Monday, January 16, 2012

Chicken moilee(cooked with spices and coconut milk)

Chicken moilee(cooked with spices and coconut milk)
Ingredients:

Chicken(cut into small pieces) 500 gm
Onion(chopped) 1 no
Tomato(chopped) 1 no
Coconut 1/2 no
Cumin 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Ginger 1/2 inch piece
Garlic 2 flakes
Poppy seeds 1/2 tsp
Cinnamon 1/2 inch piece
Green chillies(chopped) 3 no
Pepper powder 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil 5 ml
 
Preparation:

step 1
1. Wash and clean chicken. Add salt and mix well. Keep aside.

step 2
2. Grind cumin, turmeric, ginger, garlic and poppy seeds to a fine paste in a mixer grinder. Cashewnuts can be used instead of poppy seeds.
3. Cut coconut into small pieces and grind in a mixer grinder adding little water. Make 3 extractions of coconut milk and keep it separately.

step 3
4. Heat oil in a thick bottomed kadai and fry chopped onion in a medium fire.
5. Add chicken, ground spices, cinnamon, pepper powder, salt, green chillies, chopped tomato,second and third extractions of coconut milk.
6. Cook in a slow fire till chicken is tender and gravy is thick and oil comes out.

step 4
7. Add first extraction of coconut milk and bring to boil and continue to cook in slow fire for 3 to 5 minutes.

step 5
8. Remove from heat and serve hot with rice or any variety rice or biryani.
 

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