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.

Bhendi Sorisha Khatta

Cooking Time Required: 15 mins
Cost of Preparation: 15-20

Ingredients: 

• Ladiesfinger(bhendi) (200 gm)
• green chilli (1 no.)
• curry leaves (5-6 nos)
• garlic (5 pods) 
• coriander seeds (1/4 tsp) 
• mustard seeds (2 tsp)
• lemon (1 no)
• turmeric powder(1/4 tsp)
• oil
• salt to taste.

Preparation: 

• Wash the ladiesfinger and cut across the section into 1.5 inch sized pieces (do not slit it along the length). 
• Keep aside a few mustard seeds and one pod of garlic for the tempering. 
• Grind the mustard seeds and remaining garlic pods into a fine paste.

Cooking: 

• Heat 2 tsp oil in a deep vessel and fry the ladiesfinger pieces till the stickiness goes away.
• Remove from vessel and keep aside. 
• Add another tsp oil. 
• When it starts smoking, add the coriander and mustard seeds. 
• Add the curry leaves, green chilli and garlic pod to the spluttering seeds. 
• Stir for about a min and add the mustard-garlic paste along with 1 cup of water. 
• Bring it to a boil and add the fried ladiesfinger pieces along with turmeric powder and salt to taste. 
• Allow the curry to boil for 5 mins or till the ladiesfinger becomes soft. 
• Then squeeze the lemon over it and cook for another 30 secs. 
• Remove from the fire and serve with rice.