Chicken Chettinad
• Marinate chicken as per Step 1 and keep aside for 1 to 2 hours.
• Dry roast all ingredients in Step 2 and make it into a fine powder.
• Heat oil in a pan, add bayleaf, kalpasi fry and add onion, green chilli and fry until golden brown.
• Add chopped tomatoes, add the ground masala powder, red chilli powder and salt now and let the masalas cook for a while.
• Add the marinated chicken and saute for a while.
• Pour 1 cup water, cover and let the chicken cook.
• Once chicken is cooked add 2 tbsp of the Roasted cococnut paste to the gravy and let it blend very well.
• Serve hot with Rice or Rotis.