Fried Chicken in Dried Jute & Roselle Leaves

North East style Chicken fry

A simple fried chicken recipe, the taste of an odd combination - bitter and sour.  The flavour of which comes from the two main ingredients - dried Roselle leaves and dried Jute leaves, which are used in small quantities ensuring that they do not over-power the dish and balanced.

Dried roselle leaves & Dried Jute leaves

Ingredients for chicken fry

INGREDIENTS

1.    Chicken – ½ kg

2.    Onions- 1 large sliced

3.    Green chilies- 8 to 10 slit

4.    Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp.

5.    Salt as per taste

6.    Oil – 1 tbsp.

7.    Cumin powder- ½ tsp.

8.    Turmeric- ½ tsp.

9.     Dried Jute leaves – 4 tsp.

10.  Dried Roselle leaves – 2 tsp

11.  Lemon- 1 small 

PREPARATION

1. Heat the oil in a pan. Once hot, add the onions and green chilies. Fry themuntil golden brown.

2. Now add the chicken, turmeric powder, ginger -garlic paste, salt and squeeze half of the lime. Mix it well and cover this and cook it on a low flame for 20 minutes; stir occasionally in between and cook this until the water from the meat is dried and oil starts separating.

3. Open cook this for couple of minutes, then add our main ingredients – dried Roselle and dried Jute leaves and keep frying this 5 minutes.

4.    Finally squeeze in the other half of lemon and cook it for 2-3 minutes.

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