Chicken majestic
Chicken Majestic is a delicious starter recipe popular in Hyderabad. It is another Indo-Chinese recipe very close to chicken Manchurian yet completely different.
Servings 2 people
Ingredients
1st marinade
- 250 g boneless chicken fillets
- 1 cup buttermilk
- salt as needed
2nd marinade
- 1 small egg
- ½ tsp pepper
- ⅛ tsp ginger powder
- ⅛ tsp garlic powder
- salt as needed
- 1 tsp corn flour
Other ingredients
- 1 tbsp oil
- 2 tbsp curd/yogurt
- 2 tsps soy sauce
- 5 cloves garlic
- 2 green chillies
- few curry leaves
- a few coriander leaves
- a few mint leaves
- 1 tsp coriander powder
- 1 tsp Kashmiri chilli powder
- ½ tsp cumin powder
- ½ tsp garam masala powder
- a pinch of turmeric powder
- salt as needed
- oil for deep frying
For garnishing
- coriander leaves
- lemon wedges
Instructions
- Wash the chicken, chop it into longitudinal strips and marinate it in buttermilk and salt solution for 20 minutes
- After 20 minutes, remove it from the marinade, squeeze as much water as possible from it and marinate with the ingredients given in the 2nd marinade for another 20 minutes.
- Heat up oil and deep fry the chicken pieces in batches and drain onto a kitchen towel.
- In a pan heat up 1 tbsp of oil, and add the finely chopped garlic, green chillies, curry leaves, coriander, and mint leaves.
- Add all the powders, saute for a few seconds and add the yogurt/curd. Give it a quick mix and add the soya sauce and salt as needed.
- Simmer the flame and add the chicken pieces. Toss so that the masala gets coated evenly on all the chicken pieces.
- Turn off the stove once it dries up completely. Serve, garnished with lemon slices and chopped coriander leaves.