Saffron Chicken
Total Time: 55 mins
Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Ingredients
- Servings: 4
- 1/2 teaspoon saffron
- 3 lbs chicken pieces
- 3 tablespoons ghee or 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons oil
- 1 large onion, julienned
- 2 teaspoons finely grated gingerroot
- 1 -3 fresh chili pepper, or to taste, red or green
- 2 -3 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
Recipe
- 1 toast the saffron strands in a dry pan over a medium heat for about 1 minute taking care not to burn them.
- 2 cool, and then crush them with the back of a spoon.
- 3 dissolve them in 1 tablespoon of very hot water.
- 4 heat the ghee (or whatever you use), and gently fry the onion, garlic, ginger and chillis until the onion is soft and golden.
- 5 add garlic.
- 6 add the dissolved saffron to the pan with the cardomon, then add the chicken.
- 7 turn the chicken pieces in the mix, coating well.
- 8 add the salt, cover and cook for 25 minutes until the chicken is tender.
- 9 uncover the pan and continue cooking, turning often until the liquid is almost gone.
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