Chicken fry is the most favorite dish for almost all non vegetarian lovers. It can be eaten as starter or even have it in meal. People follow different procedures for cooking chicken fry like frying the chicken pieces in oil or cooked after marinating with all spices etc. But How to make is introducing you the unique procedure of cooking chicken fry in tomato puree. As all we know that tomato gives a sour taste. For preparing this chicken fry we have used ripe tomatoes. The chicken is marinated with all spices and cooked, later it is fried in tomato puree. This gives the dish a different flavor and you can experience the sour taste.
Chicken fry is the very common dish prepared in the houses and also it is static dish found in restaurant menus. You can use garam masalas prepared at home like coriander seeds powder or spices masalas. The best taste lies in proper adding of ingredients. So add properly the required quantities of ingredients and taste the chicken fry with tomato puree. For extra taste and gravy i have added dry coconut and cashew nut powder. Fried onions also added at last. By these ingredients chicken fry will get little gravy substance so you can mix with hot rice. Thought the consistency will be low but those who want to eat less spicy can taste this dish in this manner.
Chicken fry
Ingredients
- Chicken – ½ kg
- Tomatoes – 3
- Onions – 3
- Dry coconut – 1 big piece
- Cashew nuts – 20
- Red chili powder – 1 tbsp
- Salt (Required)
- Turmeric – 1 pinch
- Chicken masala powder – 2tbsp
- Oil – 6tbsp
- Cardamom – 2
- Cinnamon sticks – 2
- Cloves – 3
- Lemon – 1
- Green chilies – 2
- Ginger garlic paste – 1tbsp
- Coriander leaves
How to Make
Preparation process
Step 1: Wash the chicken and keep it a side.
Step 2: Chop the onions. Take a dry pan on stove and add these chopped onions in the pan and fry it till the onions become yellow in shade. Collect them and keep it a side.
Step 3: Cut the dry coconut into small pieces. Again use the pan for frying these dry coconut pieces and cashew nuts. Fry them nicely. Collect this into a small jar and grind it into a fine powder. Take this powder into a bowl and keep a side.
Step 4: Cut the tomatoes into small pieces and add them to jar. Grind the tomato pieces into a fine puree. Keep this a side.
Step 5: Chop the green chilies and keep them a side.
Step 6: Now take a thick bottom vessel and add chicken pieces to it.
Step 7: Put ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, salt, turmeric, curd, chopped green chilies, chicken masala powder and oil.
Step 8: Squeeze 1/2 lemon into the chicken. Mix all ingredients with hand.
Step 9: Marinate it and keep the chicken a side for 15 minutes.
Cooking process
Step 10: Keep the marinated chicken vessel on stove. Give a low flame.
Step 11: Cook the chicken for 10 minutes.
Step 12: Water in the chicken evaporates and the pieces become dry.
Step 13: Turn off the flame.
Step 14: Take other pan on stove add oil to it. Give it a medium flame.
Step 15: Add spices cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
Step 16: Now put the grinded tomato puree into the hot oil.
Step 17: Fry it for 2mins and add cooked chicken pieces.
Step 18: Mix it well and fry it for 10mins in low flame.
Step 19: Add grinded dry coconut and cashew nut powder and mix it well.
Step 20: After 2mins add fried onions also and turn off the flame.
Step 21: Garnish the chicken fry with coriander leaves and taste it.
Enjoy tasting this spicy sour chicken fry.