Wash and cut chicken into pieces.
Marinate chicken with Eastern chicken masala, chilly powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and salt for 30 minutes.
Grind the grinding ingredients to a fine paste.
Heat oil in a pan.
Pour the ground mix into the pan.
Add 1/2 spoon of eastern masala and saute till it turns slight brown colour.
Once ground mix becomes slight brown colour, add marinated chicken to the pan with one cup of water.
Add chopped tomato, green chilly, pepper crushed/powdered and curry leaves and stir well and close the lid.
Cook it for 15 minutes and in between keep stirring so that chicken does not get burned.
Garnish with fresh coriander leaves.
:- Serve hot with fried rice, chapathi, rice, dosa etc.