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Patcy N shares a lip-smacking Easter recipe for chicken fry with minimum oil.

Here’s the recipe:   

Ingredients

• 1 kg chicken pieces
• 3 tbsp oil

For the marinade:

• 15 red chillies
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 inch ginger
• 10 garlic cloves
• 10 black peppers
• 5 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick 
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 5 cardamoms
• 1 big onion
• 1 round tamarind (lemon size) Soak it in water. If you don't like tamarind you can use lemon instead.
• Salt to taste

Method

• Grind the marinade ingredients to a paste with tamarind along with the water it is spakes in.
• Apply the paste generously to the chicken and keep it for an hour. You need not refrigerate unless you are marinating for more than an hour.
• Heat a frying pan on high flame and add 3 tbsp oil to shallow fry chicken.
• Reduce the flame (keep it on low) and add the marinated chicken and all the leftover marinade in the pan.
• Cover with lid. After 15 mins, turn the chicken pieces, cover with lid and let it cook for another 15 mins.
• Now turn the pieces again and cook without covering with lid till all the water evaporates.
• Turn off flame when chicken is fully cooked and looks fried. Serve warm. 

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