Chicken with vegetables

This is a variety dish which has chicken as well as vegetables .  It is a real good dish to take for any potluck or for presenting to your guests. The best part is that you can adjust with this one gravy for both rice and chappathy . It is an Indo -Chinese preparation which uses both the Indian spices and masalas that normally go into all non veg gravies , as well as some very common sauces that we use for the Chinese preparation.. You can see the ingredients are also combined in a unique form , so the dish will come out little spicy with the Indian masalas,and little sweet with the added sauces. I got this recipe from a Kerala Recipe book .It is little tedious to prepare and is done in steps in an organized way to make it less strenuous. For this recipe you need boneless chicken pieces ,preferrably breast pieces, some mixed vegetables and the normal veggie ingredients and masala powders. The best form of it is the completely dry style which makes it very appealing to see. Here I have made it in a bit gravy style to suit the requirement, in the first batch of snaps. When I made it second time , it was for a potluck party and I wanted it dry, so you can see the less spicy and dry preparation also in some snaps given.

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS:

• Chicken -20 pieces(Boneless skinless chicken breast)-cleaned and cut into bite sized pieces
• Mixed vegetables- green beans, green peas, carrots, potatoes,capsicum- 1 cup
• Onion -2 medium sized
• Tomato- 2 medium sized
• Ginger garlic paste- 2 tablespoons
• Turmeric powder- 1 tablespoon
• Red chilly powder - 1 tablespoon
• Coriander powder-1/2 tablespoon
• Garam masala - 1 tablespoon
• Soya sauce - 1 tablespoon
• Chilly sauce - 2 tablespoons
• Tomato sauce - 2 tablespoons
• salt as needed
• coriander leaves to garnish
• Pepper powder- 1 tablespoon
• Vinegar- 2 tablespoons

How to Prepare: 

Step 1: Finely chop one onion, one tomato and mix with one tablespoon ginger garlic paste. Add the sauces and mix well .Add the masala powders and salt. Mix well. Add

one tablespoon vinegar and mix well . Now add in the chicken pieces and marinate well. Let it stand for one hour.

Step 2: Add one chopped onion , one chopped tomato and one tablespoon ginger garlic paste to a blender and grind to smooth paste without adding water. Keep it aside.

Step 3: Heat little oil in a flat non stick pan and add all the mixed vegetables. saute it till it is half cooked. Keep aside.

Step 4: Boil the chicken pieces in the marinated mix without adding water for about 20 min or till the chicken is three forth cooked with very less gravy remaining . Keep aside. (If you want a gravy dish then you can stop at an earlier stage and you can add little water while cooking)

Step 5: Heat oil in a kadai , add the blended onion paste and saute well till it is cooked, the raw smell leaves and the gravy thickens

Step 6: Add the sauted mixed vegetables and mix well with the gravy. Allow it to cook together for about 5 minutes.

Step 7: Add the cooked chicken pieces along with the remaining gravy and stir well to mix with the remaining ingredients. Cook uncovered till the gravy is absorbed and the dish is done. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Step 8: Garnish with cashews raisins and coriander leaves . Serve hot with rice or bread varieties.