Oregano Chicken

Oregano Chicken 

This is a chicken dish with an  Italian flavour.   I innovated
this dish from the Lemon chicken recipe of my Samsung Microwave
cookbook and a recipe which I had long time back cooked by my
sisters mother in law.

Ingredients
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• Chicken - 250 gms  (boneless breast piece, cut in small pieces) 
• Curd -    3 -4 Table spoon 
• Cloves - 3-4 
• Black Pepper - 3-4 
• Salt - to taste 
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tea spoon 
• Onion - 1 
• Butter - 1 Table spoon 
• Black pepper Powder - to taste 
• Oregano - to taste 

Procedure
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• Marinate the chicken for 30 minutes to 1 hr with curd, cloves, black pepper and ginger-garlic paste. ( If you marinate longer it may be even better.
• Now put butter in the frying pan and melt it.
• Next  fry the onion (finely cut) in butter till soft and then put the marinated chicken and fry till the oil comes out and chicken is tender. 
• This is a dry dish but one can put very little warm water if one wants a bit of gravy. 
• Put Oregano and black pepper powder from top 

The version which my sisters mother-in-law used to cook was using
more curd and butter and only black pepper powder. But I found adding oregano gives it a nice taste.
Since this is not a gravy dish often at the end I mix pre-cooked Basmati rice in this at the end and fry the whole thing together for 2-3 minutes.
In this way the juice gets inside the rice and makes it a chicken-rice combo dish.