Family recipeNon-VegMainHyderabadi
Adrak Lehsun Chicken
Amma's notebook · Main course, page 3
Chicken marinated in lots of ginger and garlic with herbs and spices, then cooked in the same pan.
Method
- Marinate the chicken with the ginger-garlic, haldi, namak, mirchi, dhania pd, zeera pd, garam masala, gosht masala, oil, kothmir, podina and hari mirchi. At least ½ hour; overnight is best.
- Cook in the same pan it marinated in, adding a little water if needed, until the chicken is tender.
- Keep as much gravy as you like or dry it completely. Add a little lemon juice.
Serve with
Hot, with naan or rotis.
Amma's notes
- Lots of adarak laisan is the main base.
- The same method works for prawns, gosht, chops, fish etc.
- Other chicken dishes Amma lists: chicken khorma, methi chicken, ambada chicken, palak chicken, tomato achari chicken, bhuna chicken.
Typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Her Hindi and Urdu words are kept as she wrote them.
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