GREEN CKICKEN

GREEN CHICKEN:

INGREDIENTS:

CHICKEN - ½ kg,

Fresh coriander leaves – 1 cup – finely chopped,

Fresh mint leaves – ½ cup – finely chopped,

Green chili – 8 – chopped,

Lemon - 1- juice,

Salt as per taste

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp,

Oil – 3 tsp,

METHOD:

Wash and clean the chicken,

Grind Coriander leaves, mint leaves, green chili together in a blender to make a coarse paste, remember the paste should be coarse not smooth,

Add this green paste to the cleaned chicken and add ginger garlic paste along with salt to it,

Now add the lemon juice of one lime and mix everything well

Marinate this for an hour or half n hour,

Heat oil in a kadai and when the oil is heated add this chicken to it and fry till it leaves its raw smell of mint and coriander leaves,

Now add a cup of water and cook with covered lid,

Cook till the chicken is completely done,

Remove the green gravy into a bowl, you can have this gravy with white rice,

And now fry the chicken till they turn a bit of golden brown, but see that they remain juicy,

Serve as a snack, side dish or with roti, phulka and biryanis, garnished with onion rings and chopped coriander.

This recipe I collected from my sis-in-law Sailaja, who is a good cook, and I love making it most of the time, since there is again the green tinge in it which I like the most.