Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Chicken Cafreal my Personal Favorite

This is one of my all time favorite kind of chicken recipes, its like the tandoori chicken of Goa, except of course its green in colour. Since I was a kid cafreal chicken has made my mouth water. To date it still happens and its time for you to get a taste of this mouth watering cafreal chicken.

Cafreal Masala Ingredients:

Cafreal Masala Ingredients

7 - 8 Green Chillies
8 Stocks Coriander leaves.
2 inch piece of Ginger
13 - 14 Flakes of Garlic
1 Table spoon Khus Khus
7 Peppercorns
1 Big Piece Cinnamon
1 Teaspoon Jeera
1/2 Teaspoon Haldi
A Small ball of Tamarind
4 - 6 Cloves

Procedure:

Cut clean and wash the chicken, apply the salt or some ginger garlic paste if you like and keep it aside.
Chicken with ginger garlic paste and salt
Grind all the ingredients into a fine paste. You can see the nice green color of the masala.
Ground cafreal masala
Apply it to the chicken
Add the cafreal masala to the chicken
Keep the chicken and the masala overnight. The longer you store it the better it is.
Keep the chicken overnight with the masala
Put a little oil and when hot add the chicken pieces.
Cook on slow fire
Add some butter and cook on a slow fire till done.
Add some butter as it gets ready
Serve with onions or salad.
Chicken cafreal with salad
Looks delicious doesn't it.
Mouth watering chicken cafreal!