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- From: reid@glacier (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: mod.recipes
- Subject: RECIPE: Indian-style yogurt chicken
- Date: 7 Mar 86 05:22:32 GMT
- Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
- Approved: reid@glacier.ARPA
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- .RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE CHICKEN-YOGURT M "11 Jan 86" 1986
- .RZ "YOGURT CHICKEN" "An Indian-style chicken dish with yogurt and red pepper"
-
- This fail-safe recipe yields a delicious Indian-style chicken dish. Serve it
- with rice and you have a meal. It makes wonderful leftovers\(emin fact, it
- tastes much better as leftovers.
- .IH "Serves 4"
- .IG "1" "frying chicken"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "vegetable oil" "60 ml"
- .IG "3" "medium onions"
- .IG "2" "garlic cloves"
- .IG "1 tsp" "cayenne" "5 ml"
- (red pepper)
- .IG "1 Tbsp" "coriander" "15 ml"
- (or less to taste)
- .IG "2 tsp" "masala seasoning" "10 ml"
- (see note)
- .IG "2 cups" "plain yogurt" "500 ml"
- .IG "\(14 cup" "clarified butter" "60 ml"
- .IG "2 tsp" "salt" "10 ml"
- (or less to taste)
- .PH
- .SK 1
- First prepare the sauce: Slice or chop the onions.
- Using a large heavy frypan that has a lid,
- saut\z\(aae the onions in the oil. When they are translucent and
- beginning to brown, add the garlic. When its moisture evaporates, add the
- cayenne, coriander, and masala seasoning.
- Add the yogurt. Lower heat and simmer 7 minutes,
- partly covered. Remove from heat.
- .SK 2
- Cut the chicken into chunks. If you are feeling decadent, then remove the
- bones from the chicken to make this a boneless-chicken dish.
- .SK 3
- Pure\z\(aae the onion-and-spice mixture in your food processor or food mill.
- Don't make it into baby food, but make sure there are no stringy pieces of
- onion left in it.
- .SK 4
- Over medium-high heat,
- heat the clarified butter until it starts to smoke, then dump in the
- cut-up chicken all at once. Stir continuously for 2 minutes, then saut\z\(aae
- for 3 more minutes, stirring occasionally.
- .SK 5
- Add the onion-and-spice pur\z\(aae to the cooking chicken. Add salt. Stir the
- mixture until it starts to bubble, then lower heat, cover, and simmer for 30
- minutes.
- .SK 6
- Let cool until ready to serve. The longer you wait, the better it will taste.
- .SK 7
- Cook some rice to go with it. Reheat over low heat, and serve.
- .NX
- Masala seasoning is an Indian ``general-purpose'' seasoning. Serious
- Indian cooks make their own, and no two are quite the same. The word
- \fImasala\fR means something like ``blend of spices''. Since this dish isn't
- trying to be authentically Indian, you can use most any store-bought mixture
- that you like, including ``Tandoori'' mixtures, ``curry powders'', etc.
- If you want to make your own, try some mixture of cardamom
- seeds, cinnamon, cloves, pepper, cumin, and coriander, suitably mixed and
- ground.
- .PP
- If you don't want to use clarified butter you can use any cooking oil.
- .SH RATING
- .I Difficulty:
- easy.
- .I Time:
- \(12 hour preparation, \(12 hour cooking, 1\-24 hours sitting.
- .I Precision:
- No need to measure, but be respectful of cayenne.
- .WR
- Brian Reid
- DEC Western Research Lab, Palo Alto, Calif., USA
- decwrl!!reid reid@decwrl.dec.com
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