Malabari Kozhi Nirachathu Recipe - Malabari Stuffed Chicken Recipe

Am gonna delight you all sharing a wonderful chicken recipe from Malabari Muslim kitchen........... Take care you won't bite your fingers....!!!!

Ingredients
Full dressed chicken
Turmeric Powder      -  3 tsp
Chilly Powder           - 8 to 10tsps (May add more to make it more spicy)
Pepper Powder          - 2tblsp
Coriander Powder     - 8Tblsp
Garam masala / Chicken Masala - 4tblsp
Lemon Juice             - 1 Lemon
Salt                            -  To taste
Chopped onions       -   8no.s
Chopped Tomato      -   6no.s
Ginger and Garlic paste-  4tsp
Sliced potatoes and Carrots (Optional while baking) -2 or 3 in no.s
Boiled Eggs               - 1 or 2 ( according to the cavity in chicken)
Curry leaves               - For aroma and garnishing


Method

• Marinate the chicken with chilly powder, turmeric powder and lemon juice. Refrigerate it for 2hours. The chicken if lined with a sharp knife will give better results.

 

• The chicken was then fried in oil filled in a frying pan with one-third of oil.

• The sides should be turned every now and then to ensure better frying.

• The legs of the chicken could be tied with a kitchen twine.
• After frying it should be kept aside for getting filled.
• In another pan sute ginger garlic paste,chopped onions,tomato,curry leaves and all the masala powders mentioned above in a low flame.
• The boiled eggs could be added as such or after slicing.
• Thus, our filling is ready and it should be filled inside the cavity of the chicken and stitched up.
• The chicken could be then kept in oven at 250*C for 20minutes by keeping chicken breasts facing down in a greased baking tray.
• It could be supplemented with veggies on sides if necessary
• The tray should be sprinkled with oil.
• While baking care should be taken to turn the chicken to all sides so that it gets well baked.

• Meantime gravy is to be prepared by suting ginger garlic paste, chopped onions, tomatoes and all masalas available in our list.
• The gravy should be thick enough such that the no extra water is added to it, other than the juice of tomato added to it.
• The chicken which is baked is then topped with the gravy prepared and kept in oven again for the perfect blending of the gravy to the interiors of the chicken.
• Another 10- 15 minutes baking is required for the necessary masala to blend in.
• It could be decorated with onions chopped carrots along with curry leaves.