Chettinad chicken

Ingredients

• 15 pcs of boneless chicken
• haldi and salt to taste
• oil
• dhania
• Saunf
• Black pepper
• Cumin seeds
• Cloves 2
• Cardamom small and big both
• cinnamon
• couple of bay leaves
• garlic cloves 4
• dry red chillies
• coconut
• ginger
• tamarind
• chopped onions
• curry leaves

Method

1. Marinade 15 pcs of boneless chicken for one hour in 4 lemons, haldi and salt to taste
2. In a pan. Heat oil. Add dhania, Saunf, Black pepper, Cumin seeds, Cloves 2, Cardamom small and big both, cinnamon.
3. Add couple of bay leaves garlic cloves 4 dry red chillies also. Sauté them all together. Get them to a brown color. Take them on a plate let the spices cool.
4. Grate coconut. Put in pan and saute to a brown sumptuous color.
5. Mix the top two in a bowl. Let it cool. Put in a grinder. Add ginger and tamarind and water. Make a fine paste of the same.
6. Take a pan. Put oil. Add chopped onions like petals. Add curry leaves. Add the already marinaded chicken. Saute for 3 minutes. Add fine paste. Add salt.
7. Let the chicken cook on simmer gas till it cooks
8. Add water as per the reqd to cook the chicken.