Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chicken cafreal. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chicken Cafreal is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chicken Cafreal is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken cafreal using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Cafreal:
- Make ready 1 kg Chicken (Drumsticks or maryland cuts)
- Take 1/2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- Get 1 tbsp lime juice or vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take as required Cafreal Masala
- Take 1 cup tightly packed coriander leaves and stalks
- Take 4-6 hot green chilies (adjust as per spice tolerance)
- Prepare 1 & 1/2 inch piece ginger
- Make ready 8-10 fat cloves of garlic
- Make ready 2 tsp poppy seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 inch stick of cinnamon
- Take 3-4 cloves
- Prepare 8-10 whole peppercorns
- Make ready 1 lime, juiced or 1 tsp tamarind pulp or 1 tsp vinegar
- Take to taste Salt
- Take 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- Prepare 1/4 cup oil to cook add more if needed
Steps to make Chicken Cafreal:
- Wash and pat dry chicken before preparing the marinade. Apply ginger garlic paste, salt and lime juice and keep aside for 10 mins
- Prepare the cafreal masala; make a smooth paste of the coriander leaves & stalk, poppy seeds, dry spices (cinnamon, cloves, cumin and peppercorns) as well as the ginger and garlic.
- Apply half of this marinade on the chicken and keep it in the refrigerator for an hour to overnight if required.
- Before cooking, take chicken out and bring to room temperature.
- Heat a non-stick pan with oil and gently lower the masala coated chicken pieces in.
- Sear the chicken on high heat for 2 to 4 mins before turning down the flame.
- When chicken starts browning on both sides, add the reserved marinate, and 1/2 cup of water. Mix well.
- Add a lid and cook until chicken is tender and the masala has dried up.
- Switch off the flame when masala has cooked chicken well and chicken is cooked through.
- Serve Chicken Cafreal with rice or bread, and some baked or fried potatoes on the side.
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