Chettinad Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken – 1 kg

Onion – 3

Tomato puree – 1 cup

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbl.sp

Coriander powder – ¼ cup

Chilli powder – 1 tbl.sp or as per taste

Cumin seed – 2 tsp

Pepper – 2 tsp

Fennel seed or saunf – 2 tsp

Cloves and tamarind as required

Turmeric powder – ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Oil – 5 tsp

Method

Clean and Wash the chicken and cut to pieces. Make a powder of pepper, cumin seeds and fennel and fry it lightly and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan and add cloves to it, then add onion and tomato and fry till light golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste and after one minute, add chicken pieces, turmeric, chilli and coriander powder, tamarind pulp and salt. Mix all these together and cook for ten minutes. Then add 4 cups of water and boil. When chicken is half boiled, add powder of pepper, cumin and fennel and mix well. Cook till gravy thickens and serve hot.