DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Chettinad pepper chicken
Also known as: Chettinad chicken curry, Chicken Chettinad
Luke Nguyen’s selected Chettinad pepper chicken combines chicken breast with whole spices, curry leaves, red onion and tomato, finishing with ground black pepper.
About Chettinad pepper chicken
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Luke Nguyen’s Chettinad pepper chicken, published by SBS Food, uses chicken breast with a spice-and-onion mixture. Ground black pepper is stirred in at the finish.
Sunflower oil heats the black stone flower, cinnamon, star anise, fennel seeds, dried chilies and curry leaves. The source describes black stone flower as a dried edible lichen.
Red onion is cooked until lightly browned, followed by garlic and ginger paste. Diced tomato then cooks down to a paste in the same pan.
The chicken, turmeric and salt are added before a little named water. The mixture simmers until that water has evaporated, then the ground black pepper is stirred through.
The finished mixture is spooned onto the offered banana-leaf-lined plate. Coriander sprigs and sliced red chili form the named garnish.
Ingredients in Chettinad pepper chicken
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- Black Pepperseasoning
- Coconutsauce
- Chickenprotein
- Curry Leafseasoning
- Onionsauce
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Cooking traditions
- Chettinad / Indian
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