Mango chicken kadai(wok cooked chicken)

By foodiva

Ingredients

• Ingredients:
• Recipe Type: Chicken, Main/Entree
• Author: Recipes ‘R’ Simple
• Prep time: 25 mins
• Cook time: 20 mins
• Total time: 45 mins
• Serves: 4
• 1 chicken : skinless, with bone – cut into small pieces.
• 10 cashew-nuts
• 1 large green mango – (Unripe)
• 2 generous tsp garlic
• 2 generous tsp ginger
• 2 generous tsp green chilli (mild finger length green chillies)
• 2 tsp garam masala
• 4-5 cloves (the spice – laung)
• 2 onions sliced
• 1 1/4 tsp salt
• 2 rounded tsp coriander powder
• 1 1/2 tsp rounded kashmir chilli powder
• 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
• handful of coriander leaves
• 3 Tbsp sunflower/vegetable oil
• You will need a large wok(kadai) with a lid and a small piece of charcoal.
• Method:

Details

Servings 1
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 38mins
Adapted from recipesaresimple.com

Preparation

Step 1

Rinse the cut up chicken pieces very well.
Drain for 10 minutes.
In the small jar of your mixer/grinder , grind the garlic to a smooth paste first.
Remove to a ceramic dish. In same jar continue to grind the ginger next. Remove.
Next the green chillies. Remove.
Peel the mango. (Keep a few small diced pieces WITH SKIN for garnish) Chop up the skinned mango into small dice. Take 4 Tbsp of this and grind to a smooth paste as well. Reserve the chopped skinless mango for later and the diced mango with skin(for garnish).
(When grinding the above ingredients, Do not add water. If you find it hard to grind, add a little more of the ingredient at hand and scrape down from the sides. Alternatively, use a pestle and mortar to pound to a fine paste.)
Take half the quantities of the garlic paste, ginger paste, green chilli paste and garam masala as well as the pureed mango and 1 tsp salt.
Marinate the chicken with these as well as the whole cashew-nuts in a large bowl, covered in the fridge for 1-2 hours at least.
Keep all the ground ingredients, covered to prevent any discoloration.
When it’s time to cook, keep the chicken out at room temperature for 10 minutes.
Move the chicken to the sides of the bowl and place a small steel tumbler/cup in the centre.