Chicken 65 Recipe

This delicious, deep-fried chicken from the house of Tamil Nadu is marinated in a host of spices and tempered with red chillies, mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Ingredients

• 4 chicken breasts (cut into strips)
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• 1 tsp garlic paste 
• Salt to taste
• 2 tsp turmeric powder 
• 1 tsp red chili powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 1/2 tsp cumin powder
• 1 cup oil
• 2 Tbsp flour
• 1 Tbsp corn flour
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp kashmiri chili powder
• 500 ml soda
• 4 guntur chillies
• 1 tsp mustard seeds
• 6-7 curry leaves
• 5-6 pepper corns

Method

• Marination of the chicken:
• In chicken strips add ginger and garlic paste, salt, turmeric, red chili powder, coriander powder and oil for binding.
• Mix well and put it in fridge for 15-20 minutes.
• Now add one egg, soda, flour and corn flour for the batter.
• Put the batter in fridge for 30 minutes.
• Pour the batter onto the chicken strips.
• Then deep fry them.
• Tempering:
• Add oil in a tadka pan and add Guntur chilly, mustard seeds, curry leaves and sea salt.
• Pour it on the deep fried chicken.
• Serve hot.