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Chettinad Chicken Roast Recipe

August 23, 2014 By Aarthi 25 Comments

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“Chettinad Chicken is filled with whole spices and spicy masala. The freshly roasted spices adds different kind of flavour to this chicken dish. Serve it with rice, roti or pulao.”

I love chettinad cooking, it is spicy and addictive.

Chettinad cuisine is the cuisine of a community called the Nattukotai Chettiars, or Nagarathars as they call themselves,from the Chettinad region of Tamil Nadu state in South India. Chettinad cuisine is perhaps the most renowned fare in the Tamil Nadu repertoire. It uses a variety of spices and the dishes are made with fresh ground masalas. Chettiars also use a variety of sun-dried meats and salted vegetables, reflecting the dry environment of the region. Most of the dishes are eaten with rice and rice based accompaniments such as dosas, appams, idiyappams, adais and idlis. The Chettiars, through their mercantile contacts with Burma, learnt to prepare a type of rice pudding made with sticky red rice.

Chettinad cuisine involves freshly roasted and ground spices which adds new dimension to their cooking. Their dishes are spicy and filled with full of flavour.
I have a chettinad mutton curry, chettinad potato roast, chettinad mushroom, chettinad chicken curry, chettinad egg curry, chettinad fish curry..Check out all my chettinad dishes too.

This is another dish to my repitore. A spicy chicken roast made with chicken so yummy and addictive.

HOW TO MAKE CHETTINAD CHICKEN ROAST

  • Chettinad spice mix: dry roast the spice on a very low heat till it is toasty, then powder it fine. This is your chettinad spice powder.
  • Wet Masala: Now make the masala, by heating oil and sauteing onions, chillies and curry leaves till cooked.
  • Chicken: Now add in chicken, you could use boneless chicken or chicken with bones in. I suggest going for chicken with bones since the chicken stays moist and adds flavour.
  • Spice Mix goes: Add the spice mix and cook for few more mins so the chicken gets a chance to absorb the flavour.
  • Serve the curry: Serve the chettinad chicken curry with hot rice.
You can check out my chilli chicken roast, garlic chicken roast, onion chicken roast, butter chicken roast and all my dry chicken dishes too.

Chettinad Chicken Roast Recipe

Spicy and delicious chicken roast made with whole roasted spices adds a nice flavour to this dish.
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Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
servings
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: South Indian
Keyword: Chettinad chicken, chettinad recipes, chicken recipes
Servings: 4 servings
Calories: 228kcal

Equipment

  • Kadai
  • Blender

Ingredients

  • 3 tbsp Oil
  • 1 large Onions sliced thinly
  • 3 slit Green Chillies
  • a handful Curry Leaves
  • 1 tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste
  • to taste Salt
  • 1 tsp Turmeric Powder / Manjal Podi
  • 500 grams Chicken
  • 3 tbsp Coriander Leaves finely chopped

FOR CHETTINAD MASALA POWDER:

  • 3 tbsp Coriander Seeds / Malli
  • 1 tsp Cumin Seeds / Jeerakam
  • 6 Whole Dry Red Chilli
  • 1 tbsp Fennel Seeds / Saunf / Sombu
  • 1 stick Cinnamon / Pattai
  • 2 piece Kal paasi / Black Stone Flower
  • 4 piece Cardamom / Yelakai
  • 4 piece Cloves / Krambu
  • 1 tsp Whole Black Pepper
  • 1 Star Anise

Instructions

  • Take all the chettinad spices in a dry heavy bottom kadai and roast till aromatic. Take it in a blender and make it into a fine powder.
  • Now in the same kadai. Add in oil and heat it up.
  • Add in onions, curry leaves and chillies and saute till it turns light golden.
  • Now add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a min.
  • Add in salt and turmeric powder and mix well.
  • Add in chicken and toss well in the oil. Cover the pan and cook on low heat for 20 mins.
  • Now the water will come out from the chicken. Mix it and cover again and cook for 15 mins till the chicken is completely cooked.
  • Now open the lid and increase the heat. Add in masala powder and roast it on high flame for 5 mins or so  till the chicken is well coloured.
  • Add in coriander leaves and toss.
  • Serve with rice.

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Notes

1)Dry roast the spices in low heat to bring the flavour from the spices.
2)Powder the spices fine.
3)You can make a big batch of the spice powder and store in a container for future use.
4)You can add more water to this curry to make it saucier.

SERVING SUGGESTIONS:

This curry goes well with rice or roti. You can serve it with hot steamed rice, or hot phulks. This can be served with red rice, cooked millets or quinoa too.

STORING SUGGESTIONS:

1)You can store chettinad chicken roast in fridge for upto 4 days. Reheat in microwave when needed.

Nutrition

Calories: 228kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 45mg | Sodium: 46mg | Potassium: 128mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 84IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 11mg | Iron: 1mg
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Pictorial:
Take your chettinad spices
add them to a dry pan
roast till golden
take them in a blender
powder them
Heat oil in the same kadai
add in onions
saute till it turn translucent
add in curry leaves
and some slit green chillies
saute well
add in ginger garlic paste
some salt
and some turmeric powder
saute till it turn golden
add in chicken
toss well in the oil
cover the pan and cook on low heat
now the chicken is half cooked
cover again and cook
now it is completely cooked and water has evaporated little
Increase the heat
add in powdered spice
toss well in the oil
roast it for few mins
add in coriander leaves
mix well
serve
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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Sreshta Uppalapati

    August 23, 2014 at 10:35 am

    tempting dish.. lovely pictures too…
    please check my new blog
    http://www.sreshtaskitchens.blogspot.in

    Reply
  2. Gayathri

    August 23, 2014 at 4:38 pm

    Your stepwise pictures are really helpful for me. Kindly share non veg lunch menus, I am waiting to impress my guests with most menus and recipes.

    Reply
  3. Divya

    August 25, 2014 at 8:08 am

    Hi Aarthi,

    Thank you for your step-by-step images which you painstakingly shoot for the ease of your followers. I think your dishes are amazing and I would like to thank you for your wonderful recipes. I tried the Chettinad Chicken roast and it came out really well. My husband asked me to specifically leave a thank you note 🙂 So you can see how well it turned out 😉

    Thanks Again and pls continue with your lovely, helpful posts.

    Reply
  4. Arzoo Karnani

    September 5, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Hi Aarthi I used boneless chicken n it became very hard why is that so..can you help

    Reply
  5. Aarthi

    September 6, 2014 at 4:06 am

    @Arzoo Karnani boneless chicken needs only half the amount of time to cook. You must have over cooked it..

    Reply
  6. Rob

    September 15, 2014 at 6:56 am

    This looks delicious! I will definitely try it.

    But aren't poppy seeds normally included in most chettinad masalas?

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  7. Aarthi

    September 15, 2014 at 9:45 am

    @RobThis recipe dont need that

    Reply
  8. SUSHMITHA

    November 23, 2014 at 9:29 pm

    Hello Aarthi,

    Thank you so much for wonderful dish and the presentation, which helped me a lot during cooking process..

    Reply
  9. Sherin Deepu

    January 12, 2015 at 2:46 pm

    Looks delicious……I have book marked to try.

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    March 17, 2015 at 3:56 am

    I don't have corriander seeds…Can u tell me how many table spoons of corriander powder can be used….reply soon

    Reply
  11. Anonymous

    March 17, 2015 at 3:59 am

    I dont understand why the masala is added last. In all the chicken recipes we add masala before adding chicken & then chicken will be nicely coated with the masala. Can u plz advise.

    Reply
  12. Aarthi

    March 17, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    @Anonymousadd 2 tblspn of coriander powder

    Reply
  13. Aarthi

    March 17, 2015 at 1:57 pm

    @Anonymousit is because the spices are alrady cooked and adding it half way through the cooking makes it crunchy and tasty

    Reply
  14. Anonymous

    May 24, 2015 at 1:54 pm

    Can u please provide the substitute for black stone flower or can we remove it?

    Reply
  15. Aarthi

    May 25, 2015 at 5:26 am

    @Anonymousyes u can remove it

    Reply
  16. Anonymous

    September 4, 2015 at 3:59 pm

    How to measure tspn and tblspn

    Reply
  17. Aarthi

    September 8, 2015 at 3:41 pm

    @Anonymousu have to get measuring spoons

    Reply
  18. Anonymous

    October 12, 2015 at 2:26 am

    Hi Aarthi.

    thank you so much for the wonderful dish … I tried the Chettinad Chicken roast and it came out really well.. all my family members love it alot

    Reply
  19. Anonymous

    March 9, 2016 at 5:08 am

    Hi, i have tried so many recipes from your blog. All hit in my family, Keep rocking, i have seen your post in Tamil Traditional Food blog, as Thenthisai's post. This same, chettinad Chicken Roast recipe is given in Tamil with same write up and photo. Is this with your knowledge? Just for your information.

    Reply
  20. Aarthi

    March 10, 2016 at 1:40 pm

    @Anonymousno i dont know about that..i checked that site, it has lots of copied content.

    Reply
  21. revathy Utham

    August 7, 2016 at 10:03 am

    Just tried today..the dish was a hit..my hubby like it very much ☺…awesome recipe.

    Reply
  22. Sea Within

    August 14, 2016 at 4:24 am

    Goodness .. It's one of the BEST South Indian food blogs I have seen!!
    LOVED the photoessay and the crisp quick language 😀
    Keep it up ..

    Reply
    • Nina Fernando

      May 9, 2020 at 5:03 am

      Tried your chicken roast,it was yum

      Reply
  23. sanjairaj s

    March 26, 2017 at 9:05 am

    Hi aarthi tried today chettinad chicken roast came out very well.thank you and in mutton chukka have you used medium or small size tomato

    Reply
  24. Nina Fernando

    May 9, 2020 at 5:09 am

    Tried your chicken roast,it was yum

    Reply

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