fried chicken

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Hello, food lovers greetings today I made easy and simple fried chicken for the @qurator hive top chef challenge. It was a nice and quick recipe, These days i have a heavy load at work and not so much time to make food photos to post on the hive. But today I did it very simple and without stress.

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Ingredients:
300 grams chicken filet
2 tbsp yogurt
2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric
2 tbsp lemon juice
3 tbsp rice flour
2 tbsp cornstarch
2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
2 pinches of beetroot powder.
Oil for fry
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In a bowl mix salt, turmeric, chili powder, and lemon juice.

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Adding yogurt.

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Mixed all together into a smooth paste

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Added chicken (cleaned fat and made appropriate bits) to the spice paste. The paste is for 750 grams of chicken.

Added ginger garlic paste.

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Coated all the chicken bites thoroughly with the paste. This is kind of marinade. Covered and kept in the fridge Went to work for 2 and half hours.
Afterwards came back home refreshed and started the next process.

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Here is 3 tbsp rice flour and 2 tbsp cornstarch.

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After mixing both flours 2 pinches of beetroot powder and 2 pinches of salt are mixed in the flour.

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Now thoroughly coat the chicken pieces with the flour .

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Warm oil in a pan.

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Carefully put chicken pieces in the oil.

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Fried them 70%. And took them out of oil
kept aside for around 2-3 minutes. i do this to keep them moist and crispy

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Again the fried chicken pieces were put back in the hot oil and fried until they got crispy.

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Here they are finished- crispy outside and soft and moist inside.

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we ate some alone and some of them were chopped and mixed in boiled rice with ghee and cashew nuts
Thanks, @qurator for an easy and quick food challenge.

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