Paratha & Pepper Chicken

Ingredients:

• 4 cups Maida
• 1/2 cup Yogurt (preferably home made)
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1/4 tsp Baking soda
• 1 Large Egg(optional)
• 1/2 cup cooking Oil
• Warm water
• Small amount of Butter

Methods:

1. Add salt, baking soda, oil, yogurt and egg to maida ad mix them well.

2. Add warm water to the mix and keep stirring it to the consistency of Chappati dough.

3. Cover the dough with damp cloth and let it sit for one hour.

4. Create a medim size balls from the dought. With four cups of flour you should be able to create at least 7 balls for a medium size paratha.

5. On a large flat surface like your kitchen countertop, roll the ball as thin as possible. Dont worry about the shape for now.

6. Start from the longest end. Make a fold of about half inch toward the inner side. Next, fold it again so that first fold doesn't goes inside but stays outseide, in the shape of "W". Continue to fold on the fashion to create "zipzag" fashion in terms of folding.

7. Roll the zipzag pattern to come to the round shape as show above.

8. Set the pan in stove to medium heat.

9. Roll the dough in your desired shape. I prefer the popular circle shape.

10. Apply some butter and put in the pan.

11. Cook the paratha on each side for about a minute until in reach light brownish color.

12. Take the cooked paratha and place it on a plain surface. Smash the paratha sideways to make it soft & fluffy.

13. Serve hot with some spicy accomplishments. 

Pepper Chicken

This pepper chicken is less spicy.Only pepper corns paste is added for spice in the chicken.I use to give this to my son.

Ingredients:
1/2 lb Chicken(cut into medium size pieces)
2 Onion (medium size)
2 Tomato
1 tsp Ginger-garlic Paste
1/2 tsp Fennel
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
1 1/2 tbsp Poppy seeds(soaked in hot water for 10 minutes & finely pasted)
2 Cinnamon(medium size)
1/2 tsp Garam masala powder
4 Cloves
2 Bay leaves
2 tbsp Curd(optional)
1 tbsp Cumin seeds
1 tsp Pepper corn
Oil 
Coriander leaves for garnishing
Salt for taste


Method:
1. Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste,poppy seeds paste,turmeric powder,garam masala & salt.

2. Pre-heat the oil in a pan & spultter fennel seeds,Cinnamon,Cloves & bay leaves.

3. Then, add the chopped onion & fry till golden brown & add chopped tomato now and cook the tomato till the oil comes seperate from onion & tomato.

4. And now, add the marinated chicken,1/2 cup water & cook it for 15 to 20 minutes in medium heat.

5. Fry the cumin seeds,pepper corns & curd & grind them.Add this paste to the chicken gravy.

6. Garnish the chicken with the coriander leaves & keep the flame in low heat & close the pan for 5 minutes 

    till the oil comes seperate from the chicken.

7. Serve the chicken with  Paratha.