Alabaster chicken

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Curries & Bugles: A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj

By Jennifer Brennan

Published 1990

  • About

Indian weddings are the greatest show on earth for “people-watchers” and connoisseurs of good food, although nowadays they are not as extravagant as they were in the times of the Raj. Then, celebrations went on for days and the wealthier the Indian family, the more lavish the festivities and feasts. Less wealthy families would borrow money from the moneylenders at exorbitant rates to marry off their daughters, and spend the rest of their lives repaying the debt. It was a matter of pride, an