Chicken Vindaloo Recipe
The Portuguese dish, Vindaloo, is traditionally cooked with red wine. It was indianized by the local Goan cooks with the substitution of palm vinegar for the red wine
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Ingredients
- 1/2 kg of Chicken
- Freshly ground black pepper
- ghee or butter
- Salt
- 3 garlic peeled and minced
- 2 tbsp of yellow onions finely chopped
- 2 tbsp of ginger powder
- 2 tbsp of Cumin powder
- 2 tbsp of yellow mustard seeds
- 1 tbsp of ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tbsp of ground cloves
- 1 tbsp of turmeric
- 1 1/2 tbsp of cayenne pepper
- 1 tbsp of paprika
- 2 tbsp of Lemon juice
- 2 tbsp of distilled white vinegar
- 1 tbsp of brown sugar
- 2 tbsp Salt
- 2 cups of Water
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Instructions
- Mix the chicken well with salt and pepper. Fry it in the ghee until it turns golden brown.
- Transfer the chicken to a pan, and add garlic and onion and sauté it until golden brown
- Now add ginger, cumin, mustard seed, cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, cayenne, and paprika. Saute it for a few minutes. To this, add two tbsp of dried tamarind mixed in hot water. Make sure that you work it through a sieve to discard the tamarind seeds.
- Allow the chicken to cook for a while for about 45 minute and partially remove the lid during the last 10 minutes or so to thicken the sauce. Make sure that you stir it couple of times while cooking.