1.
Cock
Indad
Ingredients: Cock about 1 kg. Masala
for grinding: half dessertspoon jeera, 6 to 8 dry chilies, 15 peppercorns, 1
piece turmeric, 8 cloves garlic; a small ball tamarind; a small piece ginger; 3
or 4 onions of ordinary size.
Method: Boil meat and fry in ghee
till brown. Then add masala and fry for
5 minutes. Add to it 2 small pieces of
cinnamon masala and fry for 5 minutes.
Add to it 2 small pieces of chinamon sticks and 4 cloves, a few mint
leaves, vinegar and salt to taste and about 2 teaspoons of sugar. Pork also may
be cooked this way.
2.
Fowl
Baffad
Ingredients: 1 chicken; 100 gms.
Radish; 2 cloves; half lime; 5 gms. Cus-cus; 3 tbsps vinegar; 2 green chillis;
1 small onion; 25 gms, oil or ghee; 1 small piece ginger; half coconut; half
big onion; 5 gms. Gram dal; 5 gms. Green peas; 6 – 7 pepper conrn; 3 cloves
garlic; 1 piece cinnamon; ¾ tsp. turmeric; salt to taste.
Method: Clean and joint the
chicken, Roast the gram dal and green peas lightly. Grind to a smooth paste with turmeric,
chinnamon, garlic, cuss-cus, cloves and peper corns, using vinegar. Separately
boil radish in water adding juiceof half a lime.
Saute the sliced ½ onion in
beated oil or ghee without discolouring.
Add ground paste and sauté for 3-4 more minutes. Add meat, ginger, (sliced) and chopped green
chillis, and fry for some more time. Add
salt and allow the water to come out make 3 extractions of coconut milk. Add third extract to meat and cook slowly
till meat is nearly done. Add third
extract to meat and cook and simmer till the chicken meat is nearly
tender. Add boiled radish. Now add the first extract of coconut milk and
a little vineara and salt to taste.
Remove from fire. Slice the small
onion and fry in a little butter in a frying pan along with curry leaves if
desired and pour over fowl curry and serve hot.
3.
South
coast chicken curry
Required: 1 medium-sized chicken;
2 onion, finely chopped;1 ½ inch piece
ginger; finely chopped; 2 cloves garlic, flaked; ½ tsp. turmeric; 3 tbsps.
Cumin seeds; 1 tsp. garam masala; 4
green chillies; 1 pint coconut milk extract; 2 potatoes; 1 spring curry
leaves ; salt to taste; ½ lemon 2 tbsps. Ghee.
Method: Joint the chicken. Heat the ghee and fry the onions and ginger
till light brown. Grind together with a
tablespoon of water, the cloves, turmeric, cumin seeds and garam masala and add
to the onions. Fry for three minutes.
Slit the green chillis and add together with curry leaves. Now add pieces of chicken and fry till well
browned. Pour in the coconut milk and
simmer gently till chicken is barely tender.
Add the peeled and diced potatoes and salt and cook till potatoes and
tender serve with boiled rice.
4.
Chicken
Baffatte (Baffad)
Ingredients: 1 medium sized
chicken: 1 tbsp. vinegar; 8 red, dry chilies; 1 inch piece ginger; 4 cloves
garlic; 1 tsp. coriander; 1 tsp, cumin seed; 3 tbsp, ghee; 450 gm. Cabbage
sliced; 450 gm. Potatoes; 450 gm. Small onion (Pickling variety); 125 gm. Tamarind soaked in hot water. Salt to taste. 1 cup thick coconut milk. 2
onions, sliced.
Method: joint the chicken grind
with the vinegar, chilies, ginger, garlic, coriander and cumin seed. Heat ghee and brown the sliced onions, add
ground spices and fry for 5 minutes. Add
chicken and enough warm water to cover the pieces of chicken and simmer for
half an hour. Peel and quarter potatoes
and add together with another 15 minutes.
Strain tamarind and add the juice and salt to taste. Cook for 10 minutes and add the coconut milk
and serve when chicken is tender.

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