Oriental Chicken

Oriental Chicken

Recipe Type: Indian
Serves: 4

Ingredients 

1. Chicken 1 kilo
2. Onions 3 Thinly sliced
3. Green Chillies slit 5
4. Ginger juliennes 11/2 tbsp
5. Chilli Powder 11/2 tsp
6. Turmeric Powder 3/4 tsp
7. Soya Sauce 23/4 tsp
8. Curry leaves 2 sprigs
9. Coconut oil 3 tbsp
10. Salt

Method Of Preparation 

1. Wash the chicken well & cut it into pieces & put it in a bowl.

2. Add salt, chilli powder & turmeric to this.

3. Marinate the chicken with these spices & keep it aside covered for atleast 2 hours.

4. After 2 hours, transfer the marinated chicken to a heavy bottomed kadai.

5. Cook the chicken on low flame covered with a tight fitting lid. The chicken will let out water while cooking so there isn't any need to add water to cook the chicken.

6. If the chicken is fully cooked but there is still water in the pan, then you will have to turn the flame to high & cook till all the water dries up. Please make sure not to burn the chicken.

7. When the chicken is fully cooked, now reduce the flame, add the soy sauce n coat the chicken nicely in the sauce. 

8. When the chicken sucks up all the sauce, add 2 tbsp coconut oil n coat the chicken nicely in the oil and fry for 2-3 minutes on low flame. Add curry leaves & mix everything together. The chicken needs to be nice & brown.

9. Turn off the gas.

10. In another kadai add coconut oil, add the skit green chillies & ginger juliennes & sauté well.

11. Add the thinly sliced onions & sauté till the onions become translucent.

12. Add curry leaves to this & fry well.

13. Add this to the chicken & sauté everything together for half a minute & turn off the gas.

Notes

1. Add coconut oil for the nice flavor & aroma. Coconut oil makes this dish more tasty & flavorful

2. Please feel free to add more chilli powder if u want to

3. Add a lot of green chillies & onions thinly sliced to make the dish more tasty.

4. Add the soy sauce only after the water from cooking the chicken dries up.

5. Do not add the sauce when there's still water in the pan, it will ruin the taste of the dish.

6. There shouldn't be any sauce in the pan, the chicken needs to be coated well in the sauce.