Chicken Garam Masala
All Indian and Pakistani cookery depends on herbs and spices. Every household has their own spice mixes. "Curry", which means "sauce", is the best-known Indian culinary term. Curries may be prepared in dozens, if not hundreds, of ways. They are, in fact, a whole category of cooking involving meat, sea-food, and vegetable dishes (although Hindus do not take beef)
Garam Masala, whose literal Hindi meaning is "hot or warm spices", is a blend of ground spices: Peppers, cinnamon, basil, coriander, garlic, celery seed, cumin, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, garlic, turmeric...
Commercial spice mixtures may also contain dried red chili peppers, dried garlic, ginger powder, sesame, mustard seeds, bay leaves, and fennel.
Indian cooking the Swedish way is not that spicy. A lazy day in my kitchen, when I wish to spice up a chicken, Santa Maria has already done the spice mixing job. So, I only pretend this is an Indian dish.
INGREDIENTS:
Serves 3-4
* 4 chicken fillets
* 1 pkg Santa Maria Garam Masala Spice Mix
* 2 dl (200 ml) crème fraiche
* 1 dl (100 ml) water
* chopped parsley
METHOD:
1. Preheat oven to 200° C [390-400° F]
2. Put chicken fillets into a narrow ovenproof dish.
3. Blend the spice mix with crème fraiche and water.
4. Pour the mixture over chicken.
5. Bake in the middle of the oven until chicken is fully cooked, ab.30-40 minutes.
Sprinkle with parsley, serve with rice and a mixed salad.
4 comments:
Hi Karin, Great chicken recipe - we're just the same here, we like pretend Indian food too! I can't get your Santa Maria brand, so I'd use this instead:
In a mortar, put the seeds from two cardamom pods, half a teaspoon of fennel seeds, two cloves, half a teaspoon of cinnamon and of ginger, and some freshly grated nutmeg. Bash it with a pestle until you have a sticky rich mess.
That comes from my recipe for aromatic prawns, which you can find here: http://joannasfood.blogspot.com/2007/01/aromatic-prawns.html
Best wishes,
Joanna
joannasfood.blogspot.com
Thanks for visiting,Joanna. I wrote it down - your recipe for aromatic prawns.
Santa Maria is Scandinavia´s biggest brand of spices and they have got a lot of Thai-, India- and Tex Mex products.
I love the smell of those fantastic exotic spice mixtures!
Karin, I've seen some Garam Masala chicken recipes and they look really good. I've started to try spices a bit more lately and I intend to use others I'm not familiar with.
I love how the chicken looks tasty, not white like a piece of Styrofoam.
Or worse, Patricia, tastes like Styrofoam, although I´ve never tasted that - but I can imagine..
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