Andhra Chicken Fry

Andhra Chicken Fry is one of the simple and delicious recipe from South India. Andhra Chicken Fry can be treated as one of the non vegetarian snack during winter season or can be best suited with alcoholic drinks. It is one of the easy to make spicy chicken recipe which can be prepared by even a person with no knowledge of cooking.

Ingredients:

Chicken (cleaned) – 500gms

Andhra Chicken Fry

Coconut (Dry/Fresh) – 1 small piece

Ginger(optiona) – 2 inch piece

Garlic – 1 full (medium size)

Onion – 2 (medium size)

Tomato – 1

Dhaniya (coriander) powder- 1/4 tsp

Chilly powder- 1 tsp

Pepper Powder- 1 tsp

Coriander Leaves – 1/2 cup (chopped)

Curry Leaves – 10

Turmeric – 1/2 tsp

Lemon – half

Jeera- a little

Salt for taste

Oil – 200 gms

Method:

• Cut chicken into medium size pieces (not be very big pieces).
• Wash and squeeze water.
• Take a thick bottom container. Add salt, turmeric and jeera to the chicken pieces, mix it and keep it on medium flame and place a lid.
• Once water oozes out, increase the flame.
• Boil until water evaporates or chicken is cooked.
• Keep watching so that bottom does not get burnt.
• Take thick bottom kadai (pan) and pour 2 spoons of oil and heat.
• Add ginger and garlic paste and fry for a while then put jeera, few pieces of onion, curry leaves. Fry until golden brown color.
• Add few pieces of tomato and fry until tomato is mashed.
• Add chicken pieces, coriander powder, chilly powder, coconut powder and fry for 15 minutes (if watery, fry until water evaporates).
• Once the it is dry, add lemon juice and pepper and fry it for 5 minutes.
• Kodi Fry is ready. Decorate with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Nutritional  Facts:

• High in proteins, vitamins, minerals, amino acids and low in fat and cholesterol, make chicken a major component of a healthy diet.
• It is packed with various vitamins, minerals and all nine essential amino acids.
• This red meat provides you with 40 percent of the daily requirement of selenium.
• When it comes to nutrition part, it has iron and zinc content in its dark meat.
• It also contains significant amounts of phosphorous and potassium