Chettinad Recipes

Ingredients
broiler chkken, cut into medium sized pieces – 1 kg.
jeera or basmati rice – 1/2 kg.
3/4 cup refined oil
Whole spices: 1 stick cinnamon,
2 cardamoms,
2 cloves.
medium sized onion. sliced – 2
garlic ginger paste – 1 tbs.
1 small bunch coriander leaves, chopped
10 mint leaves, chopped
chilli powder – 2 tsp.
turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp.
2 green chillies. slit
1/2 large lime
salt – to cook chicken – 2 1/2 tsp.
salt – to cook rice -1 tbs. -
3/4 cup water

Method:
1. Heat the oil in a pressure cooker. Add whole
spices, then the sliced onions, fry lightly for a minute.
2. Add garlic ginger paste, fry for 1 minute.
3. Add chopped coriander and mint leaves, fry for
a minute.
4. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, slit green
chillies and lime juice. Stir and fry for 1 minute.
5. Add chicken, 2 1/2 tsp. salt and 3/4 cup of water. Stir well, close the cooker and cook chicken fur;) minutes.
6. In the meanwhile, cook rice as ordinary rice, \vlth 1 tbs. salt. When 3/4 cooked, strain the rice.
To assemble the Pallav:
1. Put one layer of rice, then one layer of chicken and curry. Repeat this.
2. Keep on high flame for 3 minutes & on low
name for 15 to 20 minutes till rice IS done.

Ingredients
jeera sambar – 1/2 kg
rice cooked vvith – 1 tbs.
salt – 1 kg.
broiler chicken, with skin cut into medium sized pieces
Masalas ground to a paste:
large stick cinnamon -1
cardamoms – 2
doves – 2
medium sized onions – 2 together
green chillies – 10 ground
ginger -1 1/2 inch to a
medium sized pods of garlic – 2 paste
medium sized bunch -1
coriander leaves
mint leaves – 5 stalks
coconut -1/4
turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
cup water – 3/4
salt – 2 tsp.
lime – 1
small bunch mint leaves, chopped – 1

Method:
1. Heat 1/2 cup oil in a pressure cooker. Add all ground masalas, fry for 3 minutes, stirring well.
2. Add turmeric powder, raw chicken pieces, 3/4 cup water and 2 tsp. salt. Close the cooker and cook for 4 minutes.
3. In the meantime, cook jeera rice, as usual as white rice, with 1 tbs. salt. When almost cooked, strain the rice.
4. Put the rice into the pressure cooker and mix it into the chicken curry.
5. Squeeze lime juice and add a little more salt, if required.
6. Close lid and put on slow flame for 10 minutes.
7. Garnish with chopped mint leaves.

Ingredients
jeera sambar rice – 1/2 kg
cooked as usual till just done with – 1 tbs. salt.
When rice is strained smear – 1 tbs.
oil and keep aside to cool.

Vegetables
fresh peas – 50 gms
beans chopped – 50 gms
carrots chopped – 50 gms
1 medium sized capsicum chopped
cooked with – 1/4 tsp
salt – 3 tbs water
oil -1/2 cup
onion, chopped – 1 medium sized
garlic ginger paste – 1 tsp
soya sauce – 1 I/2 tsp
chilli sauce – 1 tsp
white or black pepper powder – 1 tsp
tomato sauce – 1 tsp
salt – 2 tsp
stalks of spring onion – 8
shredded chicken – 1/2 cup of cooked,
ajinomoto – 2 pinches

Method
1. Cook vegetables, that is, peas, beans, carrots, adding capsicum last. Add 1/4 tsp. salt & 3 tbs. Water. Keep cooked vegetables aside.
2. Heat a large kadai with oil. Add chopped onions, garlic ginger paste, fry for 2 minutes lightly.
3. Add the cooked vegetables, stir well. Add soya
sauce, chilli sauce, tomato sauce and stir well.
4. Add the cooked rice ahd stir well till it is mixed well.
5. Sprinkle 2 tsp. salt. Stir well & add chopped spring onions, shredded chicken and ajinomoto. Toss well for 1 minute and serve hot.
Goes well with chilli sauce.