4 chicken leg pieces
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
2 onions, chopped
A pinch of garam masala
1/2 tsp chili powder
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp cumin seeds
100 gms urad dal (black gram)
200 gms rice
5 gms methi seeds
Oil for frying

Udipi Chicken

1. Soak the rice, urad dal and methi seeds in water for few hours and grind to a fine smooth dosa batter. Keep aside to ferment for few hours. This can be done a day before too.
2. Mix salt, 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste and marinate the chicken pieces in this mixture for few minutes.
3. Make a fine paste of chopped onions and cumin seeds. To this, add remaining ginger-garlic paste, salt, chili powder, garam masala and mix well. Apply this mixture to the chicken pieces and keep aside for 30 minutes.
4. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, take each chicken piece, dip in the above dosa batter and fry in the oil until golden brown.
5. Serve hot.
   Serves: 2
   Preparation time: 40-50 minutes