Whole Chicken Masala Roast

Ingredients for Whole Chicken Masala Roast:

1. Medium-sized chicken – 1 (As a whole)
2. Onions chopped fine – 2 cups
   Red chillies – 12, cut into 2 pieces each, after removing seeds
   Garlic chopped – 1 big spoon
   Ginger chopped – ½ big spoon
   Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
   Curd – ¼ cup
   Coriander, fried and powdered – ½ big spoon
   Cumin seeds, fried and powdered – A pinch
   Cloves – 6
   Cardamom – 4
   Cinnamon – 1-inch piece
   Nutmeg, powdered – A pinch
3. Salt and water – As needed
4. Ghee and butter – 1 big spoon each
5. Onions chopped fine – 1 cup
6. Ghee – ½ big spoon
7. Potato boiled and smashed – 1 cup
8. Green peas, carrot, beans – To decorate

How to prepare Whole Chicken Masala Roast?

1. Clean the chicken, remove liver and keep aside.
2. Slice the liver into thin pieces, and keep them separate.
3. Mix ingredients no: 2 together and marinate the chicken using it.
4. Allow it to rest for 3 hours.
5. Add salt and sufficient water, and cook the chicken.
6. Continue cooking till the chicken is well-cooked and coated with gravy.
7. Heat oil and ghee in a pan, fry onions and keep aside.
8. In the remaining oil, fry the chicken on a low flame and keep aside.
9. In the remaining oil, add the leftover gravy (after cooking the chicken) and boil it.
10. Turn the flame off and add fried onions.
11. Heat the ghee and add the chicken liver.
12. Sauté it and cook in a low flame.
13. 1When it’s done, add smashed potato and mix well.
14. Take two big spoons of prepared gravy and add to the cooked liver-potato mixture.
15. Transfer the contents to a small mould (when it’s hot) and press well.
16. Cut the chicken into big pieces and place it on a serving plate.
17. Pour gravy on its top and in the centre portion, flip the potato-liver mixture upside down.
18. Put green peas, carrots, and beans in boiled water, and then sauté in oil.
19. Decorate your whole chicken with these vegetables and serve.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine April 16-29, 2022

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