Easy Black Pepper chicken fry is a quick chicken recipe for the dry chicken or starter chicken but very delicious which you can quickly prepare at home and serve it as a starter or chicken side dish. Ingredients required for this starter chicken fry recipe are also very accessible. So come let’s make our Pepper Fried Chicken .

Ingredients for Black Pepper Lemon fried chicken

Cooking Ingredients

500g chicken (good if marinated in little salt for 1-2 hours)

1 spoon Ginger Garlic paste

1-2 medium Cinnamon stick

4 whole black pepper

8-10 black pepper crushed (i.e. 1-1.5 tbsp crushed black pepper)

Salt as per taste (including salt used in marination)

Lemon juice of 1 medium size lemon

Small butter cube

2-3 tbsp edible oil

1 spoon corn flour (As a substitute, all purpose flour i.e. Maida can be used)

4-5 green chilli (vertically cut preferred)

8-10 curry leaves

5-6 fresh coriander leaves

1 small bowl curd

2-3 spoon water (to mix with corn flour)

Serving ingredients(Optional)

1 Onion

3-4 green chilli (vertically cut preferred)

1-2 Lemon Wedges

Recipe Steps for Black Pepper Lemon fried chicken

Take a non stick pan or wok. Add oil and butter in it. Keep the flame on medium high.

Once hot add black pepper and cinnamon stick. Let it heat for around 40-45 seconds.

Add curry leaves and let them heat for 20-30 seconds.

Add chicken pieces and spread them. Try ensuring that each one is touching base.

Cook on medium heat for 3-4 minutes till chicken pieces start getting golden brown. Keep stirring in between.

Turn the flame to low medium and add ginger garlic paste. Cook for 1-2 minutes.

Add curd and mix well.

Add/Sprinkle salt.

Add crushed black pepper and mix it.

Add half of the lemon juice.

Cover it and leave it for 5-6 minutes on low medium heat. Stir once in between.

Add green chilli and mix.

Add corn flour in the chicken and mix.

Coat the chicken pieces well and add remaining lemon juice.

Let it cook on medium high till pieces are tender and water evaporates.

Add fresh coriander leaves and mix.

Switch off the flame.

Serving Black Pepper Lemon fried chicken

Transfer the dish to serving plate.

Serve it along with onions, green chili and lemon.

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