Baked Chicken Delight

Ingredients for Baked Chicken Delight:

1. Chicken cut into big pieces – 1, full chicken
2. Garlic paste – 1 tablespoon
   Ginger paste – 1 tablespoon
   Curd – 1 tablespoon
   Chilli powder – 1 tsp
   Lemon juice – From half a lemon
   Ghee – 1 tablespoon
   Salt – For taste

For Masala:

3. Onions – 4
   Coriander powder – 1 tablespoon
   Chilli powder – ½ tsp
   Fennel powder – ½ tsp
   Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
   Garam masala powder – ½ tsp
4. Refined oil – ½ cup
5. Salt – For taste

How to prepare Baked Chicken Delight?

1. Marinate chicken using ingredients no: 2.
2. Allow it to rest for 6 hours.
3. Grease a glass bowl using ghee and transfer the chicken along with the masala to it.
4. Cook chicken in the oven.
5. Heat oil in a pan and add a few chopped onions.
6. Deep fry them and remove from the oil.
7. Sauté the remaining chopped onions till they turn a light brown colour.
8. Add all powders except garam masala, and keep sauting till a thin layer of oil appears on the surface.
9. Add half a cup of water, and boil it till oil appears in the gravy.
10. Crush half the amount of fried onions & garam masala powder and add to it.
11. Turn the flame off.
12. When the chicken is 3/4^th done, take it out of the oven.
13. Pour the gravy on top and sprinkle garam masala powder.
14. Put it back in the oven and cook till the masala turns brown colour.
15. Decorate with fried onions and serve hot with any main course dish of your choice.

Courtesy: Grihalakshmi July, 2010

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