Sunday, May 8, 2011

Chicken Cutlet


Ingredients for chicken preparation
  • 300 gm of boneless chicken breast
  • ½ tsp of Kashmiri red chilli powder
  • ¼  tsp turmeric powder
  • ¼ tsp black pepper powder
  • 1 tsp of lemon juice 
  • Salt as per taste
Cut the chicken into small pieces. Wash and clean them and then pat them dry with a kitchen towel. Marinate the chicken pieces with the given ingredients for 2 hours. After 2 hours squeeze the chicken dry (remove as much water as possible).

Other ingredients 
  • 1 large onion finely chopped 
  • 1 tbsp of ginger finely chopped.
  • 1 tbsp of garlic finely chopped
  • 2 green chillies finely choped
  • ½  cup of chopped coriander leaves
  • 1 tbsp of chopped mint leaves
  • ½ tsp of coriander powder
  • 1 tsp of meat masala (optional)
  • 1 tsp of cooking oil
  • Salt as per need
  • 1 large potate boiled and drained and mashed (add salt to this as needed)
  • 1 egg broken into a bowl and beat lightly (add a bit of salt too)
  • 2 cups of bread crumbs
  • Oil for deep frying the cutlets
Method
  • Take a pan and heat 1 tbsp of oil.
  • Add the chopped onions, ginger, garlic and green chilly. Sauté the onions till they turn translucent.
  • Add the coriander powder and the meat masala and sauté the ingredients for a couple of more minutes. Take the ingredients off the pan and cool it.
  • Take the chopping attachment of a mixer grinder and add the chicken pieces, cooked onion mixture, mint leaves, coriander leaves and mince everything finely.
  • Take the mixture into a bowl and add the mashed potato.
  • Knead the whole mixture after adding a little more of spices (chilly powder, coriander powder & meat masala) if needed.
  • Make lemon sized balls and flatten the balls.
  • Dip them in the egg mixture and coat them with the bread crumbs.
  • Deep fry the cutlets till golden brown.
  • Serve hot with onion salad (will post the recipe of the onion salad later). It can also be served with any other slightly tart and spicy sauce like tartar sauce.



You can actually make different varieties of the cutlet by varying the spices and ingredients according to your taste.

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