Chicken 65

Spice Up your Friday .............

If you are the person who likes spicy food, I am sure you will relish this dish. I had this impression that people from the South of India are masters in Dosa and Idli until I tasted this chicken recipe. I have to say that this deep fried chicken recipe will change the entire idea about recipes from the south.
I hope you will prepare this dish and spice up your Friday Eve !!
Preparation Time - 40 minutes
Serves - 4
Ingredients
Chicken - 1 pound
Egg - 1
Green Chilli - 2
Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder - 1tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp
Garlic Chopped - 1 tbsp
Ginger Chopped - 2 tsp
Chilli Garlic Sauce - 2 tsp
Crushed Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves - few
Lemon - 1 tsp
Corn Flour - tsp
Ajinomoto - Optional
Red Color - Optional
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking
Method of Preparation
1. Cut chicken into small bite size pieces. Clean and place on a paper towel to remove moisture from it. Finely chop ginger and garlic.
2 Marinate chicken with salt, a pinch of ajinomoto, 1 tsp pepper powder and corn flour.Combine all these ingredients real well. Then add the egg to it such that the egg forms a nice coating on this chicken.
3 Heat oil in a deep pan and fry these chicken pieces well.Make sure you fry the chicken in batches. Remove and keep aside.
4 In a wide mouthed pan, pour some oil. When the oil is warm add chopped ginger and garlic and fry. Make sure you reduce the heat else you may end up burning the garlic. Add the curry leaves. Now add Cumin Powder, Red Chilli Powder and to it. Pour 2 tsp of chilli garlic sauce to it. Add few drops of water before you toss the chicken into it. (If you wish add the food color to this water)
5 Mix well with all the spices.
6 Sprinkle few drops of lemon before serving.
Serving Tips
You can enjoy this dish as an entree/starter or even as a main coarse.
Notes
Make sure you cook the spices on medium heat. Also this is a dry chicken recipe, so do not add more water.
If you like it a little less spicy, you can reduce the amount of green chillis or red chilli powder.
Variation
I prefer making this item with Chicken Breasts but you may use chicken thighs as well. Use chicken with or without bones.
Ajinomoto and Red Color are optional. Incase you do not want it, you may avoid adding the same.