Jeera Chicken

Added on Tue Jul 10 2007

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The Story Behind The Recipe

a typical Indian dish my mother in-law use to make back at home in Kenya (My mother is on the left and my mother in law is on the right) Read More

" pieces of chicken cooked in yogurt and whole cumin-goes well as a starter or a main course "

This recipe belongs to 'Taste of India'

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The Basics

Dish: Main Course
cuisine: Indian
Serves: 6
Prep Time: 0hrs 15 mins
Cooking Time: 0hrs 45 mins

Ingredients

½ tsp turmeric powder
4tbs cooking oil
¾ tin plain yogurt
1½ tsp cumin-corriander powder
20 chicken wings
3 medium onions
3-4 tbs cumin seeds
2 x 2inch sticks cinamon sticks
6 corns whole black pepper
3 cloves
2 green chillies
2tsp ginger-crushed
6 cloves crushed garlic
to taste salt
½ tsp garam masala powder

Method

1. chop the onions into really small pieces
2. cut the green chillies into half
3. pour oil in a large non-stick pan and warm
4. add the cumin seeds, cinamon and cloves and let it splutter (crackle)
5 add the chopped onions and let it cook until the onions are dark brown[not just transparent]
6. now add the chicken pieces and increase the heat and stirfry until the chicken turns brown
7. add the crushed garlic and ginger and stir fry for a couple more mins
8. add salt, turmeric, corriander-cumin powder.
9.continue stirring and finally reduce the heat onto med and add the yogurt.
10. cover the pan and let it cook for atleast 30-40 min until the chicken is cooked.