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Mami’s marinated Chicken

Again Badi Mami’s A-grade recipe, for making chicken, so simple, so delicious, and so easy; just marinate it and then let it cook. Now dont you think it deserves 5 stars?

Ingredients:

10 pieces chicken (I like to use legs and thighs, but whole chicken is great too),
salt as per taste,
3-4 tbsp yoghurt,
garlic cloves 3-4 pcs (grated) (’lasan’)
ginger paste 1/2 tsp
Green cardomom (5-6 pcs, ground) (’choti elaichi’)
Brown (big) cardomom (3 big ground) (’badi elaichi’)
cinnamon stick 2-4 small pcs, (’daalchini’)
1/4 tsp turmeric (’haldi’)
1/4 tsp cumin powder (’jeera’)
1/4-1/2 tsp chilli powder (’mirchi’)
fresh cilantro, few handfuls, finely chopped,
1 big onion chopped into thin long pieces,
3-4 tbsp oil for cooking
Clean and wash the chicken, and put it in a strainer, to drain off the excess water for about an hour. Put all the ingredients listed above, on the chicken (except oil and cilantro) and mix well overnite, or a day for best flavor.

Then to cook, just heat few tbsp oil in a pot, and then let it come to a boil first, then finally cook on medium heat, stirring sometimes, till all the water is gone, and it looks shiny/oily. Taste, add some salt if desired, and garnish with cilantro, eat with pita/rotis or rice.

January 17th, 2007