This Goan Roast Chicken 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 caramelized.
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 facilitate evaporation. Your Goan Roast Chicken is ready.
Note the above image still needs the gravy to disappear.
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Tried out the chicken roast recipe but found measuring out the spices rather difficult. Imagine it won't turn out as well as your mother's! 🙂 Could you also give us measure in tsp/ nbr/ inches?
Hi Clyde,I had prepared this and turned out well..thanks to you and your Mum ….Keep up the good work!! …Noella (Mum's cousin's daughter).
we are glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Thanks for the appreciation 🙂
Hi Clyde, I made this dish for Easter lunch and it turned out awesome! Please thank your mother and thanks to you too for an awesome recipe, simple directions, wonderful pictures. Louise
Thank you everyone for your thanks, support and information 🙂 Its all appreciated
Being a Goan myself & a beginner in cooking i really appreciate the efforts u making here…Thanks alot this really helps m going to try smethg new every once a week….
Hi,
I am currently at US and happened to visit this website…i like this recipie .its so simple and looks yummy . I am gonna try it for sure.
Thanks
Ann
Sounds awesome.. but this isn't roast chicken. this is chicken stovetop cooked in a pan.
I'm goan and so miss my home cooking. Hard to do with my schedule and time. But when I can l love to do it.
Thanks for this fabulous website.
Does the marinate of onions & red chillies not to be added after the chicken is brown on both sides?
Hiiiii… i want to try yr recipe…cld u pls email me the measurement of the dry masala in tsps or cups…it will be easy for me…kind regards..Sunita Jacob..my email id is sunitajacob@hotmail.com….thking u in anticipation
I was brought up on Goan food and love to cook it and eat it. These recipes are truly authentic, and even here in Australia I can get all the ingredients for that famous Goan aroma and taste. Thanks!
how do i make the 5 spice masala
What a fantastic site! Am not someone who likes to venture into the kitchen but your site with the appealing background and superb step by step images make me feel just a little more confident that I will manage one the maid goes home for her annual leave in the next few days 🙂
Lovely recipe.. marination in progress… 🙂
@ lily
we have the recipe for goan fish curry at this link https://www.goanfoodrecipes.com/2009/04/goan-fish-curry.html
It has all the ingredients required for you to make your dry masala and keep. For the prawn and drumstick curry you can use the prawn and bhenda curry recipe available here https://www.goanfoodrecipes.com/2008/12/prawn-and-lady-finger-curry.html
and replace the lady finger with the drumsticks hope this helps…
I hv shifted to goa as for the schooling of my special child. Before coming to goa from mumbai vasai he was a veg. but now he likes goan food so much that he cant do without it thanks for the lovely receipies put up ., I would highly appreciate if u could help me with the ingridents of ready to cook fish masala where i just hv to add onion garlic and the ready to cook masala grind and mk fish curry. Iwould also be grateful if u tell me the receipe for prawns and drumstick curry
Loved discovering ur blog…what a breath of fresh air to come across authentic recipes …far, few and n between on the cyber world i assure u!! Cheers for the great effort!! Just to let u know I am inspired to make the Goan Roast chicken with A whole big Turkey here in the US.An entire bird with skin in an oven ,smearing sum of the masala over & in between the skin & flesh, marinating it for 24hrs at least( given turkey is a fairly big bird & requires a lot of flavour). Roast it in an oven with baby potatoes & carrots with frequent basting with left over masala & melted butter till its golden brown all over! Do u think it will still work? Want to surprise my American & American Indian friends with a true Fusion Spread!!!
hi! i love roasted chicken, i'm bored of my own marination recipe, so, i wanted to try something new… 🙂 your recipe looks yummy!…
kitty from Dubai
Clyde, congrats and thanks to you, your mum, and whoever else is involved in putting together these great recipes. I'm an Anglo ex-Bombay and Goan food was always my favourite so it good to have the recipes presented so simple and easy. Keep up the good work
@ marinating anonymous
it depends on where you live (the temp) and how long you want to marinate for… if its not gonna get spoilt u can keep it out
@ anonymous
its mentioned in the ingredients 🙂 tablespoons sorry for the delayed response!
you asked to put 2 spoons of five spice masala, but you did not mention teaspoon or tablespoon, please let me know as I need to try this recipie….looks yummy.
you asked to add two spoons of five spice masala but you did not mention teaspoon or tablespoon please let me know this as I want to try this recipie…….looks yummy.
just want to know if you marinate it, should the chicken be kept in the fridge or outside.
Excellent recipe. Tried it and it turned out awesome. i am a goan living in the gulf. Was missing my moms food….so tried this recipe.Memories of goa came flooding back….if only i had a kingfisher beer to go along with the chiken!! Viva!!
Absolutely delicious recipes, that look and taste totally authentic. Is there any chance that you could give us quantities of the ingredients in terms of teaspoons or spoons or numbers rather than using the metric system of grams etc gets tricky trying to measure grams for haldi/ cloves etc.
Trying this recipe as i type – Marination sime and smells good already – Looking forward to dinner already!!
Keep up the good work and Happy New Year from Sunny Dubai.
Andre
Sir I wd like 2 know why u have not added ginger in d roast wen ginger is an integral part of any roast.why, chicken being no exception.