Sunday, June 21, 2015

Pot Roast Chicken

This is my mom's recipe. It is a clear winner every time I put it on my party table.

All you need

One chicken cut into small pieces
6-7 cloves of Garlic
1 1/2 inch piece of Ginger
2 Onions ground to a paste
1 cup of Vinegar
1/2 cup Oil
2-3 Whole Dried Red Chilies
1 pinch whole cumin seeds
Salt


Method

  • Make a paste of ginger and garlic.

  • Wash chicken and pat dry chicken, there should not be any water left.

  • Marinate the chicken with ginger-garlic paste and vinegar for at least 30 minutes. Longer the better.
  • Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add cumin seeds and whole red chilies. Add onion paste.
  • After the onion is fried, add chicken along with its marinade.
  • Add salt, mix and cook in the pressure cooker till chicken is done. DO NOT ADD WATER.
  • Open the pressure cooker lid, and there will a lot of water all released by the chicken.
  • Turn on heat to high flame and reduce water till there is none left. Then the trick is to keep on frying and stirring often and burning up the chicken a little to bring out the taste. In Bengali, it is called "char charano". Done!

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