Cilantro and Bell Pepper Chicken

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. We spent our christmas hopping around theme parks this year. My son was super excited to meet his hero Optimus Prime from the Transformers movie at Universal studios. We had our share of fun with the rides at Disneyland, Universal Studios and Legoland and the amazing LA food, of course. I am planning to do another post with all the restaurants we visited during our Los Angeles visit. California never fails to please our appetite in its literal sense.

After coming back from a week long vacation, we were longing for some home-cooked food. My son was craving for some home-made chicken curry but I didn't feel like making the same old curry. Therefore, I decided to make something different. Here goes the recipe and the outcome. 

Ingredients:

1 whole chicken

1 onion thinly sliced

2 tbsp garlic paste

1 tbsp ginger paste

4-5 green chilies

1/2 tsp garam masala

1/2 a bunch of cilantro

1/2 tomato

1/2 red bell pepper

1 tbsp vinegar

Salt, sugar, turmeric and black pepper per taste

Mustard oil and vegetable oil

Recipe:

Blend the cilantro, bell-pepper, green chillies and tomato together with a little water

Marinate the chicken with salt, vinegar, ginger and garlic paste for at least about 2 hours 

Heat some oil in a pan. I used both mustard and vegetable oil together

Add the sugar and black pepper to the hot oil

Fry the onion very well until brown

Add garam masala

Then add the marinated chicken

Cook the chicken until half done and all the water is dried

Then add the cilantro-pepper blend

Cook it at medium-low heat for 20-25 minutes until oil separates, sprinkle water as needed to make sure the spices don't stick to the bottom