Monday 31 October 2011

Sukha Chicken/सुक्खा चिकन ( Chicken without Gravy)

Sukha Chicken
Dry chicken is taken as appetizer as well as well as main course. In main course it goes especially well with Tandoori roti / naan. Being less oily it is easier to digest and tastes very good. My personal preference next to tandoori chicken is sukha chicken. 

Preparations Time: 10 min.
Cooking Time: 40-45 min.
Servings: 4-5 large servings

Ingredients Required To make Sukka Chicken :
    • 1 kg. Chicken dressed, washed, and cut to pieces.
    Chicken for Sukha Chicken

     For Marinade:
    • 50 gm. Ginger-Garlic past.
    Ingredients for marinade
    • 100 gm. Thick Curd.
    • 10 gm. Turmeric powder. 
    • 10 gm. Red Chili powder.
    • 1/4 Tea spoon freshly grated Nutmeg. 
    For Masala/Spice mix:
    • 250 gm. Onion.( finely chopped )
    Finely cut Onions
    • 50 gm. Ginger- garlic paste.
    • 100 gm.(2 medium size ) Tomatoes.( chopped).
    Tomatoes
    •  2 Bay leaves.
    • 3-4 Cloves.
    • 1 Inch piece of Cinnamon.
    Spices for chicken
    •  5-6 Black pepper
    • 1 Black Cardamom
    • Salt to taste.
    • Red chili powder to taste.
    • 1 ml. Cooking Oil if cooking in non-stick wok / 10 ml. if cooking in normal wok
     Direction To Marinate Chicken 
    • Poke the chicken pieces with fork .
    • Mix garlic, ginger paste, curd, turmeric powder, chili powder, nutmeg.
    Ingredients for marinade mixed in a bowl
    • Beat them with a spoon or fork to form nice creamy mixture. 
    Marinade for chicken
    • Rub the mixer nicely on the chicken pieces and coat them with the mixer.
    Marinade mixed with chicken and kept for marinating

    • Cover and leave for 5-6 hrs. ( It can be kept in fridge ).
    Direction To Prepare Sukka Chicken
    • Take a thick bottom wok, put 2 teaspoon of oil in it and heat on gas till smoking hot.
    • Add cinnamon stick, cloves, bay leaves and black cardamom.Cook for 1/2 min.
       
      Spices being cooked till they splutter in 2 teaspoon of Olive oil
    • Add finely chopped onions and cook till transparent.
      Finely cut onions added to oil and spices mixture
    Onions cooked to transparent state

    • Add ginger- garlic paste and cook for 1 min.
    • Add finely chopped tomatoes, and cook till tomatoes turn just tender.
    Onions added after adding ginger-garlic paste

    Tomatoes cooked till tender
    • Add marinated chicken, mix nicely.
    Chicken added to cooked onion, tomato and spices mixture

    Mixed and being cooked on low flame
    • Add salt, red chili powder and mix.
    • Cook on low flame with constant stirring for 5 min. Juices from chicken will come out.
    • Cover and cook on low flame till all liquid dries.

    Covered and being cooked on low flame
    • Cook on low flame with regular stirring and sprinkling of very little water till the chicken becomes tender.
    10 ml. Water sprinkled and being cooked on low flame

    State after 5 min. of cooking (After sprinkling water)
    • Add garam masala and mix.
    • Cover and remove from gas.
    • Keep it aside for 4-5min. so as to allow the flavor of garam masala to seep in the chicken.
    Sukha Chicken
    • Remove the cooked sukha chicken in a serving bowl and garnish with ringlet of onions, tomatoes, sprig of coriander / celery / parsley.
    • Enjoy the sukha chicken with hot Nan, Tandoori roti, Roomali roti.
    Sukha Chicken
     Tips:
    • Cook in non-stick container otherwise oil requirement will become 10-15 ml.
    • Let the liquid of marinade dry completely before sprinkling water first time.
    • Do not add too much water at one go.
    • Cook on low flame. If the heat is increased to high then masala will get burnt.
     Suggested Variations:
    • Cut chicken pieces to bite size and serve it as appetizer.
    • Oregano can be added to the marinade replacing nut meg for a change of flavor.
    • Olive oil can be taken for cooking as it is healthy medium to cook.

    1 comment:


    1. Nice and well written recipe. Chicken tastes good in any form, You can also try and order chicken pickle achar, and various non veg pickles by SITARA at their online store, The India's biggest online store for pickles

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