Gota Chicken: Spicy Indian Chicken Recipe

Chicken

oi-Anwesha Barari

By Anwesha Barari

Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:54

Gota Chicken, the spicy Indian chicken recipe is well worth a try for the incredible blend of contrasting flavors it brings to your palate. Hailing from the North-eastern part of the sub-continent, it a chicken recipe best complimented by steamed rice.

The significance of the word 'gota' in this Indian food recipe comes from its meaning in Assamese, which is 'whole'. This Indian curry is cooked with a combination of grounded and ungrounded whole spices. Whatever spices and ingredients you add to this chicken recipe have to be in be grounded and ungrounded in a 50-50 proportion. Lets take a look at the details of this Indian chicken recipe which has the amusing name of Gota Chicken.

Ingredients:
1. Chicken ' kilo
2. Tomatoes 2 (One paste and the other cut into 4 pieces)
3. Garlic (10 cloves)
4. Ginger (25 grams)
5. Onions 4
6. Peppercorns 8
7. Cloves 5 (laung)
8. Cinnamon sticks 4 (dal chinni)
9. Cardamom 6 (elaichi)
10. Bay leaves 2 (Tej patta)
11. Red Chilli powder (2 table spoons)
12. Coriander powder (2 table spoons)
13. Cumin powder (2 table spoons)
14. Dry Red Chillies 2 (whole)
15. Cumin seeds (whole 2 teaspoons)
16. Coriander leaves (25 grams)
17. Garam Masala (2 teaspoons)
18. Vegetable oil (3 tablespoons)
19. Salt and sugar to taste

Procedure:

• To prepare Gota Chicken, marinate chicken, grind 1 tomato, 2 onions, 5 cloves of garlic and half the ginger into a paste.
• Cut the remaining onions and tomato into four pieces and add to marinade.
• Add the remaining garlic cloves whole and make thin slices of the ginger and add to marinade.
• Add peppercorns, cloves, cinnamon sticks, cardamom, cumin seeds, dry red chillies, bay leaves and coriander leaves to the marinade.
• Add garam masala, coriander powder, cumin powder and red chili powder to the marinade.
• Add salt to taste and a dash of sugar
• Leave the chicken to marinate for 2 hours.
• After this, heat oil in a deep pan and add the marinated chicken to it.
• Cook the chicken till the water dries out and the gravy looks well done.
• Add two cups water and then, cover and cook for ten minutes.

Your Gota chicken is ready with its amazing undertones of various spices melting in to give produce a delicious effect. This Indian Chicken recipe is famous for its delicate flavors, so sit back, relax and take your time to enjoy it.