Chicken Dopiajoo
Ingredients
At a glance
Cuisine
Bangla
Main Ingredient
Chicken
Difficulty
Easy
Main Course
Side Dish
Serves
5
- 2 lbs Chicken
- 6 pods Garlic
- 1 inch piece Ginger
- 1 tbsp (grated) Coconut
- 5 Green Chili
- 2 Small Cardamom
- 1 in Cinnamon
- 4 Cloves
- a pinch Mace
- a pinch Nutmeg powder
- 2 tsp Red Chili Powder
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 tsp Coriander Seeds
- 1 tsp Cumin Seed Powder
- 1 cut into small pieces Tomato
- To taste Salt
- 0.5 Cup Cooking Oil
- 3 Large Onion
- 2 Egg
Methods/steps
- Take one whole Cornish hen (or chicken), de-skin, wash and cut into 10 to 12 pieces. Hard boil 2 eggs and keep it aside.
- Grind all ingredients from garlic to cumin seed into a fine paste (called masala paste).
- Add the ground masala paste and salt to the chicken pieces and mix thoroughly.
- Chop onion finely. Heat oil and fry onion lightly. Add marinated chicken and cook for 5 minutes. Add the chopped tomato and eggs. Reduce heat and cook on slow fire with occasional stirring till oil starts separating and the chicken is tender.
- For Garnishing: Cut 1/2 onion into fine slices. Heat oil and deep fry the onion till golden brown.
- Sprinkle the fried onion. Serve hot with pulao, rice or paratha.
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