Chicken sevai recipe | Chicken santhavai recipe | Chicken idiyappam biryani
Chicken sevai is a tempting breakfast/dinner recipe with chicken and sevai/freshly made or store bought. Sevai is also known as santhagai or sandhavai .
Chicken santhavai recipe with step by step tutorials and pictorial description along with the detailed video recipe
I still remember having chicken sevai at my aunts hse. I call her Renu velima, I think it was in my college days. It was so tasty that it clinged to my mind and from then I was thinking to try it at home. Have tried a couple of times earlier and that i wanted to capture the video reciep to help you better.
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Chicken sevai video recipe
Chicken sandhavai /sevai recipe:
Chicken sevai
Ingredients
- 2 packets sevai ~ 1/2 kg
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
- 1.5 tbsp garlic chopped
- 1 tbsp ginger chopped
- 3 no red chilli broken
- 1 spring curry leaves
- 2 large onion finely chopped
- 2 medium tomato finely chopped
- 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder
- 1/2 kg chicken
- salt to taste
- 1/2 tsp pepper powder final garnish
- 2 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
Instructions
- Heat oil in a cooker, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds
- When it splutters, add chopped garlic, chopped ginger, red chilli, curry leaves, fry for a minute till raw smell of ginger and garlic goes off.
- Further, add chopped onions and fry for 2 minutes until onions are brown.
- Add chopped tomatoes and fry again for 2 minutes until tomatoes are mushy
- Futhermore, goes in turmeric powder, chilli powder, pepper powder and cumin powder. Fry for 1 minute till well blended
- Add the finely chopped chicken pieces. season salt as required and mix well
- Add 2 cups water and mix well. Close the cooker and cook for 5 whistles
- Open and let it boil until the gravy is thickened. Now, add Cooked sevai /ready made sevai and mix well.
- Add pepper powder finally and mix again. Sprinkle coriander leaves over and mix again
Chicken idiyappam biryani – pictorial description:
- Heat oil in a cooker, splutter mustard seeds, cumin seeds
- When it splutters, add chopped garlic, chopped ginger, red chilli, curry leaves, fry for a minute till raw smell of ginger and garlic goes off.
- Further, add chopped onions and fry for 2 minutes until onions are brown.
- Add chopped tomatoes and fry again for 2 minutes until tomatoes are mushy
- Futhermore, goes in turmeric powder, chilli powder, pepper powder and cumin powder
- Fry for 1 minute till well blended
- Add the finely chopped chicken pieces.
- season salt as required and mix well
- Add 2 cups water and mix well
- Close the cooker and cook for 5 whistles
- Open and let it boil until the gravy is thickened
- Now, add Cooked sevai /ready made sevai and mix well
- Add pepper powder finally and mix again
- Sprinkle coriander leaves over and mix again
- Serve hot with coconut chutney
