Chicken Recipes

2. Chinese Chicken

This dish has a slightly sweet and tangy taste because of  jaggery and soya sauce. If you’re fond of tangy taste, this will seem yum to you.

Ingredients: 

1 boneless chicken- cut into 1 ½ “ pcs.
1 cup sliced veggies (capsicum, carrot and some french beans)
salt to taste
oil for cooking
some hakka noodles-boiled
about 2 tsp. black pepper pdr.
about ½ tbsp. white vinegar + 2 tsp vinegar
1 tsp. cornflour

For the marination:

2 tsp. ginger paste
2 tsp. garlic paste
1 ½ tsp. red chilli pdr.
½ tbsp. Soya sauce
½ tbsp. jaggery- grated

Method: 

1.Marinade the chicken in the above mentioned ingredients for about 3 hrs. 

2. Heat oil in a pan and add the chicken and let it cook on a slow flame till tender. 
     
     3. Before removing from heat add the cornflour.  

4. Let cook for 5 more mins. 

5. Before serving heat the chicken and coat it with 2 tsp of vinegar and shut gas immediately and coat the remaining vinegar on the veggies and the noodles and fry immediately. Use them to garnish the dish.

3. Sauces n Vinegar Chicken

Ingredients: 

1 chicken- cut into medium size pieces
1 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp. green chilli sauce
1 tbsp. soya sauce
¾ tbsp. tomato sauce
1 tbsp. white vinegar
1 bunch chopped spring onions- keep the greens and the white part seperate
1 tbsp. grated cheese
1 tsp. jeera/ cumin seeds
1 green chilli (slit)
1 tbsp. oil/ butter for cooking Method:

Method:

1. Marinade the chicken in the sauces and the vinegar for about 2 hrs. 

2. Heat the oil/ butter in a vessel. (If using butter add about 1 tsp. oil as well in the pan to prevent the butter from burning) 

3. Add the jeera, the chilli and the white of the spring onions. Sauté for about 5 mins. 

4. Then add the chicken along with the sauces and cook till tender. 

5. Before shutting the gas add the greens of the spring onions and lightly sauté for a minute or so. 

6. Serve hot garnished with grated cheese.

4. Delicious Chicken Biryani 

This recipe is mouth watering and is so simple to make that you will find it to be absolutely non fussy. 

Ingredients:

½ kg. Chicken – cleaned and cut into medium sized pieces 

2 ½ cups Basmati rice
2 big potatoes- peeled and cut into big pieces
2 big onions- sliced and fried in ghee till golden brown
3 cloves
2 “ piece of taj/cinnamon
1 pinch kesar pdr. heated in 1 tsp. milk
1 badi elaichi/cardamom
2 small elaichis- powdered
3 black peppers
2 tbsp. garlic paste
1 ½ tbsp. ginger paste
1 ½ tsp. turmeric pdr.
2 ½ tsps. red chilli pdr
2 tbsps. chopped coriander
200 gms. curd
1 petal of star anise/ chakra phool
½ tsp. jaiful pdr.
1 pinch javitri pdr.
1 tbsp. whole jeera- roasted and kept aside
ghee for cooking
salt to taste

First do the seasoning: 

Warm about ½ tbsp. ghee and add jeera, elaichi, taj, clove, chakra phool and peppers. Shut the gas and let this cool down.

For the marination: 

Marinade the chicken for at least ½ hr in curd, ginger paste, garlic paste, chilli pdr, turmeric pdr.,jaiful pdr., javitri pdr., elaichi pdr., kesar milk, fried onions, salt, potatoes and the above seasoning.

Proceed further:

Soak the rice for about ½ hour in water before cooking. 

Parboil the rice and keep aside.
Add the coriander to the marinade and mix properly. Check for seasoning

For the cooking:

Take a big vessel and grease it with ghee on the base.

Layer the chicken marination and then layer the rice on top.
Add enough water required to cook the rice.
Pour ghee on top of the rice.
Cover and cook till biryani is done.

5. Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients:

300 gms. chicken with bone

3 big garlic flakes

1 kashmiri chilli

Pound the garlic and chilli together

1 “ ginger paste

1 ½ tbsp chopped cabbage

25 gms. green peas (blanched)

1 tbsp. sliced capsicum

1 tbsp. sliced french beans

3 spring onions chopped – keep the white and green part seperate

1 pinch ajinomoto/ MSG

3-4 white peppers powder

1 celery stick -chopped

½ tbsp. tomato sauce

1 tbsp. soya sauce

2 tbsp. chilli sauce

1 tsp. green chilli paste

1 ½ cups rice- cooked in twice the amount of water and drained

some noodles (optional)

Method:

1.      Boil the chicken in some water with 1 tsp. green chilli paste and 1 tsp ginger paste. Shred the chicken and keep aside

2.      Boil the rice in ample of water and keep aside. 

3.      Sauté the veggies (except green peas) one by one in a pan with little oil.

4.      Take some oil in a pan and add ginger, garlic, chilli paste and sauté.

5.      Add the whites of the spring onions and sauté.

6.      Add the white pepper, ajinomoto, salt, veggies, chicken, celery, the greens of the spring onions and mix well.

7.      Add the sauces and the rice and noodles and remove from flame. Mix well and check for seasoning.

8.      Spread this into a greased vessel, cover and let cook till done.