Gora Chicken

Name: Gora Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: Lemon or lime juice; 5 bulbs garlic, crushed, or 2 tbsp crushed garlic; 1 skinned chicken, cut into smallish pieces; ½ cup water; 2 tsp garam masala; 2 tsp ground black pepper; 2 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp hot chilli powder; 3 tbsp vegetable or sunflower oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

About

Ingredients

1 skinned chicken, cut into smallish pieces
5 bulbs garlic, crushed, or 2 tbsp

Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Whiz all ingredients except the chicken, water and oil and beat them to make a paste. It should have the consistency of tomato purée. Add extra garlic and lemon or lime if too dry.
Heat oil in a karai until it is just hot enough to sear food but not flaming hot.
Stir-fry the chicken in oil for eight minutes.
Add the paste and water, and