Pepper Chicken

Ingredients

• 2-2.5 pounds of chicken cut into pieces
• 3 tbsp of pepper powder
• 3-4 flakes of garlic paste
• A small piece of ginger paste
• Some dry coconut
• unsalted butter
• A few sticks of cinnamon.
• Some cloves
• A few cardomom seeds
• 2 small tomatoes
• 2-3 tsp coriander powder
• 2 Medium onions
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• A little haldi powder
• 1 tsp cumin seeds powder Coriander leaves to garnish
• Salt to taste

Method

• Smear 2 tbsp of pepper powder and salt on the chickenpieces.
• Pierce the chicken pieces with a fork and let the chicken marinate for a few hours.
• Heat some butter (you can also use oil!)in a pan and fry the chicken pieces one by one.
• Not deep fry, just like frying onions. Keep the fried chicken pieces aside.
• In the same oil (butter) you used to fry the chicken, now fry the sliced onions, cardomom, ginger, garlic, cloves and cinammon.
• When the onions are brown, add the coriander powder, chilli powder, haldi, cumin powder and fry for 1 1/2 minutes.
• Add the coconut and tomatoes and keep frying. Do not add water.
• Now add the remaining pepper powder (around 1 tbsp) and fry for a minute.
• Now add water, enough to get a thick paste. Drop the fried chicken pieces into the gravy and you can add water to make it into a thin gravy.
• Add salt to taste. Boil for 10 minutes, till chicken is well mixed with the pepper masala. Garnish with coriander leaves. Eat hot with rice and enjoy.