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Jeera chicken is a mildly spiced chicken dish flavoured with lots of cumin seed and roasted cumin powder. It is a dry chicken dish. Onions is caramelized and chicken is cooked in the the mix till it is completely dry. This can be served with Jeera rice.
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1.About Jeera Chicken Recipe
2.📖 Recipe Card
3.Jeera Chicken Recipe | Cumin Chicken Recipe
4.Cumin Chicken step by step pictures
Jeera Chicken Recipe
Jeera chicken is one of the most delicious lipsmacking chicken recipe. It is good on its own or as a side for rice or roti.
About Jeera Chicken Recipe
Cumin chicken is a dry fish flavoured with cumin seeds. Jeera chicken has an addition of onions and spice powders along with cumin seeds.
Onions is caramelized and chicken is cooked in the the mix till it is completely dry. This can be served with Jeera rice.
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How to Make Jeera chicken
- Heat oil and ghee in a nonstick pan. Sprinkle in cumin and let them sizzle.
- Add in onions, chillies and cook till golden.
- Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
- Sprinkle in spice powders and mix well.
- Add in chicken, salt and toss well. Add in water, cover and simmer for 10 to 15 mins.
- Now open the lid and increase the heat and dry the chicken.
- Once the chicken is dried up, add lemon juice and toss well.Serve.
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Jeera Chicken Recipe | Cumin Chicken Recipe
Delicious jeera chicken flavoured with cumin seeds and taste spicy with jeera rice. Onions is caramelized and chicken is cooked in the the mix till it is completely dry. This can be served with Jeera rice.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- Oil - 3 tblspn
- Ghee - 2 tblspn
- Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam - 1 tblspn
- Onion - 2 large sliced thinly
- Green Chillies - 2 slit
- Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tblspn
- Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
- Coriander Powder - 1 tblspn
- Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
- Cumin Powder - 2 tsp
- Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
- Boneless Chicken - 500 grams cut into strips
- Water - ½ cup
- Lemon Juice as needed
Instructions
Heat oil and ghee in a nonstick pan. Add cumin and let them sizzle.
Add in onions, chillies and cook till golden.
Add in ginger garlic paste and mix well.
Add in spice powders and mix well.
Add in chicken, salt and toss well. Add in water, cover and simmer for 10 to 15 mins.
Now open the lid and increase the heat and dry the chicken.
Once the chicken is dried up, add lemon juice and toss well.
Serve.
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Cumin Chicken step by step pictures
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| Heat oil and ghee in a pan |
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| cumin seeds and let them sizzle |
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| add onions and green chillies |
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| saute them |
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| cook till it gets lightly golden |
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| add ginger garlic paste |
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| mix well |
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| add cumin, coriander, chilli, turmeric and garam masala powder |
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| toss well |
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| add chicken |
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| mix well |
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| add salt |
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| add little water |
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| cover and cook on low heat for 10 mins |
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| increase the heat and dry up the chicken |
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| done |
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| add lemon juice and mix well |
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| Serve |
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About Aarthi
Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!
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Anonymous
YOUR recipes are really good at presentation, the cooking steps inspires us to cook and the taste is also lip smacking
keep going!!!!!
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Shakir
Such a mouth watering recipe. I love how you've posted the pic of every step 🙂
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