Chilly Chicken Pizza

Ingredients:

• Ready-made pizza base 2
• Pizza cheese 150 g

For Marinating:

• Boneless chicken 150 g
• Red chilly paste 1 Tsp
• Chopped capsicum 1 small
• Chopped onion 1 small
• Soy sauce 1 Tsp
• Vinegar 1 Tsp
• Salt 1/2 Tsp
• Pepper 1/2 Tsp
• Oregano 1/2 Tsp
• Cornflour 1 Tsp
• Oil 1 Tbsp
• Chopped garlic 4 pods
• Ready made tomato puree 1/2 cup
• Tomato ketchup 3 Tbsp

Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients for 1 to 1 1/2 h. Cover it and microwave it for 3 min. For preparing pizza, arrange it on a wire rack or greased tawa. Add some cheese and spread the chilly chicken. Sprinkle the remaining cheese. Preheat the oven to 250 deg C and bake it for 8 min or till the base gets crisp and the cheese melts.

[Recipe Courtesy: Nita Mehta's Cookbook, Tastes of India (Microwave recipes)]

Chicken Pepper Fry

Ingredients:

• Chicken 1 kg
• Onion 4 
• Green chilly 5
• Pepper pdr 2 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 3/4 Tsp
• Vinegar 1 1/2 Tbsp
• Curry leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and cut the chicken into med pieces. Add chopped onion (med size), sliced chilly, 1 tsp pepper pdr, turmeric pdr, vinegar, salt and a few curry leaves into chicken. Cook it well. Remove the lid and saute till it becomes dry. Heat oil in a pan and add curry leaves, garam masala and pepper pdr. Add cooked chicken into this and make it dry.

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Ingredients:

For Rice:

• Rice 1 kg
• Water 7 1/2 to 8
• Lime juice of 1 lime
• Cinnamon 1 big piece
• Cardamom 1 to 2
• Cloves 2 to 3
• Ghee as rqd
• Salt

Wash the rice and drain it for 10 to 15 mins. Add 1 tbsp ghee, lime juice, crushed whole spices and salt into water and boil well. At the same time saute the rice in little ghee. When it starts to crack, pour the boiling water into the rice. Cover it and cook well. When it becomes void of moisture content, remove the rice and keep it aside.

For Garnishing:

• Cashew nuts 1/2 cup
• Raisins 1/2 cup
• Fried onion as rqd
• Rose water 1 to 2 Tbsp
• Corriander leaves as rqd
• Mint leaves as rqd

Fry thinly sliced onions in ghee till it turns golden brown. Fry cashews and raisins in the same ghee and keep it aside.

For Marinating Chicken:

• Chicken 1 kg
• Curd 1/2 cup
• Corriander 1/4 bunch
• Mint leaves 1/4 bunch
• Crushed ginger 1 big piece
• Crushed garlic 1 pod
• Green chilly 4 to 5
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Crushed pepper 1/2 Tsp
• Chilly pdr 1/2 Tsp

Marinate the chicken pieces with finelly chopped mint and coriander leaves. Add the crushed ginger, garlic and sliced chilly along with turmeric pdr, chilly pdr and crushed pepper. Finally add the curd and mix well. Keep it aside for 2 hrs.

For Curry:

• Onion 6 to 7 med
• Tomato 3 to 5 med
• Green chilly 2 to 3
• Mint leaves 1/4 bunch
• Coriander leaves 1/4 bunch
• Ginger garlic paste 2 to 3 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Chilly pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Coriander pdr 1 Tsp
• Garam masala 2 Tsp
• Crushed pepper 1 Tsp
• Cashew paste 30 g
• Oil or ghee

Grind together coriander and mint leaves into a paste and keep it aside. Heat oil or ghee in a pan and add ginger garlic paste and sliced onion. Stir it till it turns light brown. Then add the turmeric pdr, chilly pdr, coriander pdr, crushed pepper corns and garam masala. Cook it well. Pour the above prepared coriander mint paste into the masala and stir it well. Now add the tomatoes and green chilly. Add the marinated chicken and mix well. When the chicken is half done, add the cashew paste. Add rqd amount of salt into it and cook well.

For Layering:

Add fried onion, coriander leaves and mint leaves on the top of chicken. Then add the rice and spread it with a spoon. Sprinkle little rose water and add the fried nuts, raisins and onion. Repeat the same process. Arrange the top most layer with rice and garnish it with fried nuts, raisins, onion and rose water. Cover it well and cook it or bake it for 5 to 10 mins.

Onion Chicken

Ingredients:

• Chicken 1 kg
• Onion 2 big
• Tomato 2 med
• Dry chilly 2 to 3
• Ginger paste 1/2 Tsp
• Garlic paste 1/2 T
• Coriander pdr 2 Tsp
• Chilly pdr 1 1/2 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1/2 Tsp
• Garam masala 1/2 Tsp
• Mustard seeds
• Curry leaves
• Water
• Salt
• Oil

Clean and cut the chicken into medium pieces. Grind together tomato and onion into a paste and keep it aside. Remove the seeds from the dry chilly and boil it in water for few mins and then grind it well. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds. When it splutters, add the dry chilly paste and roast it well. Add the curry leaves, crushed ginger and garlic. Saute and pour the onion paste into this. Mix it for few min and add the coriander pdr, turmeric pdr, chilly pdr, garam masala pdr and salt. Reduce the heat and cook it till the raw smell goes. Add the chicken pieces and rqd amount of water. Cook it in med flame.

Spicy Chicken Fry

Ingredients:

• Chicken 1
• Cumin seeds 1/4 Tsp
• Fennel seeds 1 Tsp
• Turmeric pdr 1 Tsp
• Pepper pdr 1 Tsp
• Vinegar 1/2 Tsp
• Bread crumbs
• Maida 2 cups
• Egg 2

Clean and cut the chicken into medium pieces. Beat the eggs and keep it aside. Ground together cumin seeds to vinegar and add salt to it. Marinate chicken with this paste and keep it aside. After half an hour, roll marinated chicken pieces in maida and then dip it in beaten egg and roll it in bread crumbs. Fry it well.