Chicken Mosallam

Recipes are very significant for building our health. Healthy snack recipes are needed for our health. So we should take easy recipes. Chicken is very important food all over the world. There are a lot of items are prepared by chicken. Chicken Mosallam is one of them.  Every body likes this recipe. The people of Bangladesh, India and Pakistan choose  Chicken Mosallam a lot. It is easy to prepare. Some ingredients are necessary to prepare this recipe. The cooking process is as follows;

Ingredients:

• 2×1 kg (2 lb) chickens
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons ground garlic
• 1 tablespoon ground turmeric
• 2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 2 teaspoons ground poppy seeds
• 2 tablespoons raisins
• 1 cup natural yogurt
• ½ cup thinly sliced onion
• ¾ cup ghee or oil
• 4 sticks 2.5 cm piece cinnamon
• 6 cardamoms
• 1 teaspoon chilli powder
• 1 tablespoon sliced almonds
• 1 tablespoon sliced pistachios
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• A pinch of yellow food colour
• Salt to taste

Method of preparation:

1. Skin and gut the chickens. Cut off the necks and truss the chickens.

2. Fry the sliced onion golden brown in ghee. Strain and remove. Spread on a plate to cool. Combine the ground spices and mix in the yogurt.

3. In the remaining ghee fry the chickens for 2-3 minutes. Add the yogurt mixture, salt and ghee. Cover and cook over a low heat until meat is tender. Crush the fried onion. Add the sugar, colour and crushed fried onion to the chicken.

4. In a baking tray spread the gravy and arrange the chickens on it keeping the breast side upward. Sprinkle with pistachios, almonds and raisins.

5. Put the tray in a moderately hot oven for about 30 minutes.

Serve hot with salad and plain pollao and parata. Yields 8 servings.