Chettinadu Chicken gravy / Chicken masala

We are preparing many dishes using Chicken. This time, i tried a delicious spicy chicken gravy in Chettinadu style. When guests come to my house, I prepare this gravy as side dish for Biriyani and also tiffin items like idly, dosa, chappathy, poori.. Everybody liked this gravy and my husband says to prepare every time. I normally prepare chicken curry with only masala powders. In this style, we have to saute some ingredients to grind and also add masala powders. If we want ore gravy, we can add coconut paste or coconut milk. 

For making this style gravy, i used tempering in final stage. It is very tasty and very simple to prepare. I used sambar onion to ground masala. Sambar onion gives the gravy nice aroma and wonderful taste. Try this simple gravy recipe and get rich taste of Chettinadu chicken.

Basic information :

Preparation time	:	15 Mins
Cooking time	:	15 Mins
Serve for	:	3 Persons

Ingredients :

For Grind	:
Sambar onion	:	1/4 Kg
Ginger	:	2 Tsp
Garlic	:	2 Tsp
Fennel	:	1 Tsp
Pepper	:	1 Tsp
Cumin seeds	:	1 Tsp
Curry leaves	:	1 Tsp
For gravy	:
Chicken	:	1/2 Kg
Turmeric powder	:	1/4 Tsp
Chilly powder	:	1 Tsp
Coriander powder	:	2 Tsp
Salt	:	As needed
For tempering	:
Oil	:	2 Tsp
Cinnamon	:	2 Nos
Cloves	:	2 Nos
Curry leaves	:	1 Tsp

Method :

Heat oil in a pan Add cumin seeds, fennel seeds, pepper. After the seeds pop, add chopped sambar onion, curry leaves and saute till onion becomes golden brown,

After that add chopped ginger, garlic and switch off the flame. No need to fry more ginger and garlic. In that heat itself it will fry.

Grind the saute ingredients after getting cool.

Wash the chicken pieces, add ground masala, all the masala powders and salt.

 Add little water and allow it to cook. No need to add more water. 

After the chicken cooked and raw smell goes, we can make tempering. Heat oil in a pan, add cinnamon, cloves, curry leaves and add it to the gravy.

Hmmm,... Delicious Chittinadu style chicken gravy is ready to serve with rich  aroma.

Have a try this yummy gravy recipe and please share your priceless comments...