Lemongrass chilli chicken Indian style

Lemongrass chilli chicken Indian style

Chicken cooked with lemon grass, other spices and coconut milk. Cooking  time is 20-25 minutes and serving for 4.

Ingredients

	Chicken,Cut into 12 pieces on the bone (3 from each leg and 3 from each breast)		750 grams
	Lemon grass		2 inches
	Garlic		5-6 cloves
	Ginger		1 inch piece
	Onions		15-20 small
	Green chillies		4
	Salt		to taste
	Turmeric powder		1/4 teaspoon
	Lemon juice		1 tablespoon
	Fish sauce		1 teaspoon
	Tamarind pulp		2 tablespoons
	Coconut milk		1 cup
	Oil		3 tablespoons

Method

Put together ginger, lemon grass, garlic, small onions, green chillies, turmeric powder, lemon juice, fish sauce, tamarind pulp and ½ cup coconut milk, salt to a fine paste.

Transfer the paste into a bowl, add chicken pieces. Rinse the mixer jar with remaining ½ cup coconut milk and pour over the chicken. Let it marinate for at least 12-15 hours in a refrigerator.

Heat up oil in a thick bottomed non stick pan and lay the chicken pieces in single layer on it. Grill on high heat, till the underside turns in reddish brown. Then turnover chicken pieces and cook the other side similarly.

Now reduce heat and drizzle some of the remaining marinate over the chicken pieces after a while again turnover and drizzle the remaining marinate. Then cover and cook, turn sides, till the chicken is fully cooked. Now serve hot.