Coconut Butter Chicken Roast
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Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 500 grams
 
Ingredients
  • Chicken – 500 grams, bite sized pieces, cleaned and washed
  • Butter/ Ghee (clarified butter) – 2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves – 1 spring
  • Cumin seeds/ Jeera – 1 tsp
  • Coconut – 2 tbsp, grated or desiccated coconut
  • Shallot – 10, chopped finely
  • Green Chillies – 2
  • Garlic ginger paste – ½ tbsp
  • Turmeric powder – a pinch
  • Pepper powder – 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1tbsp
  • Chilli powder – 1 tbsp
  • Garam Masala Powder – 1 tsp
  • Coriander leaves – 1 tbsp, chopped, for garnish
  • Salt – as needed
Instructions
  1. Wash chicken and marinate with chilli powder, salt, turmeric, coriander powder and ginger garlic paste. Keep atleast for an hour.
  2. Now take a pan and add butter or ghee in medium flame, cumin seeds and when their color changes, add shallots, green chillies and curry leaves.
  3. After the onion is sautéed, add grated coconut and keep stirring and make sure it is not burnt. Now add the marinated chicken.
  4. Close it with the lid and not need to add water. Let the chicken cook from the water that chicken oozes out.
  5. Once it is almost 90% done, add pepper powder, garam masala and cook till the chicken is dry and roasted. Keep the vessel open and not close it with lid now.
  6. When it is perfectly roasted, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
Notes
1. Do not add water when you cook chicken. The chicken has to get cooked with the chicken juices itself.
Recipe by Relish The Bite at https://www.relishthebite.com/coconut-butter-chicken-roast/