How To Make Chicken Cafreal | Popular Goan Recipe | The Bombay Chef – Varun Inamdar

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Cafreal is a spicy chicken preparation consumed widely in the Indian state of Goa. The preparation originated from the Portuguese colonies in the African continent. Watch and learn this simple and easy Chicken Cafreal recipe and do post your comments below.

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Ingredients

Marinade
2 cups coriander leaves with their stalk
12 green chillies, destalked
1 inch stick cinnamon
1 tbsp black peppercorns
1/2 tsp cloves
1 bay leaf
1 tsp cumin seeds
Juice of 2 lemons
2-inch ginger root
8-10 cloves of garlic

1 kg Chicken
1 tbsp turmeric powder
Salt as required
4 tbsp oil

2 large potatoes
2 tbsp oil

Garnish
Lemon slices
Slit red chillies

Method

– Grind coriander leaves, ginger, garlic cumin seeds, black pepper, bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, green chilies and lemon juice in a mixer. Grind it into a fine paste.
– Add salt and turmeric powder to the chicken along with the green spice mix.
– Mix it well and make sure you coat the chicken well with the spice mix.
– Marinate the chicken for a minimum of 20 minutes.
– Heat oil in a pan and place the chicken pieces.
– Fry the chicken in batches.
– Use the spice mix water and add it to the chicken. Cover the pan and cook it for 15 minutes.
– In another pan, heat oil so as to cook the sliced potatoes.
– Add salt to the potatoes and cook them well. Also, keep turning the chicken pieces so as to cook it from all sides.
– Let potatoes get the golden brown color on both sides.
– Serve this authentic Chicken Cafreal hot! Enjoy 🙂

Host: Varun Inamdar
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Frango à Cafreal is a spicy chicken preparation consumed widely in the Indian state of Goa. The preparation originated from the Portuguese colonies in the African continent.It was introduced into the Goan cuisine by the Portuguese and the African soldiers serving under the Portuguese.
The generic preparation involves green chillies, fresh coriander leaves, onion, garlic, ginger, cinnamon, pepper, chilli, mace, clove powder and lime juice or vinegar. Chicken Cafreal is always made from whole chicken legs, flavoured with the spices and herbs mentioned and then shallow fried. Chicken Cafreal is usually accompanied by potato wedges and lime wedges. It is a popular dish in the bars and taverns of the state.
It is suspected that the dish originated in the Portuguese colonies in Africa, most likely in ʽMozambiqueʼ. “À Cafreal” means “in the way of the Cafres” and cafre was the designation of the inhabitants of Cafraria, the region of Southern Africa inhabited by non-Muslim peoples (compare English kafir). According to this hypothesis, the cafreal chicken derives from the piri-piri chicken typical of those places. In many contexts and locations in the world, chicken piri-piri and chicken cafreal designate the same dish, but in Goa they are two very different things, even in color, since the first is red

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