MARRAKESH ROAST CHICKEN

MOROCCAN RECIPE

INGREDIENTS:

4 Chicken breasts [with skin preferred]
2 onions
2 Garlic clove
1/2 Cup parsley
1 tspn mint leaves [ pudina ]
1/4 cup coriander
1 tspn cumin seeds
1 tspn Kashmiri chilli powder
3 tspn lemon juice
5 tspn butter
Pepper & Salt to taste

PREPARATION TIME: 30 minutes

Serves 4

PREPARATION:

Apply lemon juice, kashmiri chilli powder, salt & pepper to the chicken pieces. Keep it aside for 30 minutes. Grind the onion, garlic, parsley, coriander leaves, coriander seeds, cumin seeds into a coarse paste [ not a smooth paste ]. Apply the prepared paste to the chicken. Add some butter in a pan and Roast the chicken until it cooks. Ocassionally add some butter during the roasting process.

Garnish it with mint leaves. Serve hot.

RICE PAYASAM [RICE PUDDING]

INGREDIENTS:

1 litre milk
1 cup white rice
1/4th cup coconut milk
2 cups Palm jaggery or jaggery [according to sweetness]
Few rasins and chopped cashewnuts [fried in 2 tspn ghee]
1/4th tspn cardamom powder[elaichi]
Few saffron threads soaked in 1 tspn milk
Pinch of salt

PREPARATION TIME:30 minutes
Serves : 2

PREPARATION:

Wash the rice well. Soak it in milk for 15-30 minutes. Take a vessel cook the rice and milk until the rice is tender and the milk has reduced more than half in volume.Take the vessel away from the fire and add the palm jaggery [ jaggery is added away from the flame as otherwise it may curdle].Now add coconut milk and stir it for 5 minutes. Now add the saffron soaked in milk and mix it well.Add a pinch of salt.Also add cardamom powder.Finally add the fried rasins and cashewnuts.And mix it well.

Garnish it with rasins.You can also garnish it with rose petals. Serve it hot or cold.

THAI CHICKEN FRIED RICE

INGREDIENTS:

2 Cups white rice [basmathi preffered]

1 Cup chicken[boneless prefered]

1 Cup coconut milk[thick]

1/2 Cup roundly sliced bell peppers [capsicum]

1/2 Cup shredded carrots

1 tbspn ginger garlic paste

1/2 Cup spring onion chopped

1 tsp red chilli paste

1/2 cup oil

salt to taste

PREPARATION TIME: 30 minutes

PREPARATION :

Soak white rice in water for 30 minutes.Heat oil in a pan now add ginger garlic paste, spring onions, bell peppers, carrots and stir fry it. add the chicken pieces and saute it. Now add the coconut milk , red chilli paste and cook the chicken for five minutes and then add the white rice, add enough water to cook the rice, salt to taste and let the rice and chicken cook.Thai chicken fried rice is ready.

Garnish it with bell peppers , carrots and spring onions. Serve hot.