Hello, community, friends, and fellow food lovers! I'm excited to share a recipe I made for @qurator as part of the hive chef theme, focusing on chicken bits and bobs.
In India, when you buy chicken, you often have the option to purchase a live bird, and the seller will clean and cut it for you, giving you a full chicken with all the edible parts. However, my husband isn't fond of the liver, legs, or neck,(I grew up eating these parts of chicken but now I am spoiled) I usually pay extra to buy just the breast and leg pieces from a well-known chicken seller. He’s very cooperative, but for this faver, I have to bring him a perfume bottle from Norway each year.
After a long time, I went to buy chicken last Sunday, but I found that his shop was closed. I tried another seller, but he wasn’t particularly interested in selling me boneless chicken. So, I ended up purchasing a whole chicken from him. I requested that he not cut it into small pieces as they do, and I received all the chicken parts separately, including the neck, liver, gizzard, legs, and backbone.
I thought it was a great opportunity to create a post for @qurator.plus we had workers for construction here can share with them that day's meal. In the end, I made Chicken Xacuti, an easy Goan-style chicken dish using coconut.
I separated the boneless and the more bony and unusual parts.
I cut them in small bits.
For marinate used
salt, lime, turmeric, and chili powder for rubbing on chicken pieces.
The chicken bits got salt turmeric, lime, and chili powder. I covered this and kept it aside. This process was done after we came back from the market around 11.30 am.
In the evening I started making Xacuti.
Ingredients
700 grams chicken
2 green chilies
1 garlic
5 cm ginger
1/2 coconut
handful coriander
2 tbsp coconut oil
2 onions
2 tomatoes.
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp chili powder
grated coconut
sliced 1 onion
peeled garlic
cleaned and chopped ginger
In a pan, after heating 1 tsp oil I stirred in sliced onion and garlic. cooked until translucent.
Added grated coconut, green chilies, and ginger and roasted until the coconut gets crispy.
At the end added fresh coriander and switched off the heat. kept it to cool down, After cool down I ground it in a mixer.
While the mixture cooling down, I continued my recipe.
finely chopped 2 tomatoes, 1 onion, peeled 1/2 garlic, washed coriander.
In the pan, in 1 tbsp oil and I added chopped onion with garlic.
I used that pan to fry onion and almonds for my other preparations.
Added garam masala and chili powder.
added chicken pieces.
Stirred continuously for 3-4 minutes.until the chicken released fat.
Added chopped tomatoes and stirred well.
time for pouring water..
Added 1 cup of water covered and cooked.
Meanwhile, I ground roasted coconut and fried onion garlic ginger, and coriander using a mixer.
The mixture of coconut, onion, ginger garlic, and coriander in the mixer jar.
After ground it in a fine paste.
Poured the paste into cooked chicken.
stirred well and cooked until gravy/water dried out. you can keep it like this, but I wanted to make it dry so easy to serve with chapati.
After 10 minutes it became like this.
Sprinkled more coriander and served with chapati.
thank you very much. please do not share my post on any other platform without asking me. This is my work my rights on it.