Chicken Sukka with Bafat Powder - Nivea

Recipe by Nivea Dias Pereira



















Ingredients:
700 gms chicken
salt to taste
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp ghee
5-6 cloves
1" cinnamon
2-3 cardamom pods *(Optional)
12-13 curry leaves 
1 1/2" ginger (finely chopped)
3 green chillies (lengthwise slits)
10 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
2 medium onions (thinly sliced)
1 large tomato / 1 tbsp tomato paste
1/2 coconut (grated)
4-5 tsp bafat powder (adjust to taste)
handful coriander leaves (chopped)

Directions:
  1. Wash and cut chicken. 
  2. Add salt, turmeric, and ginger garlic paste and marinate for 15 minutes.

  3. Heat a large deep pan on medium flame. 
  4. Add ghee, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, curry leaves, green chilies, garlic, ginger in a gap of 30 seconds each.
  5. Then add onions and fry until they turn golden brown.
  6. Add tomato and fry well.  
  7. Add marinated chicken and salt to taste along with one cup of water and let it boil.

  8. Simultaneously, fry the grated coconut in a pan and keep aside.

  9. After 20 minutes, add the fried coconut, bafat/chilli powder and mix well at medium flame. Cook covered on low flame for five more minutes.
  10. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
  11. ENJOY!