Chicken Fry / Kozhi Varuval ( Mom’s Style)

It’s one of my favorite dishes. My mom used to prepare this fry with extraordinary taste. When they prepared this dish I used to have with hot steamed rice. I had this varuval masala mixed with rice. No need to wait for any gravy or kuzhambu…

It’s a simply superb and great dish. The roasted ingredients will give nice aroma and great taste. I and my sister addicted this chicken varuval. This goes well with steamed rice / variety rice/ chapatti / naan/ parota/ dosa/ idly…

    Ingredients

Chicken – ½ kg

Small Chopped Onions – 2 cup

Chopped Tomato – 1 cup

Ginger garlic Paste – 1 tsp

Chopped Coriander – ¼ cup

Chilli Powder – 1 tsp

Coriander Powder – 2 tsp

Turmeric Powder – ½ tsp

Salt to taste

Oil – 2 tsp

To Grind

Fennel Seeds – 1 tsp

Cumin Seeds – 1 tsp

Garlic – 4 pods

Black Pepper Seeds – 1 tsp

Grated Coconut – ¼ cup

To Temper

Fennel Seeds – ¼ tsp

Cinnamon – 2

Cardamom – 1

Bay leaf - 1

Curry leaves - few

Method

Clean and wash the chicken and cut into small pieces. Then take all the ingredients to get ready for cooking.

In a pan, fry fennel seeds, cumin seeds, garlic, pepper seeds for 1 min on a medium flame and switch off.

Let it cool down and grind it with grated coconut. Keep it aside in a bowl. In a kadai, heat oil then add all the ingredients mentioned below to temper.

Then add curry leaves, chopped onions and fry till it becomes mushy. Now add the chicken pieces, ginger garlic paste, and salt then fry for 5 min.

Once the chicken has changed in color, then add chopped tomatoes and close the lid then keep cook for about 3 to 5 minutes.

Once it done, add chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and 1 cup of water then keep cook for another 10 minutes.

Then add grinded masala and keep cook for about 10 min on a low flame. Sprinkle oil when it is really necessary.

Roast well until the chicken curry becomes soft and dry. Add the chopped coriander leaves and mix it well.

Wow! The yummy and spicy chicken fry is ready to serve…