Pepper Coconut Chicken
Pepper Coconut Chicken
Ingredients:
- Chicken cut into pieces 1 kg
- Pepper powder 3 tbsp
- Crushed garlic 3-4 cloves
- Chopped ginger a small piece
- Desiccated coconut ¼ cup
- Unsalted butter 2 tbsp
- Cinnamon 2 sticks
- Cloves few
- Cardamom seeds few
- Tomatoes 2 small
- Coriander powder 2-3 tsp
- Onions 2 medium
- Chilli powder 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder ¼ tsp
- Cumin seeds powder 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves to garnish
- Salt to taste
- Smear 2 tbsp of pepper powder and salt on the chicken pieces. Pierce the chicken pieces with a fork and let the chicken marinate for a few hours. Heat butter in a pan and sauté or shallow fry the chicken pieces one by one. Keep the fried chicken pieces aside.In the same pan add some more butter and fry the sliced onions, cardamoms, ginger, garlic, cloves and cinnamon. When the onions are brown, add the coriander powder, chilli powder, turmeric, cumin powder and sauté. Add the coconut and tomatoes and keep frying. Do not add water. Now add the remaining pepper powder (around 1 tbsp) and fry for a minute. Add water, enough to get a thick paste. Drop the fried chicken pieces into the gravy. Add salt to taste. Let simmer till chicken is well mixed with the pepper masala. Garnish with coriander leaves.
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