Receta Smoked Chicken
There are some
recipes from
my early
days of blogging that definitely need a
revisit.... This is one such Chicken curry recipe.... This Smoked chicken is
one of my best
and easiest chicken preparations; I make it very
often and it compliments very well with Indian flat breads or pulav’s. It’s
also a hit at dinner parties.... But may be due to the pathetic photos I
posted earlier, I felt it didn’t get the attention it
deserved, so recently when I made it again I took step by
step pictures.... when ghee is poured
on the hot charcoal, the resultant smoke
gives the chicken a nice flavor.... This is a healthy chicken preparation and
you can also marinate
and smoke the chicken ahead of time and bake it in the oven just before
serving.....
Murgh Ke Sooley
/ Koyla Chicken Curry / Smoked Chicken Curry Recipe
(Source ~
Vanitha Pachakom)
Preparation Time – 25 mints
Marination Time
– 2 hours
Cooking Time –
30 mints
Ingredients:
- Chicken pieces-1
- kg
- First Marinade:
- Ginger paste- 2
- tbsp
- Garlic paste – 2
- tbsp
- Salt- 1 tbsp
- Lime juice- 1
- tbsp
- Second Marinade:
- Fried onion
- paste-100gm
- Kashmiri red
- chilly powder - 1 ½ to 2 tbsp
- Turmeric
- powder-1 tbsp
- Ginger- garlic
- paste- 1 tbsp
- Thick curd,
- beaten-120gm
- Garam masala
- powder-10gm
- Salt- 1 tbsp
- For Smoking:
- Cloves-5 nos
- Cardamom-5 nos
- Melted Ghee-15gm
- Red hot Coal-1
piece
Method:
Marinate chicken
with first marinade and keep aside for ½ hour.
After ½ hr add
the second marinade and marinate for at least one hour or overnight.
Transfer the
marinated chicken into a deep dish and keep a tight lid or aluminum foil handy.
Meanwhile heat a
piece of coal on fire till red hot.
Keep a small
steel curry bowl in the middle of the chicken pieces and put cloves and
cardamom in it. Carefully place the red hot coal inside the curry bowl and pour
melted ghee on top of the hot coal and quickly cover the dish with lid or
aluminum foil so that minimum fumes escape.
Leave the dish
unopened for at least 15 minutes to get a deep intense smoked flavor to the
chicken.
Pre-heat oven to
180°C. Take out the curry bowl and bake the chicken in the pre-heated oven for
25 minutes or until the chicken is cooked thoroughly. Garnish with chopped
onions and serve hot.
This is best
served with Indian breads / Ghee rice / Jeera rice.