Moghlai cuisine is a fusion of Persian and Indian culinary styles. It has rich sauces, butter based curries, ginger flavoured roast meats and sweets that are fit for the king! Moghlai food offers a rich fare that is irresistible. Moghlai food is aromatic, marinated as it is in masalas of ginger and golden fried onion.
👉Ingredients
Whole Skinless Chicken – 2 (1.5 kg)
Oil for frying and cooking – 400 ml
👉For Marination
Curd – ½ kg
Ginger Garlic Paste – 4 tbspoon
Lemon Juice – 2
Red chili powder – 3 tbspoon
Salt to taste
Red orange food color – 1 teaspoon
👉For Dry Roast
Whole coriander seeds – 2 tbspoon
Cumin seed – 1 tbspoon
Black pepper – 1 tbspoon
Cinnamon stick – 5 (1.5 inch long)
Green cardamom – 10 pieces
Black Cardamom – 3 pieces
Cloves – 7 to 8
Mace – 5 blades
👉For Fry
Ginger – 1 tbspoon (peeled and cleaned)
Almonds – 100 gms
Cashew nut – 100 gms
Onion – 3 big (finely sliced lengthwise)
👉For Garnishing
Onion Rings, Tomatoes slices, Coriander leaves and fried onion.
Method
👉1. Marinate chicken for 1 hr (as shown in video) and marination ingredients
👉2. Roast ingredients in big pan (refer roasted ingredients mentioned above) and remove from the pan.
👉3. Put oil in the same pan and fry (ginger, almonds and cashew nut) then remove from the pan
👉4. Now fry onion till golden brown, then remove onion from the pan
👉5. Make a fine paste of roasted and fried ingredients together expect for onion
👉6. Make a fine paste of half onion and keep the rest aside
👉7. Now fry marinated chicken in oil one by one in the same oil and same pan. Fry for 7 to 8 mins each whole chicken (as shown in video)
👉8. Place chicken in Microwave for 20 mins on 100 degree (as shown in video)
👉9. For gravy cook all the paste ingredients in the same oil for 5 to 10 mins.
👉10. Now gravy and chicken both are ready
👉11. Place chicken in the gravy and garnish and serve (as per the video)
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Recipe By:-Shagufta Jafferi.
