Mangalore chicken ghee roast
A lip smacking and delicious, roast chicken recipe made in ghee, originating from Indias southern state Karnataka. This can be served as an appetizer and even as a side dish with rice/Indian flatbreads
Equipment
- Shallow cooking pot
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken curry cut pieces
- 4 tbsp ghee
- 1 large onion finely chopped
- 7-8 fresh curry leaves
- 1 inch ginger roughly chopped
- 6-7 cloves garlic
- ½ cup yoghurt
- 1 tbsp tamarind pulp
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- 1 tbsp cumin seeds
- ½ tbsp fenugreek seeds
- 1 tbsp fennel seeds
- 1 tsp cloves
- ½ inch cinnamon
- 8 Kashmiri dried red chilis
- 1 tsp black peppercorns
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 tbsp jaggery
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Marinate the chicken with the yoghurt, turmeric and lemon juice. Leave it for an hour
- Roast all the whole spices - dried chilis, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, fennel seeds, cloves, cinnamon and black peppercorns - on a medium low flame until fragrant. Remove and let it cool down
- Then grind all these together along with the tamarind pulp, ginger and garlic to a fine paste. Use as little water as you can while grinding it. This is your ghee roast spice paste
- Heat 2 tbsp of the ghee. Once it melts, add the chicken and sear it on a high flame until no longer pink. Remove and set aside, along with the juices
- Heat the remaining ghee and fry the onions until light brown. Then add the spice paste and cook until the ghee separates from it*
- Now add the chicken with it's juices, curry leaves, jaggery and salt. Cook covered over medium flame util done
- Keep stirring in intervals. You can add a little bit of hot water while cooking, if you see the curry paste drying out
- Remove from heat and serve the delicious Mangalore chicken ghee roast hot, as is or with any Indian flatbreads. Enjoy!
Notes
- Kashmiri chilis add the colour to the chicken. The heat comes from the peppercorns
- *You can add a few tablespoons of the chicken juices, if it gets too dry while frying
- kg - kilogram
- tsp teaspoon
- tbsp - tablespoon