Black Pepper Chicken
A flavorful, simple and easy black pepper chicken recipe prepared using few basic ingredients and coarsely grounded black peppercorns which turned out amazingly delicious.
Equipment
- frying pan
Ingredients
- 500 grams chicken
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
- 3 tablespoon black peppercorns coarsely ground
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds ground (or 1 teaspoon coriander powder)
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 2 medium onion finely chopped
- 1 medium tomato finely chopped
- 2 nos dry red chilly broken
- salt to taste
- water as required
Instructions
- Heat oil in a pan, add the dry red chillies and ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute.
- Add the curry leaves, finely chopped onions and saute for about 2 minutes.
- Add salt to taste, chopped tomatoes and saute till tomatoes turns soft and mushy.
- Add turmeric powder, grounded coriander, grounded black peppercorns and saute for a minute.
- Add the chicken, mix well, cover the pan and cook on low-medium heat for about 5-10 minutes.
- Add very little water if required and continue to cook for another 10-15 mins or till the chicken is cooked completely.
- Turn off the heat, sprinkle few cracked peppercorns and serve.
Video
Notes
- For best and authentic taste use freshly ground pepper.
- It's a pepper chicken recipe so do not compromise on the amount of pepper but you can adjust as per heat preference.
- Use bone in chicken for best result.
- I used freshly ground coriander seeds. You may use store bought coriander powder.