Chicken Chinthamani

Chicken
Non-Veg
Non-veg curry
Non-veg Thali
Side dish for Roti
Side dish for Idli, Dosa
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Today’s dish is extremely spicy & extremely addictive Chicken Chinthamani. It is one of the very hot chicken dish. Its so easy to prepare at home with existing ingredients. In this spicy dish, the marinated chicken is cooked with red chillies. You can alter the amount of red chilly as it suits your taste buds. Check out this must try..starter recipe and relish the traditional taste.

Ingredients

Chicken boneless - ½ kg

Lemon juice - ½ tsp

Turmeric pwd - ¼ tsp

Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp

Oil - 2 tbsp

Dry red chilly - 15 to 20

Saunf - ½ tsp

Cumin - ½ tsp

Curry leaves -1 twig

Salt to taste

Fresh coriander leaves

Instructions

1.

Wash and chop the chicken to bite sized pieces

2.

Prepare a marinade with lemon juice, salt, turmeric pwd and ginger garlic paste

3.

Mix well and add chicken pieces

4.

Coat the chicken pieces with masala and let it rest for 30 mins

5.

Now cut the dry red chillies to small bits

6.

Heat oil in a frypan

7.

Add saunf / fennel, cumin and wait to splutter

8.

Add finely sliced onions and fry till it turns golden brown

9.

Add chopped dry red chillies, curry leaves and saute for a minute

10.

Drop the marinated chicken pieces and stir well in high flame

11.

Now turn the heat to low flame and cook the chicken covered for 30 mins

12.

No need to add water for this recipe

13.

Cook until the chicken is cooked and gets a appetizing red colour

14.

Turn off flame

15.

Squeeze few drops of lemon juice

16.

Spicy hot Chicken Chinthamani is ready!

17.

Garnish with fresh coriander leaves, grated coconut and bell pepper slices

18.

We enjoyed hot with biryani & cucumber raita

19.

Also it pairs up best with parotta, chapatti, paratha, roti, etc

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