New Dreams: Ksuri Methi Chicken

Every recipe has a story behind it.
Chicken - reminds of me of sweet cousin.
I invited him and his fiance home for lunch.
I could not prepare a simple pappu charu and chicken curry - by the time they arrived.
It was well past lunch-time already.
I was kind of very slow - Nah! i was not slow but had inertia.
Loads of inertia.
I thought i could never cook.
Now; i can very well cook sambhar/chicken curry in 30 mins.
Its all about managing/organizing/resource planning :-)

Well! Coming back to my memory about chicken-n Gautam Annaya.
He did not discourage me or mock me about my utter inability to prepare a simple meal.
He did show me how to cook chicken in the most simplest way.
Bachelor cooking .
This memory would remain with me for my whole life.
It was a fragile moment - it was like a break / make moment.
I was turmoiled by the fact that i could not prepare a simple meal.
His help meant help/support for the "whole life" :-)

And its during this ahh-sho-shweet cookery session - i've learned the importance of coriander powder. My pedhamma; is a great cook. Especially non-veg. At this moment; if she'd call me
for dinner - i'd run to her place. It was her tip passed to annaya and then to me.
If its non-veg; it has to end with loads of coriander powder. Tried & Tested - would stick to that
mantra all my life.

Its : Chicken - memory back to Gautam Anna - pedhamma's non-veg - Initial post-marriage cooking inertias! Thank God! Gautam Anna was there that day with me :-)

Coming back to this recipe - this built its own memory.
It was Holi, my sister and sis-in-law were with us.
Two lovely b'ful girls playing, lisping and dancing...

My sis-in-law; helped me build this b'ful recipe.
I was just a helper though.

I've learned this tip from her - adding Ginger Garlic paste before the onions turn
pink/brown - is a disaster. It would tend to burn itself and onions too.

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