Chicken bezule is a popular appetizer which is sold in the streets of Mangalore, which is a city in south India. These are perfect little bites fit for a cocktail party or even as a snack.
This can be made with boneless chicken or even with bone-in chicken pieces. I prefer bone-in skinless ones. If you are using boneless chicken pieces, either breast meat or the juicier thigh meat can be used. But one main thing to remember, breast meat can get dry as it does not contain internal fat. So to get nice tender chicken, you just follow these two tips: coat the chicken in the marinade for long hours and when frying, do not over fry the chicken. Fry the chicken just until it is done.
This recipe is adapted from VahrehVah.com. I must say the recipes of this popular chef- Sanjay Thumma is too good. So easy to follow and the result will be mind-blowing. A great fan of his recipes.
Do try out this delicious chicken recipe, you all will love it.
1/2 kg Chicken, cut into small bite size pieces
To grind:
Coriander leaves- a handful
2 sprigs curry leaves
3 green chillies
1″ piece ginger
4 cloves garlic
1 1/2- 2 tsp Chilly powder
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
Few drops of red food color
1 tbsp rice flour
1 tbsp all purpose flour
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp yoghurt
Oil to deep fry
Salt to taste
- Grind the ingredients listed under to grind into a coarse paste.
- To the ground paste add all the ingredients except the rice flour and all purpose flour. Marinate for a minimum of four hours or better overnight.
- Before frying add in the flours. I had added all the ingredients including the flours and then marinated it. But i think it would be better if you add both the flours just before frying.
- Fry in hot oil.
- Serve hot.
Notes:
✔ If the batter is too dry, the marinade will come off the chicken when frying. So if you get a dry batter, add in a few drops of water to get a slightly wet batter so that it sticks well onto the chicken.
✔ Add the chicken in real hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough you will get soggy chicken and also the chances of the marinade coming off the chicken is high.
✔ Do not add many pieces of chicken at a time while frying. That is, do not overcrowd the pan.
✔ Do not over-fry the chicken. Fry to perfection to get nice tender pieces.
✔ Do not skip the marinating part.
Chicken Bezule
Ingredients
INGREDIENTS
- 1/2 kg Chicken cut into small bite size pieces
To grind
- Coriander leaves- a handful
- 2 sprigs curry leaves
- 3 green chillies
- 1 ″ piece ginger
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 1/2- 2 tsp Chilly powder
- 1/2 tsp garam masala powder
- Few drops of red food color
- 1 tbsp rice flour
- 1 tbsp all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 tbsp yoghurt
- Oil to deep fry
- Salt to taste
Instructions
DIRECTIONS
- Grind the ingredients listed under to grind into a coarse paste.
- To the ground paste add all the ingredients except the rice flour and all purpose flour. Marinate for a minimum of four hours or better overnight.
- Before frying add in the flours. I had added all the ingredients including the flours and then marinated it. But i think it would be better if you add both the flours just before frying.
- Fry in hot oil.
- Serve hot.
Notes
✔ Add the chicken in real hot oil. If the oil is not hot enough you will get soggy chicken and also the chances of the marinade coming off the chicken is high.
✔ Do not add many pieces of chicken at a time while frying. That is, do not overcrowd the pan.
✔ Do not over-fry the chicken. Fry to perfection to get nice tender pieces.
✔ Do not skip the marinating part.
Looks exactly like chicken sold by street vendors. Didn’t know rice flour was the secret to a crisp coating.
Thankyou anjana! Yeah the rice flour and maida gives that amazing coating to the chicken. 🙂
Wow Sadia, you took me back to Mangalore. That looks so appetizing!!
🙂 🙂 Thankyou priya! are you from mangalore? I am in india at the moment and i just visited mangalore last week. 🙂
Yes, I’m originally from Mangalore, from the past 6 years I’m in Gujarat since I’m married 🙂 Are you from Mangalore too??
Ooh kk. No i am from kerala, born and bought up in Dubai but now in kuwait with husband since two years. 🙂
Ok. By the look of that chicken, I thought you were from Mangalore as well 🙂
This looks amazing! but I have 2 problems I don’t have rice powder, or curry leaves (and I don’t want to use the powdered one) what can I substitute them with?
Instead of the rice flour use cornflour. But i cannot think of any substitute for curry leaves. If you don’t get curry leaves just omit it. Hope this helped.
Hiii sadia…hope u do remembr me…wonderful pics n a real easy recipe…hope all is well with u…
wow this looks soo good and is quite simple to make too! will surely try this over the weekend! 🙂
Thankyou nisreen! Lemme know how it turned out. 🙂
This chicken looks finger likin’ good!!
Thankyou Afra! 🙂
Hey i tried this out last weekend and it turned out yumm!! Thnx!
Yeaah! Im glad that u liked it. 🙂
These look so good , I am going to try this once.
Thanks Finla! Do lemme know how u liked it.