Recipe- Delicious Lemon Pepper Chicken

Who doesn’t love chicken? Given you are a non-vegetarian, of course. We love our chicken in many forms. This tangy lemon pepper chicken, prepared with a host of ingredients and spices, is excellent to boost your immunity. Dominated by Vitamin C from lemon, probiotics from yoghurt (curd), anti-inflammatory, and antiviral properties from ginger, garlic, and pepper, and protein from chicken, it just makes for a healthy, delicious meal.

Ingredients

Chicken – 1 K.g

Marination

Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
Salt as per taste
Black pepper powder – 1 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp
Yoghurt (Curd) – 1/2 cup

Cooking

Oil- 3 tbsp
Bay leaves – 2
Black peppercorns – 4
Chopped garlic – 1 tbsp
Ginger – 1 tbsp
Salt as per taste
Green Chilli – 4
Black pepper powder – 1 tbsp (while cooking)
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp (while cooking)
Corn starch (½ tbsp) with Water (2 tbsp) for slurry

Method

- Marinate the chicken with lemon juice, pepper, ginger garlic paste, and yoghurt (curd).

- Add oil to the pan, drop-in bay leaves, peppercorns, ginger, garlic, and saute for 1 minute.

- Now, add marinated chicken to the pan, and cook for 2-3 minutes, until the colour changes.

- Add green chillies, salt, and pepper powder, and cover the pan to let cook on simmer for 15-20 minutes.

- Add lemon juice, and slurry, made of cornstarch and water, to thicken the gravy.

- Hot off the flame, it’s ready to serve!