Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe- Curry Leaf Flavoured Chicken
Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe is an easy to prepare chicken recipe that is cooked in a delicious curry leaves masala. Serve it as an appetizer or as a side dish to your main course.
Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe is a delicious protein packed starter that you can make for your family and friends as a special meal. The chicken is cooked along with roasted curry leaf masala that includes other spices as well.
Fried onions also gives the delicious taste to the whole dish. The taste and aroma is so appetizing when this dish is prepared at home.
Did you know: Curry leaf is a herb that is used often in Indian cooking and it is rich in Iron and folic acid. It is also rich in vitamins which is helpful for diabetics and lowers cholesterol. It is also good for hair growth.
Serve the Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe as an appetizer with chilled Beer or serve it along with a simple Sunday lunch with Chettinad Style Poondu Rasam Recipe - Garlic Rasam Recipe, piping hot Steamed Rice and Elai Vadam Recipe for a comforting South Indian lunch.
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4 Servings
Ingredients
- 500 grams Chicken , pieces
- 1 Onion , chopped
- 1 inch Ginger , chopped
- 4 cloves Garlic , chopped
- 2 Green Chillies , slit
- 1 tablespoon Coriander Powder (Dhania)
- 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)
- Salt , to taste
- 1 sprig Coriander (Dhania) Leaves
- Oil For the Karuveppilai Masala
- 4 sprig Curry leaves
- 1 inch Cinnamon Stick (Dalchini)
- 1 Star anise
- 1 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds
- 2 Stone flower
- 2 teaspoon Fennel seeds (Saunf)
- 2 Dry Red Chillies
- 1 teaspoon Black pepper powder
How to make Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe- Curry Leaf Flavoured Chicken
To begin making the Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe, wash and clean the chicken thoroughly.
Heat a skillet on low flame, add curry leaves, cinnamon stick, star anise, cardamom pod, stone flower, fennel seeds, dry red chillies, black peppercorns and dry roast all of them. Roast until the aroma of spices wafts through.This will take about 5-7 minutes. Turn off the flame.
Allow the spices to cool down to room temperature and grind it into a smooth powder using a mixer-grinder.
Set aside.
Next, place a heavy bottom pan on medium flame, add some oil. Once the oil is hot, add ginger and garlic and saute for a couple of minutes. Add in onions and saute till they turn translucent. This will take about a minute or two.
Once the onion have softened, add the green chillies and chicken pieces along with turmeric powder.
Stir the ingredients together until the chicken is half cooked. Add in the Karuveppilai Masala and coriander powder, sprinkle salt and keep roasting until the chicken is well cooked.
You can sprinkle some water if the masala is getting stuck at the bottom. Cover and cook for 2 minutes. Finally add chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.
Serve the Karuveppilai Chicken Fry Recipe as an appetizer with chilled Beer or serve it along with a simple Sunday lunch with Chettinad Style Poondu Rasam Recipe - Garlic Rasam Recipe, piping hot Steamed Rice and Elai Vadam Recipe for a comforting South Indian lunch.
