Aayi’s Recipes Konkan/Konkani food blog, Indian culinary treasures

In India, we were frequent visitors to Nandini restaurant. This is the place where we became huge fans of Andhra food. We loved the normal vegetarian thali, which according to us, was a comfort food. The other thing we absolutely loved there was their chicken dishes. Since hubby is not a great fan of chicken with bones, we would always pick up some boneless dish. After a while, our staple chicken order was for an extremely flavorful pepper chicken. It used to be very hot and would have a strong curry leaves flavor to it.

Now after two years in US, I have forgotten how it is supposed to look, but the taste still lingers on my tongue. Every time I buy chicken, hubby’s request comes for this dish. So this time, I thought of recreating this dish. Since I wanted a strong pepper and curry leaves flavor to it, I kept it very simple. It came out to be absolutely delicious. Try this at least once to know what I mean.If you have Kashmiri red chili powder in hand, use it for a bright color. Increase the amount of heat if you can tolerate more. It tastes great when savored with lemon juice sprinkled on it.

Ingredients:
1/4 kg boneless chicken
A pinch turmeric
1 tbl spn thick yogurt
1 tea spn ginger paste
1 tea spn garlic paste
1/2 tea spn chili powder
1 tea spn pepper powder
Oil
15-20 curry leaves
Salt

Method:
Apply ginger-garlic paste, chili powder, 1/2 tea spn pepper powder, salt, yogurt to chicken and leave it aside for about 2-3hrs.
Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is steaming hot, add the marinated chicken. Cook for 5-6mins from both sides (do not add any extra water). When the chicken is almost half done, add 1/2 tea spn pepper powder, curry leaves (cut into two), cover and cook till chicken is completely done.Serve hot with lemon wedges.

Serves : 2
Preparation time : 15mins