Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Pepper Chicken varuval

Husband wanted a chicken dish. Tried this recipe with cornish hen. It is a young chicken that weighs around 1 to 1.5 pounds. Aroung 500 to 700 gms. You get it as a whole chicken. You can buy it if you like to eat chicken with bones. You can als try this recipe with full grown chicken. Recipe is below.

Ingredients

cleaned and cut cornish hen - 1/2 a kilo
Chopped Onions - 2
Chopped Tomato -1
Ginger garlic paste - 1 spoon
Turmeric - 3/4 spoon
chilli powder - 1/2 spoon
coriander powder - 1 spoon heaped.
Pepper powder - 1 to 1.5 spoon
Salt - as needed
Oil - 3 full spoons

Method:

1. Oil in heavy bottomed and a wide kadaai.
2. Onions and Ginger garlic paste in.
3. Turmeric powder in.
4. Add the chicken. Keep stirring until the chicken turns white. It take around 5 mins.
5. Chilli powder, coriander powder and pepper powder in. Stir evertyhing.
6. Add the tomatoes. stir everything.
7. Add salt.
8. Close the kadaai with the lid. Water from the steam in the closed kadaai is all the water we give the chicken. Do not add any extra water.
9. Cook until the oil seperates out.
10. Give a final stir.

You pepper chicken varuval is ready to be savored with rice and rasam.