients
Chicken2lb
Big red onion or shallots
Cut into thin slices
2
Ginger (chopped)3 tablespoon
Garlic (chopped)2 tablespoon
Green Chilies
Cut along the length
2
Chili powder2 tablespoon
Turmeric powder½ tablespoon
Saltas required
Garam masala1 ½ tablespoon
Oil5-6 tablespoon
Curry leaf
Grated cocunut (crushed)½ cup

Preparation of Chicken Thoran

Clean and cut chicken into small pieces. Marinate the chicken with salt, turmeric powder and red chilly powder. Keep marinated chicken inside the refrigerator at least for half an hour.

Heat a pan and pour sufficient oil and saute onion till it gets the golden color. Add chopped ginger, garlic and green chili and saute it for some time. Put marinated chicken into the fried onion and stir it well. Close the pan with a tight lid and cook for 15 minutes in a medium flame.

Now stir chicken and add salt & garam masala. While continuing stirring, add crushed coconut. Check the salt and level of spiciness. Add more salt or chilies as required. Close the lid and cook for 10 more minutes. At the final stage (all water disappears at this stage), check if chicken got cooked well and add fresh curry leaves into this.

Chicken thoran makes a good combination with puttu, dosa, rice or chapathi.