Indian food, irrespective of region, has a unique quality: It can incorporate any ingredient — irrespective of whether it is local or foreign-origin.
Today’s recipe is an example of that: It incorporates wine into a kind of chicken curry, resulting in a whole new product!
Try it out with rice.
Ingredients:
- Chicken: 500 gm
- Red wine: 80-100 ml
- Tomato: 200-250 gm
- Onion: 200 gm
- Cumin powder: 20 gm
- Garam masala: 10-15 gm
- Coriander powder: 10-15 gm
- Chilli powder: 10 gm
- Water: 400 ml
- Cream: 50 gm
- Sugar: 50 gm
- Soy sauce: 40-50 ml
- Ginger-garlic paste: 20-30 gm
- Salt: To taste
- Cloves: 4-5
- Cooking oil: 30-40 ml
Prepping the ingredients:
- Marinate the chicken in the red wine. The wine’s acidity gives the chicken a very distinct taste and hue. It almost looks like red meat!
- Blend the onions into a paste. Store in a bowl.
- Give the tomatoes the same treatment. Store in a separate bowl.
Wine chicken cooking steps:
- Start by pouring the oil into a wok or a cooking utensil of your choice, and put it on medium heat till it’s runny like water.
- Now, put in the cloves and let them release their flavours for a few seconds.
- Then add the onion paste. Some stirring leads to it becoming brown and reducing in quantity.
- Now in goes the tomato paste. A lot of stirring is needed now, till everything is a single colour.
- Add the coriander, cumin, and chilli powders and the salt now. Let the ingredients combine.
- It’s time for the chicken to make an entry. The leftover wine from the marinade is kept aside for the moment.
- In a few minutes, pour in the water and let it reduce, so that the chicken cooks a bit more.
- After the gravy becomes thicker, add the cream and the soy sauce. Keep stirring.
- Finally, add the garam masala.
- Keep the lid on and simmer a little more. And, your wine chicken is ready!
Serve hot with rice, and enjoy!
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