Malabar Chicken Fry Masala

A chicken dry curry recipe from Malabar. Marinated chicken is shallow fried in oil first. For the masala, onion, garlic, green chilli, tomatoes and spices are fried in oil. Fried chicken is then added to the masala and slow cooked for a few more minutes. Serve with rice or any Indian bread.
Recipe Courtesy: Aysha's Life Today

Palak / Saag Chicken (Chicken in Spinach Gravy)

Going green on St. Patrick's Day! Yesterday we had chapathi and palak chicken for dinner. I didn't make it with St. Paddy's day in mind; it just happened that way. My son came to the conclusion that he had 'green water' and 'green cupcake' at school, so we are having 'green chicken' for dinner. For the gravy, spinach leaves are immersed in boiling water for a few minutes, then immersed in cold water to retain its color and then pureed in a blender. Marinated chicken is cooked with onion, garlic, ginger, green chilli, tomatoes and other spices and then mixed with the spinach gravy. Kasoori methi and butter or cream could be added towards the end to get the restaurant taste.
Recipe Courtesy: Sangeetha's Kothiyavunu

Penne with Chicken in Cream Cheese Sauce

My son declared that he don't like cream cheese and this is one way I found to make him eat some left over cream cheese. Cream cheese, milk and parmesan cheese formed a great sauce for pasta. Fried chicken pieces, red bell pepper and green olives blended in well with the sauce.
Recipe Courtesy: CookingWithPhilly.ca

Chicken Ularthiyathu (Kerala Style Chicken Stir-fry)

A delicious chicken fry recipe from Kerala. Chicken is cooked and then stir-fried with onion, ginger, garlic, tomato and other freshly roasted spices. Serve with rice or chapathi.
Recipe Courtesy: Sangeetha's Kothiyavunu

Baked Penne with Chicken and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

This was our Valentine's day dinner with creamy strawberry crepe as dessert. The pasta turned out great. To melted butter, garlic, all purpose flour, milk, mushrooms, tomatoes, fried chicken pieces, provolone, parmesan and cooked pasta are added. It is then baked for 25 minutes at 400F. I got the sun-dried tomatoes from a colleague. It was very finely chopped and disappeared into pasta giving it a brown color.
Recipe Courtesy: MarthaStewart.com

Malabar Style Stuffed Chicken / Cornish Hen for Thanksgiving (Kozhi Nirachathu)

 

Hope you all had a great thanksgiving day! I found this twin pack of two small cornish hen at the grocery store and decided to go chicken instead of turkey this time for a Kerala style thanksgiving. Malabar is a coastal region of Southern India which forms the northern part of Kerala. It is in the Calicut district (now Kozhikode) of Malabar that Vasco da Gama once landed in his quest for spices, opening up a new spice trade route to India (rest is history!). It is fascinating to think that the same region was Christopher Columbus' original destination when he accidently discovered the Americas (and rest is history!). Oh yeah, I'm getting addicted to Wikipedia these days. :) Anyways, coming back to Malabar cuisine, the region has its own style of a rich culinary tradition. This stuffed chicken is one of their specialties where chicken is stuffed with hard boiled eggs and roasted onion masala. This was my first attempt and it was indeed a culinary delight.

Recipe Courtesy: My Treasure...My Pleasure

Chicken Mappas (Chicken in Coconut Milk Gravy)

This is a Kerala style chicken curry where chicken is cooked in coconut milk gravy. It could be served as side dish with appam, chappathi or rice.
Recipe Courtesy: Marias Menu

Spicy Chicken Curry

There are numerous ways of making chicken curry. This is a basic spicy version which is very simple and easy to make.
Recipe courtesy: Niya's world

Chicken Puffs

Puffs and cutlets were two of the snacks that me and my brother enjoyed to munch during our childhood. My dad used to buy them from the bakery on his way back from work. My mom never had to worry about refrigeration and reheating because there won't be any left in those brown paper bags! Thanks to Pepperidge Farm puff pastry sheets, I'm now able to do an attempt to make those delicious puffs at home. These pastry sheets could be found in the frozen section of the grocery store. This time I accidently bought pastry 'shells' instead of 'sheets' and had to roll them out and ended up having odd shaped puffs!!! But it tasted delicious...
Recipe Courtesy: Shriya of Spicy Tasty

Chicken Peralan (Chicken Masala)

I absolutely loved this peralan recipe which I got from Suja Sugathan's blog Kitchen Corner-Try It. This is the first time I'm making a chicken dish without coriander powder (of course, store bought garam masala may contain some). Anyways, it tasted delicious. The best part is, my four-year-old picky eater loved it too! Thanks to Suja for the recipe.