Halwai May 21, 2025

Ingredients:

• 1 kg – chicken, cut into pieces
• 2 cups – Chicken stock
• 1 – Chicken stock cube
• 1 tsp – Ginger paste
• 2 tsp – Garlic paste
• 3/4 – Green chilli paste
• 2 tbsp – Butter
• 3/4 flakes – Garlic chopped
• salt to taste
• 1 packet – spaghetti, cooked and drained
• 4 tbsp – mayonnaise
• 4 tbsp – Tomato ketchup
• 1 tsp – Red Chilli hot sauce
• 1 tsp – mixed herbs (thyme, oregano)

Method:

  1. Boil the chicken with the ginger, garlic, chilli paste and salt and 3 cups of water till almost cooked.
  2. Separate stock from chicken, mix in the chicken stock cube and keep aside.
  3. In a non stick vessel, heat butter, add in chopped garlic, herbs, put in the chicken pieces and fry nicely for 2/3 minutes till brown.
  4. Add in the sauces, stock and spaghetti and mix well.
  5. To give smoke, take 3/4 pieces of charcoal and make them red hot over the gas.
  6. Put these in a piece of foil and keep the foil inside the vessel on top of the spaghetti/chicken.
  7. Pour 1 tsp of very hot ghee over the hot charcoal and quickly cover the vessel with a lid tightly putting a heavy base on top of the lid.
  8. After a few minutes, remove the foil of charcoal and serve hot.

Recipe courtesy of Nafisa