Pepper chicken (my way)

Ingredients

Chicken 250 Gms

Ginger garlic paste 1 tsp

Onion diced 2

Tomato 1

Capsicum 1 diced

Chilli powder ½ tsp

Garam masala ½ tsp

Pepper powder 2 tbsp (grind coarsely)

Curry leaf & coriander leaf few

Salt and oil as required

Preparation

1.      In a pan add oil, onion and ginger garlic paste.

2.      Sauté well

3.      Add chicken, chilli powder, garam masala, salt and half of the pepper powder

4.      Allow to cook with lid closed

5.      When it is ¾ cooked, add tomatoes, curry leaf, coriander leaf and capsicum

6.      Toss well

7.      Once oil starts separating, turn off the flame

8.      Add remaining pepper powder and adjust salt

9.      Toss well and serve

Perfect with rotis

Goes with rice too

Yogurt based mutton curry (aatukari thayir kulambu)

Ingredients

Mutton 250 gms

Small onion 15 chopped

Ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp

Tomato 1 chopped

Curd ½ cup

Green chilli 2 slit

Cumin seeds ½ tsp

Fenugreek seeds ½ tsp

Pepper corns ½ tsp

Kulambhu milagai tool (curry powder) 1 ½ tbsp

Garam masala 1 tsp

Salt and oil as required

coriander leaf few

preparation

1.      Marinate mutton with curd, curry powder,ginger garlic paste and salt for an hour

2.      Pressure cook mutton with half of the onion and tomatoes by adding ½ cup of water

3.      In a pan add oil, cumin, pepper, fenugreek seeds, rest of onion , tomato and green chilli

4.      Saute well and add cooked mutton

5.      Once done add pepper powder, garam masala and allow it to boil once

6.      Add coriander leaf and serve

       Serve with rice

Goes well with indian bread

Chicken chukka(simpler version)

Ingredients

 Chicken 500 Gms

Fenugreek seeds 1 tsp

Curry leaf few

Onion chopped 1

Ginger pounded 1 tsp

Garlic chopped 1 tbsp

Turmeric powder ½ tsp

Chilli powder 2 tsp

Coriander powder 2 tsp

Garam masala 1 tsp

Tomato chopped finely 2

Salt and oil as required

Preparation

1.      In a pan add oil, fenugreek seeds and curry leaf

2.      Add onion, ginger, garlic, chicken and sauté well

3.      Add salt and turmeric powder.

4.      Allow to cook in low flame with lid closed

5.      Once ¾ cooked, add chilli powder, coriander powder and garam masala. Toss well

6.      Allow to cook in low flame with lid closed till done

7.      Once done add tomato and cook with lid closed

8.      Once the tomatoes blend well with chicken, toss once

Serve with rotis

Can  serve as a wrap