Garlic Chicken Dry

This Garlic chicken recipe makes a perfect starter or a side dish to a lunch meals. My new found trick to tenderize the chicken which i learn from my kitchen that works well for this recipe... I soaked the chicken overnight with minced garlic, spice powders along with lemon juice. Which makes me suprise at this soft, tender and tasty chicken.  

This is not any restaurant style chicken dish but it taste is simply awesome and is ideal for a home preparation. Garlic chicken is done within 25 mins... The minced garlic which is sauteed in butter gives excellant taste to you buds.. There are many techniques and variation of the basic recipe for garlic chicken. But i just want it simple and adaptable to my taste.....

This dish became latest flavourable to your family members.. So I hope you will give a try and let me know how it turns out for you...

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 25 mins

Marination time : 4 hours or overnight

Serve - 4 to 5

Recipe category - Sidedish

INGREDINTS :

Butter - 25 gms

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tspn

Garlic cloves - 7 (minced)

Onion - 2 small (chopped)

Green chilli - 4 (sliced)

Tomato - 1 (chopped)

Lemon - 1/2 

Salt - as needed

Coriander, mint, curry leaves - few 

FOR MARINATION :

Chicken - 1/2 kg (boneless)

Garlic cloves - 20 (minced)

Chilli powder - 2 tbspn

Coriander powder - 1/2 tspn

Garam masala powder - 1 tspn

Red food colour - 1 pinch

Lemon - 1/2 

Salt - 2 tspn

METHOD :

• Start by marinated the chicken first, take minced garlic, spice powder, lemon juice salt, and give a mix.
• Now add in chicken and red food colour and mix evenly. It marinate for 4 hours.
• Heat a kadai with butter, let it melts. Add in fennel seeds, minced garlic saute it well in the butter for a min. 
• Add in onion and chillies saute it well along with garlic.
• Then add in chopped tomato and little bit of salt, saut well till it mushy.
• Place the marinated chicken in a kadai, just give a mix and cover it with lid for 10 mins.
• When the chicken is half cooked add in coriander, mint curry leaves and mix well.
• Cook the chicken became soft and tender.
• Then squeeze the lemon to the chicken and mix evely... 
• Now it's ready to serve with rice or a starter..

PICTORIAL :

Take your ingredients

Take minced garlic in a mixing bowl

All spices powder and salt

Lemon juice

Mix evenly

Add in chicken

Mix well

Now add in food colour

Done, marinate it for 4 hours...

Now take your ingredients

Heat a pan with butter

Add in feenal seeds

Add in minced garlic

Toss till it became light brown

Add in onion and chilli

Toss well

Now add chopped tomato

Add in salt

Saute it well, till it mushy

Add in marinate chicken

Give a mix

Cover it with lid for 10 mins

After 10 mins the chicken is half cooked

Add in coriander, mint, curry leaves

Mix eveny and leave it for 7 mins

Squeeze some lemon juice

Mix evenly

Cook till the chicken became tender and soft

Now it's done

Serve it hot

Have it... ha..ha..ha...