Description
Goan Chicken Xacuti Recipe is a very traditional and occasional dish prepared in Goa. Goan Chicken xacuti recipe has ingredients like coconut, whole spices, nutmegs and star aniseed which gets better taste. I enjoy to prepare Goan Xacuti (Shakuti) at all occasions at my residence. Check our other chicken recipes
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 kg chicken cut into pieces
- 1 tsp turmeric powder for marination
- 1 tsp salt
Xacuti Marination Masala
- 3 inch ginger
- 10 cloves garlic
- 1 ⁄2 bunch coriander
- 4 green chilies
Xacuti Onion Mixture
- 1 tsp oil
- 2 sliced onions
- 2 green chilies chopped
- 2 inch ginger
- 10 cloves garlic
- 1 cups +1/2coconut grated
Xacuti Roasting Masala
- 3 inch cinnamon
- 3 cardomons peeled
- 1 tsp aniseeds saunf
- 1 tsp peppercorns
- 1 tbsp poppyseeds kuskus
- 2 tbsp coriander seeds
- 9 kashmiri red chilies
- 1 star anise
- 1 mace flower (javitri)
- 1 inch ⁄4nutmeg
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
Xacuti Cooking
- 2 tbsp oil
- 2 large chopped onions
- 2 slit green chilies
- 1/2 cup water
Instructions
- Grind together ginger, garlic and coriander, chillies to a paste.
- Apply salt, tumeric powder and the grinded paste to the chicken and keep aside for 30 minutes.
- In the frying pan put oil and saute the sliced onions, green chillies, ginger, garlic till the onions are tender (3 minutes)
- Add the grated coconut and fry for another 10 to 12 minutes till the onions are roasted or crispy brown and keep aside.
- Heat frying pan and roast kashmiri chillies for a few seconds and keep aside
- Then roast the cinnamon, cardomons, aniseeds, peppercorns, poppyseeds (kuskus), coriander seeds, star anise, mace flower (javitri), tumeric
- Grind together the xacuti onion mixtu re and xacuti roasted mixture to a fine xacuti masala paste.
- Heat 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan add chopped onions and green chillies and fry till onions are tender
- Add the marinated shakuti chicken pieces and nicely stir and cook on high heat for atleast 3 minutes
- Then add the grinded xacuti masala paste and cook for another 5 minutes and add water and cook for another 10 minutes till the shakuti chicken is tender
- Garnish the Goan Chicken Xacuti (Shakuti) with coriander leaves.
- Category: Chicken Recipes, Goan Recipes