Chicken Sambhar

Dunno whether anyone would have already prepared sambhar with chicken pieces, but i did actually accidently...Few months back,we invited some of our relatives for a sunday lunch and i was planning to prepare chicken fry and sambhar with mixed vegetables..so i prepared cooked dal and meanwhile i have washed and marinated chicken pieces for making chicken fry...While started stirring the onion and tomatoes for sambhar, accidently i added the ginger garlic paste which i kept aside for making chicken fry...at that moment, i really dunno wat to do and was blinking like anything...suddenly i thought of adding those marinated chicken pieces to the cooking veggies and started sauting the marinated chicken pieces, finally added the cooked dal with sambhar powder and finished as a delicious chicken sambhar, for my surprise our relatives enjoyed having this chicken sambhar and almost a big hit at that time, from that day onwards this fabulous chicken sambhar took an important part in our non-vegetarian menu...This chicken sambhar suits prefectly with rotis, idlis, dosas and with hot steaming rice...Do try friends u will surely love this...Am sending this chicken sambhar to VIki's The Potluck-Chicken...

1/2kg Chicken pieces

1tsp Ginger paste

1tsp Garlic paste

1/2tsp Garam masala powder

1/2tsp Red chilly powder

1/4tsp Coriander powder

1/4tsp Turmeric powder

1no Onion (chopped)

2nos Tomatoes (chopped)

2nos Green chillies (slit opened)

1cup Cooked toor dal

1/2tsp Mustard seeds+urad dal

2nos Dry red chillies

1tsp Lemon juice

5nos Curry leaves

2tbsp Coriander leaves (chopped)

Salt

Oil

Marinate the chicken pieces with redchilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala with enough salt and keep aside...Now heat the oil and add the mustard seeds, urad dal and dry red chillies and let them fry...add now the chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, curry leaves,slit opened green chillies, ginger and garlic paste,stir until the onions turns transculent..finally add the marinated chicken pieces and cook everything until the chicken change the colour and the raw smell of the ginger garlic paste disappears..add a cup of water to the chicken -veggies mixture and cook in simmer for 5minutes...

Now add the already cooked dal with salt and cook everything until the oil gets separates and the chicken pieces get well cooked...its time to add the lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves to the chicken sambhar and put off the stove...

Enjoy this sambhar with hot steaming rice!!!