Chicken Cafreal
published by Priyanka D on Feb 21, 2010
A spicy chicken starter for all chicken lovers!
Ingredients:
- 1 full chicken
- 2 medium onion – chopped
- 4 large tomatoes – halved
- 6 medium potatoes – boiled and halved
- 6 green chillis
- 1 n 1/4 inch piece ginger
- 10 cloves garlic
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 3 tablespoon oil
- salt as per taste
Method:
- Finely paste ginger and garlic.
- In a bowl mix together ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice, green chillis, half chopped onions and all the spices adding salt as per taste.
- Mix the chicken pieces in this mixture and marinate for 2 hours.
- Heat oil in a pan on medium flame and saute the rest of the onion for 3/4 minutes.
- Now add the marinated chicken and fry them turning over both the sides till they are brown and thoroughly cooked.
- In a separate pan, heat 1 tablespoon oil and fry potatoes and then very lightly the halved tomatoes.
- Serve the chicken hot with the fried potatoes and tomatoes.
- Enjoy!
# 1 by chellsy
February 21st, 2010 at 3:35 am #
wow this is yummy
# 2 by Temjen Imchen
February 21st, 2010 at 5:57 am #
Wow real stuff to serve as starter.
# 3 by Darla Cooke
February 21st, 2010 at 10:12 am #
Sounds yummy!
# 4 by Joie Schmidt
February 21st, 2010 at 9:10 pm #
That looks incredible!
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# 5 by chefpete41
February 21st, 2010 at 10:29 pm #
i would be interested to know where the name Cafreal comes from. most dishes are named after the places they come from or their ingredients, but i havnt heard of this. good recipe!!
# 6 by Priyanka D
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:19 am #
@chefpete41
This is an Indian dish – more particularly a dish from GOA, a west-coastal state in India. This dish was influenced by Portugeese as they dominated this place for quite a long time. I didn’t find anything in the internet as to where this word “cafreal” came from.
# 7 by swatilohani
February 24th, 2010 at 5:58 am #
yummy
# 8 by bleep
May 13th, 2010 at 7:36 pm #
oooh…mouth watering. what’s garam masala? i’d like to prepare it but i’m not sure i know where to find that ingred.