Friday, June 19, 2020

Chicken Ghee Roast

Chicken Ghee Roast is a popular Tuluva Chicken recipe whose origins go back to a small town, Kundapur, close to Mangalore. This is not the actual Kundapur Recipe, but this recipe followed by all households in Mangalore. I tried this recipe from a food blog video and the dish was yummy. Request all my friends to try preparing this dish.. Have a great weekend ...




Ingredients:

Chicken - 1 kg (with bone)

Onions - 1 large (chopped finely)

Ghee - ½ cup

Jaggery - 1 tsp

Vinegar - 1 tsp

Salt - to taste

Curry leaves - 2-3 strings

To marinate the chicken:

Curd - 4 tbsp (thick)

Turmeric powder - ½ tsp

Salt - to taste

Chicken

For the Roast masala:

Dry kashmiri chillies - 15 nos

Corriender seeds - 1 tbsp

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp

Cumin seeds - 2 tsp

Pepper corns - 2 tbsp

Garlic - 5 pods

Ginger - 1 piece

Lemon juice - 2 tbsp

Water - 2-3 tbsp


Preparation:

- Marinate the cleaned chicken with curd, turmeric powder, salt and keep aside for 10 mts. 

- Preparation of dry masala: In a pan dry roast only the Kashmiri chillies first and keep aside. In the same pan roast coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fennel seeds and pepper corns till we get a nice aroma. Once done keep this mixture aside and let cool.

- Preparation of roast masala -  In a blender add the dry roasted mixture, ginger, garlic, lemon juice, water and grind it into a smooth thick paste and keep aside.

- Now, take a kadia, add ½ cup ghee and let heat. Add chopped onions and saute till onions are translucent and slight brown in colour (make sure not to burn the onions).

- Into this add the grinded masala and saute for two minutes. 

- Add the marinated chicken and mix well till chicken is completely coated with the masala. Let the chicken cook on medium-high  flame till done (without lid on). Keep mixting the chicken and make sure not to get the chicken burnt.

- Add vinegar, jaggery and curry leaves and mix for a sec. 

- Once the masala is coated well and the chicken is cooked, off flame and delicious Chicken Ghee Roast is ready to serve with chapathi, rice, parata and so on…

- The best combination of Ghee roast is Neer Dosa..


Note: 

** You can also add the grinded mixture to the chicken and keep aside for 1-2 hours. 

- This dish can be prepared with Prawns too. Just replace chicken with Prawns.

- This is a very spicy dish, adjust your taste buds for this yummy dish.

- Add salt as per taste.

- Instead of adding jaggery, you can also add sugar.


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