Karaikudi Chicken Fry | Chicken fry in Karaikudi Style
Karaikudi chicken fry is a special chicken fry recipe of Karaikudi district and tastes delicious with the freshly ground masalas and Indian spices.
Servings: 4
Calories: 500kcal
Ingredients
Marination
- Chicken – 1/2 kg
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Lemon Juice – 1 tbsp
- Salt – 1/2 tsp
To grind
- Red Chillies – 3
- Coriander seeds – 1 tbsp
- Pepper – 1 tsp
- Cloves – 3 to 4
- Cinnamon stick – 2 inch – crushed
- Fennel seeds – 1 tsp
- Bay leaves – 2
- Curry leaves – 1 spring
- Grated Coconut – 2tbsp
For Gravy
- Oil – 2 tbsp
- Mustard seeds – a pinch
- Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Fennel seeds – 1/2 tsp
- Onion – 2 chopped finely
- Tomato – 2 chopped finely
- Garlic – 4 cloves
- Ginger paste – 1 tsp
- Chilli powder – 1 tsp check for the spiciness before adding
- Coriander powder – 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves – few
- Water – as required
- Salt – as required
Instructions
- Wash the chicken pieces nicely with salt. Marinate the chicken pieces with turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt and lemon juice for 40 min at least. In a kadai or pan, add 1tsp oil and fry the red chillies, coriander seeds, curry leaves, cinnamon stick, cloves, pepper, bay leaf, fennel seeds one by one.
- Finally add the grated coconut and fry for a min. Allow to cool and grind to a smooth paste adding little water.
- In the same kadai, add the oil and when hot, add the mustard seeds and when it got splutters, add the fennel seeds and cumin seeds. Add the onion and saute well.
- Add the garlic and tomato and ginger paste. Saute till the tomato becomes mushy.
- Add the coriander powder and saute again. Now add the ground paste from step 2.
- Add required water and allow it to cook.
- Add the marinated chicken pieces and again cook adding little water. (Chicken leaves out water while cooking).
- When the oil starts oozing out from the gravy add the coriander leaves. Give a stir and switch off the stove.
Notes
This fry can be made as semi gravy or gravy by adding less or more onion and tomato. But while adding check for the spiciness and salt.