Chicken Sizzler

• Wash rice in running water and soak in 1 cup water for 15 minutes. Cut each chicken breast in two pieces and flatten them.
• Marinate the cut chicken in lemon juice, 1 tsp salt, and half of the black pepper for 30 minutes.
• Cook the soaked rice on a medium flame in a pot covered with a lid for 8 minutes. Remove from the flame. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and add green capsicum, red capsicum, button mushrooms, and carrot to it. Sprinkle ½ tsp salt on vegetables and black pepper. Saute on a medium flame for 3 minutes. Set aside.
• Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Sear chicken on a high flame. Turn the chicken and lower the flame and cook till tender and brown on both sides. Set aside.
• Heat 1 tbsp oil in a pan and saute onions, garlic, green chilies, and cherry tomatoes for 2 minutes on a high flame.
• Heat a sizzler plate till it is very hot and place it on the wooden plate.
• Drizzle oil on the plate and arrange cabbage leaves on it. Arrange the cooked chicken, rice and stir-fried vegetables in different parts of the plate. Serve sizzling hot.

Trivia

Garlic adds a unique flavor to sizzlers. There are many interesting beliefs associated with garlic. In ancient Greece, brides carried bouquets of garlic and herbs instead of flowers to keep evil forces away! Also, Greek soldiers consumed a good quantity of garlic before a war to improve their performance!