Silken chicken
4 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | Boneless and skinned Chicken breasts | |
| ½ | Tap salt | |
| 2 | tablespoons | Lemon juice |
| 4 | tablespoons | Heavy cream |
| ½ | teaspoon | Garam masala |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Cayenne pepper |
| 1 | Clove garlic; Peeled And Smashed | |
| ½ | teaspoon | Ginger; peeled grated |
| ¼ | teaspoon | Ground roasted cumin seeds |
| Generous squeeze lemon juice | ||
| 1 | pinch | Salt |
| 1 | pinch | Ground black pepper |
| 1 | pinch | Ground roasted cumin seeds |
| 1 | pinch | Cayenne |
| 1 | pinch | Amchhoor powder (opional} |
Directions
Cut 3 diagonal slits across the tops of each chicken breast.Prick the chicken pieces with sharp point of small knife.Rub the chicken with salt and lemon juice. Leave for 15 mjinutes. Meanwhile combine the cream. garam marsala, cayenne,garlic,ginger and cumin in a bowl. Pour over chicken in a plastic bag and leave to marinate for 12 hours or over night Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Lay chicken pieces in a shallow non stick pan. On top of each piece,sprinkle lemon juice,salt,black pepper,garam masala,and cumin.
Place pan on top third of oven and bake for 15 minutes Recipe by: Madhur Jaffrey Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #759 by "tony fones" <tonyfontes@...> on Aug 24, 1997