South Indian
Chicken 65 (Home-Style Pan-Fried)
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Chicken 65 (Home-Style Pan-Fried) is South Indian home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Cut the chicken thighs into bite-sized pieces and marinate with the yogurt, ginger garlic paste, red chili powder, kashmiri chili powder, turmeric, lemon juice and salt for at least 30 minutes, longer if you have the time.
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Just before frying, mix the cornstarch, rice flour and egg into the marinated chicken until each piece is evenly coated in a thick, clinging batter.
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Heat the oil in a wide pan over medium-high heat and fry the chicken in batches, without crowding the pan, for 6 to 7 minutes, turning occasionally, until deep golden and cooked through. Drain on a paper towel.
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In the same pan, leave a tablespoon of oil, pop the mustard seeds, then add the curry leaves and slit green chilies and let them sizzle 30 seconds.
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Toss the fried chicken back in, coating it in the tempering, and cook 1 minute more. Serve hot with lemon wedges.
Serve it with
A South Indian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken 65 (Home-Style Pan-Fried), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
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Something cool and fresh
A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken 65 (Home-Style Pan-Fried) carries dairy and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Adai (Tamil Nadu Multi-Lentil Dosa) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Adai (Tamil Nadu Multi-Lentil Dosa) |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 350 kcal
- Protein
- 28 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 21 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Chicken 65 (Home-Style Pan-Fried) takes about 45 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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