Goan Roast Chicken

This Goan recipe is fairly simple to make, it involves the Goan five spice masala. The chicken roast goes well in sandwiches when shredded and can also be eaten as a snack when made with bits as its a dry dish.

Ingredients for the Five Spice Masala:

Haldi 50 Gms
Pepper 25 Gms
Cumin Seeds (Jeera) 50 Gms
Cinnamon 15 Gms
Cloves 25 Gms

Grind them into a fine powder for use, note that you do not need the entire quantity that you have made but just some of it, you can store the remaining five spice masala for later use.

Ingredients for Goan Roast Chicken:

1 Kilo Chicken
1 Table Spoon Garlic Paste
2 Table Spoons Five Spice Masala
Juice of 1 Sour Lime
1 Tablespoon Vinegar
Salt as Per Taste
1/2 Onion
3 Whole Kashmeri Chillies
Oil
1 Teaspoon Sugar

Goan Roast Chicken Procedure:

Wash and clean the chicken bits, remove most of the skin, you can keep a little for the sake of some oil. Marinate the bits with garlic paste, two spoons of the five spice masala, the 1/2 onion chopped the 3 red chillies, vinegar and lime juice for six hours to an entire day.
After your done with the marination heat some oil in the pan with the sugar until it gets reddish brown basically caramelised.Then add the bits of chicken only with the chillies for now.
As you can see in the picture below the masala is not added, the chicken cooks without the masala and gets that nice roasted texture.Once you get this texture after a few minutes of cooking you need to turn the chicken bits around so the other side gets roasted as well.
Add some water to the masala and pour it into the pan, something to not it may be better if you cook it in something that has a lid like a deep dish.
Put the lid on and let it cook for a while.You can turn the bits once again and slice the big bits so the insides get done as well.
Cook the bits until it gets nice n dry, you can remove the lid to fascilitate evaporation. Your Goan Roast Chicken is ready.Note the afove image still needs the gravy to disappear.

Godshe the Simple Goan Dessert

Godshe reminds me of my good old school days when I would come back home for tea wondering what mother would have read to gobble up, Godshe was one of those finest tea time surprises she had in store.

Godshe is like paisum to a certain extent except it does not have the dry fruits et all, its sweetness is derived from the unique pyramid shaped Goa jaggery.

Godshe Ingredients:

1 Cup Rice
1/4 Cup Moong Dal
Thick and Thin Milk of One Coconut
Jaggery Two Squares Minimum you can put Extra if you want the Godshe sweeter or of a darker color.
Pinch of Salt


Godshe Procedure:

Soak the Rice and Dal overnight then cook it in the thin coconut milk.

Keep cooking till it becomes soft and make sure its on a slow flame.

Once you cook it for a little while and the rice and dal has softened you can add the required amount of Goa jaggery.

Now once again this will require some patience as you keep stirring it and wait for it to thicken, slower the flame the better.

Make sure the mixture does not get stuck to the bottom of the dish, when you find the mixture has thickened enough you can add the thick coconut milk.

Once again its time to stir up some magic, add a pinch of salt as you keep stirring, no getting stuck at the bottom of the dish!

By now you would find the Godshe appearing darker in colour and it gets thicker as you stir, until it gets that perfect colour and viscosity.

Now you can get the Godshe off the fire and pour it into trays for cooling, not too deep a centimeter thick is good. It gets solidified to a certain extent.

This is a some like it hot some like it cold dish, I alternate between the two, you go ahead and try it whichever way you like.

Goan Meat Curry with Vegetables

A while since a new recipe has been posted here, today I have for you a delicious Goan meat curry. You can use either Beef or Mutton, its tastier with Mutton we are preparing it with Veal.

Lets embark on another journey that will tickle your taste buds. You would need to make a masala for this curry lets take a look at the ingredients for the meat curry masala.

Goan Meat Curry Masala Ingredients:

6 - 8 Kashmiri chillies, you can knock off seeds of 2 - 3 chillies
1/2 Coconut
4 Garlic flakes
1 Tea spoon Cumin seeds
1 Table spoon Coriander seeds
1/2 Tea spoon Turmeric powder
2 Tea spoons Poppy seeds (Kus Kus)
5 - 6 Pepper Corns
1/4 Tea spoon Fenugreek seeds (Methi seeds}

All the above ingredients have to be roasted with 2 teaspoons oil and then ground with 4 flakes of garlic and a small piece of ginger.

Grind until its liquidated becoming nice and fine. Once your masala is ready you can keep it aside. You can also make the masala while the meat is boiling.

Goan Meat Curry Ingredients:

1/2 Kilo Meat
2 Onions
1 Big Tomato
2 Teas spoons salt
A dash of Vinegar


Vegetables as per Choice:


We used small portions of Ivy Gourd (Tendli), Carrots, a small Potato, French Beans, Cauliflower and Cluster Beans (Gawar)

Slice and dice the vegetables, as you can see the vegetables bellow are sliced and diced randomly as variety is the spice of life!


Goan Beef Curry Procedure:

Wash and clean 1/2 kilo meat and put it to a boil along with two onions one big tomato and 1/4 inch julians of ginger.

You can add salt as per your taste, we do not use too much salt in our food, but you can put in as much as you require, the base is two tea spoons and you can add them in parts one while cooking the meat and one after mixing the masala.

When the meat is cooked 3/4ths add the masala and give the whole curry a boil. Add the amount of water you require for a curry, not too much or it will become too thin.

Once you add the masala and water give the whole beef curry a boil. Test how tough the meat is and when nearly cooked add the vegetables to keep them nice and crunchy.

Remember once you add the vegetables to mix the curry up gently so that you avoid breaking the vegetables into pieces.

Ok so your currys nearly ready, you can add the remaining or required salt, then just a dash of vinegar to boost the taste and your meat curries ready to eat yipee!

Thats another authentic goan recipe, keep tuned there will be one more coming up this month. Till then picture yourself lying on your favorite beach in Goa sipping on some Urrac, of course you are getting tanned in the summer sun :) Viva la Goa!