Serves: 8, Preparation time: Marination time + 15 minutes
Ingredients:
For Marination-
1 kg boneless chicken cut into small pieces
2 onion ground to paste
1 1/2 inch ginger ground to paste
1/2 cup hung curd
6-7 green chillies ground to paste
2 tsp black pepper powder
2 tsp green chilly sauce
2 tsp soya sauce
2 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp corn flour
1/2 cup gram flour (besan) or white flour (maida)
3 tbsp refined oil
salt to taste
a pinch of orange color
Garnishing-
1 lemon
1 tsp chat masala powder
Method:
Wash the chicken in running water properly. Drain water and place the chicken in a big bowl. Add all the ingredients mentioned above for the marination and mix thoroughly, cover with a lid. Keep the chicken in refrigerator for 4-5 hours. Once the chicken is marinated, heat oil in a deep frying pan, keeping the flame on medium fry chicken pieces till its color changes to golden brown. Do not fry too many pieces together, fry them in batches. Place the fried chicken on tissue so that it soaks the excess oil. Sprinkle chat masala and lemon juice as per taste. Serve the chicken pakoras with mint or dhaniya chutney.