Nattu kozhi varuval / Chicken fry

Those were the days when chicken is cooked only when some one has severe cold , cough or running nose.  These country chickens /nattu kozhi has medicinal properties to heal common cold. Thanks to broiler chicken now we enjoy variety of  chicken delicacy all through the year. you can try this recipe with broiler chicken as well

Ingredients  ( for 4 servings)

Skin less Chicken – 1 kg

Pepper- 2 tablespoon

Zeera / cummin- 2 tablespoon

Fennel/ Saunf – 2 tablespoon

Ginger-Garlic paste- 2 tablespoon

Chilli powder – 1 tablespoon

Turmeric- pinch

Salt to taste

Oil to cook

 METHOD

    Dry roast Pepper, Zeera and Saunf one by one and dry grind it  together when cooled for masala.

     Always clean chicken with sea salt, turmeric and squeeze of lemon to remove the odour.

 Add ginger garlic paste, ground masala,  chilli powder, turmeric and salt to the chicken and marinate for atleast an hour.

                                                  

Heat oil in a pan, sputter mustard and curry leaves. Add the marinated chicken and give it a nice stir.  Cover it and let it cook in its own juice. No need to add water.  Unlike broiler chicken,  chicken takes long time to cook.

Let all the water  evaporate.  Now chicken starts leaving oil. Fry till  crispy.

Serve hot with bisibele bath or Rasam sadam.