Pepper Chicken Chettinad

Ingredients:

1. Chicken - ½ Kg
2. Mustard - as required
3. Cumin seeds - as required
4. Onion - Finely chopped, 1 cup
5. Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
6. Turmeric powder - a pinch
7. Curry leaves - as required
8. Green chillies - finely chopped
9. Tomato - ½ cup
10. Chilli powder - 1 tbsp
11. Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
12. Cumin powder - ½ tsp
13. Pepper - finely grounded, 1tbsp
14. Coriander leaves - as required

Method:

Add oil to a hot wok and add mustard and cumin seeds. Let it splutter. Then, add onions and fry till translucent. Add green chillies and turmeric. Add gg paste. Once it is cooked, add tomatoes, chilli powder and coriander powder, and cook till it mixes with the onion and forms a thick sauce. Then, add cumin powder and cook for some more time. Add chicken pieces to this think sauce amd mix it well, and cook under meduim flame for 30 minutes, stirring ocassionally. Finally when the chicken is almost done, add pepper powder according to your taste and add curry leaves and mix it thoroughly.

This can be served hot with rice, phulkas or rotis.