Best of Chettinad Chicken Recipes

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Best of Chettinad Chicken Recipes

• Quick and Easy to make

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Chettinad Chicken
Chettinad Chicken is a spicy dish from the state
of Tamil Nadu. You can try out different recipes
such as Chettinad chicken fry, Chettinad
chicken biryani, Chettinad chicken curry, etc.
The gravy is usually made up of coconut,
turmeric, yoghurt, poppy seeds, onion, garlic and
ginger paste. It can be accompanied with roti
as well as steamed rice. Try out the best
Chettinad chicken recipe given here!
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1. Chettinad Chicken Curry

• Ingredients
• Chicken breasts - 600 gms (cut in cubes)
• Shallots - 150 gms finely chopped
• Garlic - 12 cloves minced
• Ginger - 1 (2 inch piece peeled minced)
• Cinnamon - 1 (3 inch piece roughly broken)
• Dagad/Stone flower - 3 whole (finely chopped)
• Fennel - 1 tsp
• Curry Leaves - 4 sprigs (3 for cooking 1 to
  garnish)
• Sugar - 3/4 tsp

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• Ingredients
• Cooking oil - 1.5 - 2 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• For the fresh spice mix Kashmiri red chili
  powder - 3/4 tbsp
• Black Peppercorns - 3/4 tbsp
• Fennel seeds - 3/4 tbsp
• Coriander seeds - 3/4 tbsp

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• Directions
• Rub a little salt on the chicken and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a deep bottom kadai. Add in cinnamon,
  stone flower fennel seeds fry for a minute.
  Add finely chopped shallots, a pinch of salt
  curry leaves. Fry till the shallots turn golden.
• Add in the chicken stir occasionally. Add in
  the freshly prepared spices and sugar. Mix well
  let the spices coat the chicken pieces nicely.
  Cook for another 10 minutes.
• Add 1/2 cup of water, mix well. Do not add any
  salt, add in more spices if required or else let
  it cook covered for 2o minutes. Keep tossing the
  chicken in between, and add more water if needed.

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2. Chettinad Lobster Khichidi

• Ingredients
• Baby lobster 500 gm
• Baby lobster 500 gm
• Onion 50 gm
• Tomato 50 gm
• Chilies 20 gm
• Ginger 20 gm
• Turmeric powder 5 gm
• Recipe for lobster masala
• Tomato 200 gm
• Button onion 100 gm
• Mustard seed 10 gm

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• Ingredients
• Ginger garlic paste- 10 gm
• Milk 250 ml
• Whole garam masala 5 gm
• Turmeric powder 5 gm
• Coconut oil 20 ml
• Coconut milk 20 ml
• Chettinad masala 20 gm
• Lemon juice 10 gm
• Salt to taste
• Recipe for Beetroot popadam
• Organic beetroot 500 gm
• Egg powder 5 gm
• Natural Starch 10 gm

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• Ingredients
• Curry leaf- a few
• Degimirch 5 gm
• Salt to taste
• Olive Oil to fry
• Fresh corriander a bit

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• Directions
• Make the chettinad masala Take coconut oil in
  pan. Temper with curry leaf and mustard seeds.
  Add chopped ginger and garlic with chopped button
  onion . Once its brown add chopped tomato, salt ,
  red chili , turmeric ,chettinad masala . Finish
  with coconut milk and lemon juice. This is the
  chettinad masala.
• To Make the khichadi -
• Soak the rice for 45 minutes. Take another pan.
  Add ghee, ginger garlic paste and whole garam
  masala . Now add the soaked rice with water and
  milk and let it cook. Adjust the seasoning and
  put turmeric .let it cook for 40 mts. khichdi
  will be ready.
• Devein and de shell the lobster. Bake the shell
  in the oven. Take a pan . add coconut oil and
  temper with curry leaf .

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• Dice the meat and cook for 5 mts .add chettinad
  masala . Keep it warm on the pan.
• Roast the beetroot in the oven. Puree it and add
  egg powder and natural starch. Season it .spread
  it on a sil pat and bake for 10 mts at 180 degree
  centigrade.
• Take it out and fry it so that it becomes crisp
  as poppadum. On a clean plate add khichdi. Put
  shell on top and add lobster masala on it. Serve
  it with beetroot poppadum. Garnish with fresh
  coriander.