Naattu kozhi kulambu

Hi, last sunday  i prepared naatu kozhi kulambu. This is my husband's favourite. He loves it. Hope u too will love it.

Ingredients:

Naatu kozhi-1/2kg
onion(small)- 10
tomato-11/2
coriander powder-2sp
chilli powder-1sp
garam masala powder-1sp
bay leaf-1
cloves-1
cinamon-1inch
coriander leaf- for garnishing
oil-3sp
salt-as required
FOR GRINDING:
coconut-grated1cup
pepper seeds-1sp
jeera-1/2sp
big jeera-1/2 sp
garlic-4
water little for grinding it as paste

• Firstly clean the chicken nicely with turmeric powder and keep it aside. Cut the onion and tomato into small pieces.
• Grind the items given for grinding in the mixer. 
• Keep the pressure cook in the stove. pour oil and put bay leaf, cinamon, cloves.fry till it becomes brown. 
• Now add onion and saute it nicely later add tomato fry for few minutes.
• Add the cleaned chicken pieces it in. Fry the chicken nicely allow the water to come from the chicken. Wait till the color changes in the chicken. Now add the coriander powder, chilli powder, garam masala powder, and salt.
• Nicely mix the chicken with powder and it will come as nice gravy. Now add coconut grinded paste in it. Pour the water according to the thickness of the kulambu u need. 
• close the lid of the pressure cooker. Leave to 5 whistles in high flame and later keep it in low flame for few minutes. Naatu kozhi will not boil easily. so if it is not boiled keep another 2 whistles.
• Garnish it with coriander leaf. Now yummy naatu kozhi kulambu is ready.

You can serve it with hot rice, dosa, idaly, chapathi,idiyappam

ginger chicken

I learnt this ginger chicken from my mother in law. It is very tasty and comes out very well with the ginger flavour. It is very traditional recipe.
Ingredients:
Chicken-1/2 kg
Onion-10pods(small)
tomato-1
sombu-1 sp
ging
ginger-1 1/2 table spoon full
chilli powder-1sp
curry leaf- 1 handful
salt-as req
1. First grind onion, tomato,ginger, chilli powder,curry leaf.
2. 3 spoon oil in the fry pan. put sombu, jeera
3. pour the grinded paste in it. Till the raw smell goes fry it.
4. put the chicken and saute it nicely so that the grinded paste nicely coat the chicken.
5. close it with lid and leave it for 5mins.
6. After the water comes out from the chicken. open it. if needed add salt and chilli powder at this stage.
7. If needed add some water if the chicken is not boil and allow it to boil.
8. If you want to serve it like gravy u can take the chicken after it gets boil and it comes to gravy stage.
9. if you want chicken to be separate like fried chicken. keep the flame in the high. Allow the chicken to coat it with the gravy.
10. Atlast garnish with the coriander leaf.

chicken fry

Ingredients:
chicken-1/2 kg
curd-1/2 cup
chilli powder- 1sp(or)chicken65 powder
masala powder-1sp
ginger garlic paste-1sp
salt as required
Procedure:
1. Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients above.
2. Put oil in the fry pan. After the oil get heated. put chicken in the pan and saute it nicely. so that oil will get added with the chicken
3. Put it in low flame. so that the chicken water comes out from the curd and chicken
4. cook till the chicken is boiled.
5. After you are sure the chicken is boiled.
6. Keep the flame in high. Saute it nicely otherwise gravy will get burnt. saute it nicely so that all the gravy nicely join with the chicken.
7. chicken will be dry
At last garnish with coriander leaf. you can serve with rice as side dish. It is fried chicken with less oil. Very easy and less oil chicken fry.

chicken kulambu

Ingredients:

Chicken-1/2kg
oil-3sp

For seasoning items:
jeera-1sp
sombu-1sp
bay leaf-1
cinnamon stick-small piece
elachi- 1
cloves -2
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For grinding:

coconut-half cup grated coconut
sombu, jeera- 1/2 sp
kus kus - 1sp
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onion-1
tomato-1(big)
ginger garlic paste- 1tsp
green chilli- 2
curry leaf- little
coriander leaf for garnishing
coriander powder- 2sp
chilli powder- 1 sp
salt - 1 1/2 sp
Procedure:
1. First cut the chicken and clean it properly. use turmeric powder for cleaning chicken. If you are not going to cook the chicken immediately. u can marinate chicken with curd and turmeric powder.
2. Grind the item given for grinding in a fine paste.
3. Keep kadai in the stove. pour oil in the kadai.put the items given for seasoning in the kadai. After it get fried. put onion to fry. Put one pinch of salt so that onion will get fry soon.Onion gets cooked put tomato.
4. Tomato cooked put ginger garlic paste to it. Add green chilli.
5. put chicken pieces. saute the gravy nicely with the chichen. close the kadai. leave it till the water comes out from the chicken.
6. After all the water comes out from the chicken. Put all the powders. given . Again saute the chicken nicely with the powders so that chicken will get nicely marinate with the coriander powders. chicken will look like dry gravy.
7. pour 1cup water. saute it.
8.keep it in full flame. After your chicken starts boiling in full flame. after 2 mins put the coconut paste in it.
9. saute it again and keep in medium flame. so that chicken will get boiled nicely
10. After it comes to kulambu consistency. Off the flame and garnish with coriander leaf.

yummy and tasty chicken kulambu is ready. You can serve it with rice, chapathi or parotta also.



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