Chicken cooked with pepper and cumin seeds, good for digestion and also the pepper in this gravy clears the throat. One of my all time favourite recipe.

Pepper chicken / Kozhi Milagu

Ingredients:

• Chicken – ½ Kg
• Tomato – 2 nos
• Big onion – 2 nos
• Peppercorns – 2 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – 2 tbsp
• Anise/Fennel seeds – 2 tsp
• Garlic – 6 Cloves
• Ginger – ½ inch
• Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Curry leaves – a strand

Preparation:

• Finely chop onions and chop tomatoes.
• Dry roast and grind cumin seeds, peppercorns and anise seeds.
• Grind ginger-garlic to smooth paste.
• Heat oil in kadai. Put mustard, blackgram and curry leaves.
• Put ginger-garlic paste and fry till the smell goes off.
• Put onions and fry them till they turn golden brown.
• Put chicken, turmeric powder and salt. Fry till they turn golden brown.
• Put the ground powder and fry for abt 10 mins.
• Now pour ½ cup of water and then tomatoes.
• Cover with the lid till the chicken is cooked.
• Remove the lid and put in sim till the oil separates and floats on the top.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with rice and rasam, sambhar rice, curd rice and tomato rice.