Chicken Cafreal

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Chicken Cafreal is a culinary favourite from beautiful coastal Goa. This popular chicken recipe is made by blending ingredients together like green chillies, coriander, ginger and garlic together with vinegar and tamarind marinating it overnight before it’s shallow fried. Cafreals unique blend of spices and herbs makes it unique to other Indian green spice blend preparations like Hara kebabs that use a green masala base too. 

Chicken Cafreal
Chicken is slathered in a luscious green paste made by grinding herbs, chillies and spices together with coconut vinegar and tamarind paste, before cooking. In this special collaboration, Karen Ahmed gets a surprise call from Aunty Maggie who accuses her of captivating her husband Silu. Aunty Maggie is played by the very talented Rozzlin Bhavnani. Watch full video: https://youtu.be/UYh64lkovwY#Goan #Cafreal #Indian #Curry
Posted by Kravings Blog on Thursday, December 10, 2015

Chicken Cafreal with a dose of Aunty Maggie

In this special episode I make something green and delicious Chicken Cafreal, while Aunty Maggie, attacks me for taking away her precious Silu. Comedy and Cuisine collide in this one.My video: https://youtu.be/UYh64lkovwYAunty Maggie's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oODEZe0XCdU#cafreal #goan #Indian #curry

Posted by Kravings Blog on Thursday, December 10, 2015

My Nana used to often make this dish but I took it for granted. I now appreciate the blend of spices, vinegar and tamarind together with coriander and chillies that make this a very unique recipe.

Ingredients

1 tsp Cumin

1 tsp black Peppercorns

1 tsp Cloves

1 inch stick of Cinnamon

2 tsps of Khus Khus(White Poppy Seeds)

1 tsp Haldi or Turmeric

1/4 cup Coconut Vinegar

8 cloves of Garlic

1 inch stick of Ginger

4 large green Chillies

1 large bunch Coriander(stems and leaves) about 4 cups

1 inch piece of Tamarind soaked in 1/4 cup water

10 – 15 skinned Chicken drumsticks

Process

Roast the whole spices – Cumin seeds, Peppercorns, Cloves, Cinnamon and Khus Khus together in a dry pan and leave aside to cool

Grind to a powder once cooled

In a food processor add the Vinegar and roughly chop the chillies, garlic and ginger and blend

Add 1/2 the coriander, the spices a tsp of Turmeric and some water to help it blend

Add the second half of the coriander, 1- 2 tsps of salt and the soaked Tamarind(be sure to remove any seeds)

Skin and clean your chicken and make gashes in the meat

Pour the mixture over the Chicken and leave to marinate for a few hours and preferably overnight

Shallow fry on all sides and bake in the oven for 30 mins