| TRADITIONAL
ENGLISH RECIPES
CHICKEN
DOPIAZA
Once again,
this is yet another TASTY curry dish and it is one which
really has
the most mouth watering flavour.
Serve with
glasses of light beer (lager) or with a non expensive white wine. You
may
need a jug of chilled water with a few lemon slices floating in it.
This
dish can turn out a little hot.
This recipe
will make enough for 8 good sized portions. Divide everything by 2 for
a standard meal.
Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
meat or 8 chicken portions
300 g onions
4 green chillies
4 gloves of
garlic
50 g ginger
10 g turmeric
75 g garam
masala
150 ml vegetable
oil
125 ml water
salt to taste
Method:
1. Cut the
chicken meat into small pieces and remove any bones.
2. Peel and
chop the tomatoes (Plunge them into boiling water to make the skins
loose).
3. Peel the
onions, then divide them into 2 separate piles. Chop one pile of onions
into small pieces. Cut the onions from the second pile into halves.
4.
Grind the chopped onions,
chillies, garlic and ginger together. Blend these into a puree and mix
with the garam masala.
5.
Heat all the oil in a
frying pan and fry the half onions until they start to turn brown.
Remove
the cooked onions from the pan and stand on one side to drain.
6.
Add the puree, made in
step 4, to the oil in the pan and fry it. Make sure you keep stirring
it
well until the colour darkens and oil starts to appear around the edges
of the pan.
7.
Now add the slices tomatoes
and cook until the liquid has evaporated from the pan - but take care
not
to burn the contents.
8.
Add the turmeric, the
chicken pieces, the water and a little salt. Stir constantly and once
the
whole mixture is well mixed - then cover and cook on a low heat for
about
30 minutes or until the meat is cooked.
9.
Now add the onion halves
(that you fried earlier in step 5) and cover and simmer for another 5
minutes.
Serve on a bed of rice with
chapatis. |