Kitchen and Home Making

Join with us in the EFM - Parathas and Gravies/ Curries Series and for further details, click HERE ! Ingredients: Chicken - 1/2 kg (clean and cut into cubes) Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 tsp Chilly Powder - 4 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp Lemon Juice - 5 tsp Curd - 2 tsp Red Food Color - a pinch Salt - 1 tsp Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Mix Ginger Garlic Paste, Coriander Powder, Chilly Powder, Turmeric Powder, Garam Masala, Lemon Juice, Curd, Red Food Color and salt in a bowl and make a thick paste. Add chicken pieces to it and mix well and let it marinate in the refrigerator for an hour. After an hour, heat oil in a pan and deep fry the chicken in batches until it turns golden brown in color. Chicken 65 is ready to serve! Side Dish: Goes well with Lemon Rice, Tomato Rice, Biryani, White Rice Recipe adopted from here ! Thanks Mullai!

Join with us in the EFM- Mutton Series and deadline for the event is 15th of Febuary! Send in your entries soon! Ingredients: Chicken - 1/2 kg Egg - 1 Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Yellow Bell Pepper - 1/2 (cut into wedges) Green Bell Pepper - 1/2 (cut into wedges) Chopped Ginger and Garlic - 3 tsp Soy Sauce - 4 tbsp Chilli Sauce - 2 tbsp Tomato sauce - 3 tbsp Corn Flour - 4 tbsp Rice Flour - 1 tsp Maida /All Purpose Flour - 1 tsp Chilli Powder - 2 tsp Orange Food Color - a pinch Spring Onion and Coriander Leaves - few to garnish (finely chopped) Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the chicken and cut into small cubes. Drain the excess water well. Add 2 tbsp corn flour, rice flour, maida, 1 tbsp soy sauce, egg, food color, chilli powder and 1/2 tsp of salt in a bowl and mix well without any lumps. Add chicken pieces to it and let it marinate for about 1/2 hour in refrigerator. After half an hour, deep fry the chicken pieces in oil to ...

Join with us in the EFM - MUTTON SERIES and for more details about the event, click  HERE ! Ingredients for Marination: Chicken -1/2 kg Lime Juice - 2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1/4 tsp Marination Instructions: In a large bowl, mix chicken, lime juice, turmeric powder and salt and let it marinate for about 1/2 hour. Ingredients for Grinding: Coriander Seeds - 4 tbsp Dessicated Coconut - 5 tsp Poppy Seeds - 3 tsp Split Roasted Gram / Pottukadalai - 2 tsp Peppercorns - 2 tsp Fennel Seeds - 2 tsp Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp Red Chilli - 5 Cardamom - 3 Cloves - 3 Cinnamon - 2 Mace - 2 Star Anise -2  petals Instructions for Grinding: Dry roast all the ingredients specified above for about 3 minutes until it smells good. Let it cool for few minutes and grind it to a smooth powder without adding water. Ingredients for Frying: Onion (Medium Size) - 2 (finely chopped) Tomato - 2 (finely chopped) Green Chilly - 1 (slit lengthwise) Gi...

 Ingredients : Chicken - 1/2 kg (clean and cut into cubes) Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Cumin Powder - 1/2 tsp Chilly Powder - 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Salt - to taste Cooking Oil - 5 tbsp Service For : 2 People Cooking Time : 20 minutes   Cooking Instructions : Add chicken pieces and enough amount of water in a pressure cooker and cook until the Chicken is soft and well done. Do not drain off the excess water (which we call as soup) since you can use it while frying the chicken which gives an added taste. Heat oil in a pan and fry the pepper powder, chilly powder, cumin powder and garam masala and ginger garlic paste for a while until the raw smell leaves off. But do not burn it off and so take care while u fry the dry powders. Add the cooked chicken along with the soup and required amount of salt to it now and cook until the gravy becomes dry. It can be served with rice, rotis, naan and briyani. Join with us in the EFM...

A few clicks that i happened to take last week when i prepared Pepper Chicken , which was already posted by me in my blog, a very long ago and those clicks are here once again for you, my friends!!! Click HERE for the RECIPE ! Like this article? Subscribe to the RSS feed!

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Chicken - 1/2 kg (Wash and cut into cubes) Onion - 1 big number (finely chopped) Tomato - 3 (finely chopped) Cashews - 50 gms Coriander Powder - 3 tsp Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Chilli Powder - 1 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Green Chilli - 2 Aniseed - 1 tsp Curry Leaves - few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Heat oil in a pan and saute it with aniseed and curry leaves. Add Cashews and onion to it and fry until the cashews turn golden brown in color. Add tomato, ginger garlic paste and green chilli to it at this stage and fry until the tomatoes are mashed well. Add chicken to it followed by coriander powder, chilly powder, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt. Stir fry until all the dry powders coat on the chicken well and the raw smell leaves off. Add enough water to it and cook it covered until the chicken is d...

Join with us in EFM - BREAKFAST SERIES! Rush up to send in your entries. For more details about the event, click HERE! Ingredients: Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg (wash and cut into small cubes and drain the excess water completely) Butter - 100 gms Fresh Cream - 100 ml Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Ripe Tomato - 3 (finely chopped) Tomato Sauce - 2 tsp Coriander Powder - 2 and 1/2 tsp Chilli Powder - 1 and 1/2 tsp Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp Green Chilli - 2 Cashews - 5 pieces Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 tsp Aniseed - 1 tsp Sugar - 1/4 tsp Red Food Color - 2 pinches (diluted in water) Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: In a bowl, take chicken and add 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste, 1/2 tsp of chilli powder, 1/2 tsp of coriander powder and 1/4 tsp of salt to the pan and mix well so that all the masalas coat on the chicken well. Heat oil in deep pan to shallow fry the chicken. Add chicken pieces to it now and Keep frying it until the chicken turns little brown in color. When it starts to t...

Before Coming to the Recipe Section, I welcome you all to Enroll Their Food / Recipe Blogs ! For more details, click HERE ! Ingredients: Chicken – ½ kg (wash and cut into cubes) Egg – 1 Green Chilly – 3 Corn Flour – 1 ½ tsp Rice Flour – 1 ½ tsp Pepper Powder – ½ tsp Chilly Powder – ½ tsp Ajinomoto – ½ tsp Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp Ginger (finely chopped) – ½ tsp Garlic (finely chopped) – ½ tsp Curry Leaves – few Coriander Leaves – to garnish Red Color – few drops (diluted in water) Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Mix chicken, salt, ginger garlic paste, ajinomoto, ¼ tsp pepper powder, corn flour, rice flour and egg well in a bowl and let it to sit for 15 minutes. Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated chicken pieces in batches till it is light golden brown in color. Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a pan and saute it with chopped ginger and garlic, chopped chillies and curry leaves. Now add remaining pepper powder, chilly powder, a pinch of salt...

Ingredients: Chicken Legs – 4 Hung Curd – 4 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp Coriander Powder – 1 tsp Chilly Powder – 1 tsp Turmeric Powder – ¼ tsp Pepper Powder – ½ tsp Cumin Powder – 1 tsp Garam Masala – 1 tsp Food Color (red) – a little Lime – ½ (extract juice from it) Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: I purchased a microwave oven in this new year and am keep trying recipes in it. This tandoori chicken recipe is the first microwave oven recipe in my blog. Mix curd, ginger garlic paste, coriander powder, chili powder, pepper powder, turmeric powder, cumin powder, garam masala, food color, lime juice and salt together in a bowl and mix well. Do not add water. The mixture should be little thick in consistency. So add lime juice accordingly. If the mixture is little watery, the chicken will not hold the marination well. Now wash and clean the chicken legs well and let it to drain water for 5 to 10 minutes. Make few slits on each leg. Now marinate the chicken legs with pr...

Ingredients: Chicken – ½ kg Onion – 1(finely chopped) Medium size Tomatoes – 2 (finely chopped) Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tbsp Coriander Powder – 1 tbsp Chilly Powder – ½ tbsp Pepper Powder – 2 tbsp Cloves – 4 Cardamom – 4 Aniseeds – 1 or 2 tbsp Bay Leaf – 2 Cinnamon - 2 Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Wash and clean the chicken and cut it into cubes and keep it aside. Heat a tbsp of oil in a pan and add onions and tomatoes and sauté it well. Let this mixture cool a while and then grind it to a smooth paste. Heat 5 tbsp of oil in a pressure cooker and sauté it with cloves, cinnamon, aniseeds, bay leaves and cardamom. Add grinded paste and ginger garlic paste to it and stir fry until the raw smell leaves off. Now add turmeric powder, coriander powder, chilli powder and pepper powder and stir fry it well. Now add the chicken pieces to it with required amount of water and salt and close the lid of the cooker. Let it cook until the chicken is well cooked. Open the lid of th...

Ingredients: Chicken – ½ kg (wash and clean it and cut into cubes) Tomato – 2 (medium Size) Onion – 1 (medium Size) Coriander Seeds – 1 tbsp Pepper Corns – 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds – ½ tbsp Dry Red Chilly - 6 Ginger Garlic Paste – 1 tsp Cloves – 2 Bay Leaf – 2 Cardamom – 2 Cinnamon – 2 Aniseeds – ¼ tsp Salt – to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Instructions: Chop the onion and tomatoes finely. Heat oil in a pan and sauté it with cardamom, cinnamon, bay leaf, cloves and aniseeds. Add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, pepper corns and dry red chilly and fry for a while. Now add finely chopped onion and tomatoes to it and stir fry until the tomatoes and onion become soft. Switch off the flame and let it cool for a while. Grind this to a fine paste. Add chicken and grind paste in a pressure cooker. Add about 2 glasses of water and required amount of salt and close the lid and let it to cook until the chicken is well cooked. Open the lid of the cooker and check out the consistency of the kolambu. If it is m...

Ingredients : Chicken - 1/2 kg (cut into cubes) Kolambu Powder - 4 tbsp Tomato - 3 (finely chopped) Onion -1 (cut it lengthwise) Pepper Powder - 2 tsp Curry Leaves -few Salt - to taste Cooking Oil Cooking Time : 30 minutes Service For : 3 People Cooking Instructions : Heat oil in a pressure cooker and saute it with onions and tomatoes for a while. Add required water and kolambu powder to the cooker so that no lumps are found. Now add chicken pieces, pepper powder, curry leaves and salt. Close the lid and simmer the flame and let it cook for about 20 minutes or until chicken is well cooked. Serve the dish with hot rice.

I never thought the response for the Chicken Event would be so immense. I am really very happy and thank you all for your support and encouragement. If i have missed any of your entries, please contact me to my mail id srikitchen@gmail.com, so that i can update the missing entries. Soup 1. Chettinaad Kozhi Rasam from Vanisri of Illatharasi 2. Chicken Soup from Vanisri of Illatharasai 3. Spicy Chili from Aartee of From the Kitchen Gravy 1. Chettinaad Pepper Chicken from Lakshmi Venkatesh of Kitchen Chronicles 2. Nilgiri Chicken Kuruma from Cham of Spice-Club 3. Murg Kalia from Arundati of Gourmet Affair 4. Szechwan Chicken from Pavani of Food Lovers 5. Chicken Gravy from VaniSri of Illatharasi 6. Naatu Kozhi Kolambu from Ramya of Ramya's Kitchen Corner 7. Chicken in Tomato Gravy from Aartee of From the Kitchen 8. Coriander Leaves Chicken Gravy from Priya of Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes Curry 1. Spicy Chicken Curry from Aartee of Nalabagham 2. Chicken Do Pyaza ...