Chickey Xacuti

 A great chicken dish to add on a dinner party menu, serve with any Indian bread or this also goes extremely well with some cooked rice. Cook this easy and simple recipe at homee on festive and celebratory occasions for friends and family.

Ingredients:
1 table spoon mustard seeds
2 table spoon poppy seeds
1/4 table spoon fenugreek seeds
1/2 table spoon cumin seeds
1 nutmeg mace
2 Cinnamon
3 petals kalpasi
2 Small pieces of nutmeg
4 Elaichi
20 Cloves
1 table spoon black pepper
2 table spoon Turmeric
2 slices of Coriander
25 Musuri Chillies
6 Big onions
1 Coconut
1/2 Lime
1 Ginger
1 garlic
2 Maggie cubes
1 kg chicken

How to Make Chicken Xacuti

• 1.Add salt and turmeric powder to curry-cut chicken.
• 2.Add paste 1 of ginger, garlic, coriander, chillies and marinate for half an hour.
• 3.To make paste 2, heat oil in pan and saute sliced onions, green chillies, ginger, garlic for 3 minutes.
• 4.Add 1 grated coconut and saute for another 5-7 minutes. Once onions are crispy, keep aside.
• 5.To make paste 3, on a dry pan separately roast cinnamon, cardamom, aniseed, black pepper corn, poppy seeds, coriander seeds, Kashmiri red chillies, star anise, maize flower, nutmeg, and turmeric.
• 6.Make Xacuti masala by grinding together paste 2 and 3.
• 7.For the final preparation, heat oil in pan and add onions and green chillies.
• 8.After one minute add the marinated chicken pieces.
• 9.After two minutes add Xacuti masala and water. Cook for 10 minutes.
• 10.Serve hot with bread or rice.