Description
Chicken Cafreal Recipe Goan Style is a delicious dish in demand at most Goan Restaurants. It’s a Galina cafreal brought by the Portuguese to Goa by making some changes in the recipe. This mouthwatering cafreal recipe is prepared with simple chicken cafreal masala ingredients. Check how to make goan chicken cafreal step by step.
Ingredients
Scale
For Goan Chicken Cafreal
- 1 kilogram (2. 2 lbs) chicken legs OR any chicken pieces
- ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 lime juice
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt (according to taste)
- 2 tablespoons oil
For Cafreal Masala
- 1 bundle fresh green coriander/cilantro leaves with tender stalks
- 8 large garlic cloves
- 1 ½ inch ginger piece (roughly chopped)
- 4–5 green chilies (adjust to taste)
- 6 cloves
- 1 ½ inch cinnamon sticks
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon black peppercorns
- 1 teaspoon coriander seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons goan vinegar / palm vinegar
- ½ teaspoon salt (adjust to taste)
Instructions
- To make goan chicken cafreal, first, pat dry the chicken legs. Take the chicken pieces and make deep slits on them. Apply the turmeric powder, lime juice, and salt. Keep it aside for 15 minutes.
- Grind together all the ingredients in chicken cafreal masala, to a fine smooth paste.
- Rub the goan cafreal masala all over the chicken leg pieces on all sides. Marinate it for at least 1 hour or for overnight in the fridge.
- After marination, heat 2 tablespoons oil in a heavy bottom pan. Fry the chicken on high heat for at least 1 minute. Then on low heat cover the lid and cook for 10 minutes on each side.
- Then open the lid, and cook till the chicken turns brown and cooks through. The cafreal masala should get thickened and well coated with the chicken. Remove the chicken from the pan and transfer it to a bowl.
- Serve Chicken Cafreal Goan Style with caramelized onions, fried potatoes, or goan wheat bread (poey).
Notes
- The longer the chicken is kept under marination, the chicken cafreal will become tastier.
- when the marinated chicken is removed from fridge, let it come to room temperature before cooking
- better to make slits on chicken, to absorb the cafreal masala and make it tastier
- this recipe is chicken cafreal dry, but you can prepare gravy or semi dry cafreal.
- Category: Chicken Recipes, Goan Recipes