Chicken Roast

Ingredients:

1.      Chicken-1 Kg

2.     Chilly powder-1.5-2 tsp

   Coriander powder- 3 tsp

   Garam masala- 1 tsp

   Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp

   Yogurt -4 tsp

        Salt

        Ginger- 1 inch piece

        Garlic -4

3.     Onion-2, thinly sliced

4.     Green chilly-3, sliced

5.     Curry leaves- 2 sprigs

6.     Pepper powder- 1 tsp

7.     Whole garam masala (Cloves-4,Cardamom- 4,Cinnamon-1 inch piece)-crushed

8.  Oil for frying

9.  Potato-1, diced (optional)

10. Tomato-1, diced
11. Coconut milk  ~2 cups

Method:

Clean chicken and cut into medium sized pieces.

Crush together ginger and garlic. Marinate the chicken with the ingredients 2 for 30min. Add one cup of water or thin coconut milk to the marinated chicken and cook covered until it is half done. Slightly fry green chilly and curry leaves and keep aside. Take out the chicken pieces from the gravy (Save the remaining gravy), shallow fry the chicken pieces and keep aside. Fry onions in a pan until they are transparent and add  the remaining gravy. Saute for a while and add the chicken pieces, fried green chillies, curry leaves, chopped tomato, crushed whole garam masala and pepper powder. Add ½ -1 cup of water or thin coconut milk to mix everything. Saute in medium heat until the gravy is thick and it is well coated on the chicken. Serve hot with rice.

Tips: If you like to add potato cook them with chicken. Take care not to overcook.

Chembu puzhungiyathu(Boiled Malanga)

 
Ingredients:
Chembu/ Malanga -4
Salt
Water
For mulaku pottichathu:
Yogurt- 1 cup
Pearl onion-5-6
Green chilly 1-2
Salt

Method:
Peel the skin of chembu (Malanga). Wash and cut into pieces. Boil in plenty of water until they are fork tender. Add salt, cook for 2 more min then drain all the water(Take care not to overcook). Serve hot with mulaku pottichathu.
Mulaku pottichathu: Crush together pearl onion and green chilly. Mix it with yogurt and add salt.

Buffalo hot wings

 
Ingredients:
Chicken wings-4 
Vinegar-2 tsp
Black pepper powder-1/2- 1 tsp
Chilly sauce-2 tsp
Hot wing sauce-1/4 cup
Butter for frying(~1/6 th of a stick)
Salt

Method:
Clean chicken wings (Do not remove skin), discard the tips and cut each into two pieces.You can make tiny gashes on the skin for sauces to penetrate.
Marinate with black pepper powder, chilly sauce, vinegar and salt for an hour.
Melt butter in a frying pan and add the marinated wings. Fry in medium heat for 10 min each side. Apply half of the hot wing sauce and fry both sides 5 min each sides. Stop heating, let sit for 10 min and coat well with the remaining hot wing sauce.  
Tips: You can bake at 400-450F for 20 min each side instead of frying.