Chicken Pallipalayam / Pallipalayam Style Chicken Fry Recipe

Pallipalayam is a small town in Namakkal District. Seems there were more people who were doing the carpenter jobs, and they had to travel to the neighbor places/towns for their job all the time. During those travels, they cannot carry more ingredients with them for cooking.As well as they cannot spend much time also for cooking. Hence they invented this interesting recipe with limited ingredients which stay good for long time in room temperature itself. Hence it has got the name as Pallipalayam Chicken.

Pallipalayam chicken fry is the easiest  and delicious chicken fry made with few ingredients. Pallipalayam is a place near Erode and this dish is very famous around this region. Pallipalayam chicken also has its place in the menu of most of the South Indian restaurants. It can be either had as an appetizer or as a side dish for rice.

Ingredients:

1. Boneless Chicken - 1/2 kg
2. Shallots / Small Onion - 20 nos
3. Dried Red Chilies - 10 nos (may vary according to the size)
4. Coconut large- 1/2 Unit 
5. Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tbsp
6. Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
7. Curry and Coriander Leaves
8. Cooking Oil - 2 tbsp
9. Salt as per taste

Cooking Method : 

Wash Thoroughly the Chicken pieces and keep it aside.

Cut the Onions (Here I have used Big Onions for my Convenience). Cut the Coconut into small pieces). Deseed the Red Chilies.

In a cooking pan add oil. Once it gets heated add Onions and saute them for a while, then add red chilies, ginger garlic paste and curry leaves. Saute them nicely till aroma comes. Then add turmeric. Then add the coconut pieces and saute for some time. Finally add the chicken pieces, salt and saute in medium flame for about 10 mins. 
Close the lid without adding water and cook until chicken becomes soft. It leaves water and gets cooked on its own water. 
Now the red Chilies and ginger garlic paste spiciness has nicely absorbed by the chicken and gives a good flavour and taste.
Cook in medium low flame until all the water has absorbed and becomes dry. 
Finally Garnish with enough coriander leaves and serve hot.

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It goes well with any type of rice variety and also with plain rice and curd rice it will be a very good combination.

Notes:

• Pls do avoid red chilli powder for this recipe as the flavour and good taste will definitely differ. 
• You may use pressure cooker for easy and quick cooking, as it needs some water to cook.
• I wished I need gravy that day, so I added some water and cooked in pressure cooker, the chicken was well cooked and I switched off the stove when I got the gravy consistency. It was very tasty with plain Rice.
• Here in the above pic you may notice tomato might be added. But its not true, its red chilly soft variety. So it cooked well. 
• The Red chilies may be increased or decreased according to your spiciness.
• You can add some tsp of gingelly oil as it reduces the hot and spiciness of the chicken when it is consumed.