Chicken varattiyathu is a fry recipe where we uses no oil. Here we uses little coconut milk while cooking, oil from coconut milk will be enough for frying this recipe. It is a simple recipe with mostly available ingredients in our home.
- Chicken: 1( medium)
- Garlic: 1 bulb
- Chilly powder: 1&1/2 tsp
- Pepper : 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
- Garam masala powder: 1 tsp
- Shallots: 10
- Thick coconut milk: 1/2 cup
- Salt: to taste
- Curry leaves: 2 strings
- Grind garlic, shallots,pepper, chilly powder, turmeric and garam masala powder together to get a smooth paste.
- Marinate chicken pieces with this paste, add salt and thick coconut milk and mix well.
- Cook these chicken pieces in low flame with closed lid till chicken pieces cooks well.
- Now open the lid and dries up the gravy.
- Now when water content dries up, oil from coconut milk comes out.
- Fry the chicken pieces in that oil in low flame by stirring in intervals.
- Turn off the flame.
