Name: Chicken with apricots and potato straws
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: India
Ingredients: 1 tsp green cardamom pods; 1 tbsp caster sugar; salt; 600 g boned chicken in 2cm cubes; juice of 1 lime or lemon; 4 tbsp ghee or vegetable oil; 3 tomatoes, finely chopped; 200 g dried apricots; 4-6 dried red chillies; 1/4 tsp chilli powder; 1 tsp finely chopped coriander leaves; 2 large potatoes, peeled and cut into julienne; 11/2 tsp cumin seeds; 2 X 2 cm cinnamon sticks; 6-8 cloves; 3 tbsp chopped coriander; 5 cm piece of root ginger, grated; 1 tbsp coriander seeds; 5 cm cinnamon stick, broken into pieces; 2 onions, finely sliced; vegetable oil, to deep-fry; 6 garlic cloves, crushed; 1/4 tsp turmeric

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Reza's Indian Spice

By Reza Mahammad

Published 2012

About

A traditional Parsi dish, this is always cooked at special occasions. The potato straws are a traditional Indian garnish. They don’t act as an accompaniment - they aren’t chips! - but instead add a wonderful crisp texture to the chicken. Serve with Saffron Rice for a fabulous meal for entertaining.

Ingredients

For the Chicken

200 g dried apricots
3 tomatoes, finely chopped
4 tbsp <

Asia
India
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Before you begin, soak the apricots in 250 ml warm water for up to two hours. Remove half of them and blitz to a purée in a blender or food processor with 150ml of the soaking water. Reserve the remaining whole apricots and their soaking water. Set both aside.

Soak the potato julienne in wa

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Ingredients

For the Chicken

Method

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