Roasted Chicken

Roasted Chicken

INGREDIENTS:

1 Chicken (2 or 3 lb weight)
4 Potatoes
i tablespoon whole Coriander

seeds
handful of whole blanched Almonds
1 teaspoon Red Chillies, whole Cinnamon, Cardamom, Cloves and Pepper
1 medium Onion
1/4 teaspoon fine Saffron
2 Green Chillies
1/2 cup Butter
1/2 tablespoon whole Cumin
1 1/2 tablespoon Ginger & Garlic
1 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Bread crumbs
3 tablespoons of Tamarind

  juice
1/4 cup Tomato juice

Method:

Fry onions in a little oil to a pale golden color and drain and cool. Crush with back of spoon and set aside. Soak breadcrumbs in tomato. Crush coriander and cumin coarsely. Fry potatoes a golden color.To ginger/garlic, add saffron, crushed cumin and coriander, salt and red chillies . To half of this add the soaked breadcrumbs, tamarind, fried onion and cut up green chilies. Stuff this mixture together with the whole almonds and one or two potatoes inside well cleaned and washed chicken. Smear rest of the mixture on outside of chicken making gashes in the thicker meatier parts. In a large flat pot, heat butter with the remaining chilly, cinnamon, cardamom etc. and place the chicken carefully and brown it well on all the sides. Add about 1/2 cup water and steam gently or bake in oven whichever is preferred. 15 minutes before chicken is done add potatoes and cook till all well done. Serve with baby onions in a little butter.