Ingredients:

• 250 gm Chicken
• 2 medium Onions
• 1 tbsp Ginger and Garlic paste
• 2 dry Red Chillies
• 2 Green chillies
• 1 small Tomato
• 1 tsp Turmeric powder
• 50 ml Mustard oil
• 10 cm long bamboo (big diameter)
• 1 piece green Banana leaf
• Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Cut one onion into thin slices.
2. Soak dry red chillies and grind them to paste with the other onion.
3. Cut green chilli into 1 cm pieces.
4. Mix turmeric powder, salt as per taste and medium sized chickens in a bowl and place it in a pre-heated hot water bath for 30 minutes.
5. No water should be added to the mixture.
6. Remove bowl from bath and add onion-chilli paste, sliced onion, ginger-garlic paste, green chilli, sliced tomato, mustard oil and some coriander leaves to the mixture.
7. Mix them well for 10 minutes with your hand.
8. Wrap the mixture in a banana leaf into a cylinder. Cover all the sides with the banana leaf.
9. Tie it with a cotton thread so that it doesn’t unfold.
10. Place it inside the hollow space of a bamboo.
11. Cover both the open sides with mud and insert the bamboo in mild fire/coals.
12. Carefully watch it for 30-45 minutes.
13. When the bamboo is burnt completely, remove the mouth-watering delicious chicken and serve hot.

Recipe courtesy of P Mishra