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Monday, 25 August 2014

Chicken Kabiraji..........Chicken Coverage Cutlet

Its a typical Bengali recipe. Its very heavy , a street food that can be served as light meal or as evening snack. Its actually chicken covered by ingredients and then inserted in egg and deep fried in oil, it best goes with onion salad and mustard sauce (Kasundi).

INGREDIENTS:
Chicken breast (2-4) cut as bigas possible with a width of 5mm each.
Grated onions (3).
Ginger paste (2 TBs), Garlic paste (1 Tsp).
Chopped green chillies (4-5).
Chopped coriander a bunchfull.
Cornflour (1 TBs).
Salt to taste.
Cumin powder (1 TBs).
Lemon juice (1 whole lemon).
Eggs beaten (4).
Oil for deep frying.
Rock salt.

PROCEDURE:
Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients except oil, rock salt and chicken properly. As the ingredients form a proper mixture marinate the chicken pieces in it, check that chicken on both sides is covered by the mixture batter uniformly for 30-40minutes. One can even refrigerate it.
Now heat oil adequate for deep frying the chicken pieces properly, wok should be bigger enough so that oil don't splash out while frying.
Now beat eggs in a bowl along with salt and red chili powder, dip the marinated chicken pieces in the beaten eggs and immediately leave then in the heated oil by shaking your hands so that egg over the chicken forms a thread like shape and adds crispyness to it. Lower the flame now so that it gets fried very well from within. Fry them till golden brown and remove them in an absorbent paper.
Serve it with onion salad, sauce or kasundi. Many like is just as it is.

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