Chicken Gravy and Chops:

  This chicken gravy is very spicy and tasty. The taste will be perfect if we use the whole chicken with bone and skin. This process does not require any marinating. Quick and easy method. Both gravy and chops can be prepared with the same masalas and in less time. We used to say it as Chicken Varutha Curry.

 

Kadai Chicken

Kadai chicken is a very spicy dish, but rich in taste because of the freshness of ginger, garlic and capsicum’s flavor and ofcourse the red chillies used. This is very easy to prepare and in less time. Can be made dry or with gravy. My recipe here is with less gravy, can be served with Naan /Roti.

Chilli Chicken Gravy:

                    Chilli chicken / chicken Manchurian is very common in fast foods (road side) and also in most hotels .There are different variety in preparing chilli chicken.

Deep frying the chicken  

Pressure cooking the chicken

Each method has different taste.In the deep fry method the chicken pieces will be hot and sweet.And it’s a good method for chilli chicken dry.But for gravy, the chicken pieces will leave oil and become hard when cooking again.So I use to pressure cook them for gravy .

   

Quesadilla:

Chicken quesadilla recipe:

Ingredients:

Mexican four cheese packet (Cheddar,Monterey,Jack,and Asadero cheese)

1 piece Chicken breast boneless ( Cut into medium pieces)

1 /4 cup Mushroom diced

1 /4 cup Capsicum diced

Spring Onion

Salt

Pepper (powdered)

Lemon juice

Readymade Tortillas

Butter                      
                                                                 

Preparation:

        In a nonstick pan add a tsp of oil and fry the chicken pieces by adding salt and pepper. Once the water from chicken comes out & evaporates and also chicken color changes to white, cook the chicken covered with few drops of lemon juice for about 5 mins in medium flame .

      

                                   

Then add the diced mushroom and capsicum (add other veggies also… our favorite is this) and again cook covered for 3 mins.

                                                          

Now the stuffing is ready. Take the readymade tortillas and toss it lightly on both sides in the hot griddle (just a sec) and keep it ready by applying butter on one side of the tortilla.(after tossing,apply butter)

In the griddle, keep the buttered side of the tortilla down and in a few secs ,(2-3 secs) the top layer rises lightly. Now sprinkle the cheese over and add a handful of stuffing and again a few sprinkles of cheese.

                             

Now place another buttered tortilla(buttered side facing up) above the stuffing and flip the quesadilla,and cook for 3 secs. (until u get the same browned layer on bottom as the top)

                                                 

Place the quesadilla in a plate and slice it as u like and do the same process for remaining stuffings.

Serve it with some dippings.. We use to have it with gucamole dip.

                                

Note:

    For vegetarians, instead of chicken add more veggies like jalapenos,tomatoes,red bell pepper etc., and enjoy ur veg quesadilla.

 For Non-veg lovers, less veggies and more chicken or shrimp (cooked, tailed off) can work well.

If u r adding shrimp, add some chilli powder / jalapenos for better taste.

And for cheese we got Cheddar cheese bar and Monterey Jack cheese bar and shredded it home.(Since we used to do quesadilla every week)