Yummy Pepper Chicken

Ingredients:

1 chicken - 1.5kg (cut into medium size parts)

1 large onion, sliced

Pound : 6 pips garlic

: 1 inch ginger

1-1.5 tbsp black pepper powder

1-1.5 tbsp garam masala

Mix 1 tsp sugar with: 1.5 tbsp black thick soy sauce

: 1.5 tbsp light soy sauce

1 inch cinnamon

3 cardamons

4 cloves

2 star anis

2 stalks curry leaves (use only the leaves)

salt to taste

Method:

1. Marinate chicken with sugar- sauce mixture, pepper and garam masala for 1/2 hr.

2. Heat oil in wok and when hot fry dry spices till crackling.

3. Add slices onions and garlic-ginger paste.

4. When fragrant add marinated chicken.

5. Cook till tender and dry.

6. Add curry leaves and continue to cook.

7. Optionally you can also add 1 tbsp of roasted coconut (pounded coarsely) and fried onions.

8. Taste for salt.

9. Leave to stand in wok for 1/2 hr to infuse all the flavours before dishing out.

10. Best eaten with rice, rasam and vegetable especially on a chilly, raining day.