CHYACHA ROSHUN LANKA ADAR ROSHE MURGI

I think it is my favourite Goalondo Chicken Curry that was hovering around my mind whilst doing this chicken dish. As you all know I enjoy either very light curries with chicken or batter fried, pakoras or oriental preparations with it. I am so unable to have thick, South Asian curries with chicken. It can be so we did so much of restaurant hopping once that I am totally into home cooked comfort food these days. If we are to have restaurant food, Indian restaurants are not in our top list. Okay, I do like solo trips to the eateries for appam, uttapam, chaats, etc. I am severely missing such solo trips of mine. The world situation seemed to have curbed my freedom, that is what irritates me. Else life is going smooth requiring me to spend way less than what actually I do. At this home, the son stays confined to his room; shows his face only when mumma knocks the door to serve him food. Last two weeks he did not call in any home delivers which means he can feel mumma's fear. The man sits at his work station all day, today is May Day and the television set is on. Yesterday, post lunch in the late afternoon I was sitting at the senior's designated space in the couch and was enjoying the view. It is difficult to stay confined to an apartment for long. Because we do not socialise much, we are not facing much trouble. Anyway, I could not take in much of fresh air, it started raining heavily.

I am going out for walks but only in the vicinity. There are this virus clusters in Punggol, there in Mustafa area; I am not even thinking of going for long walks and explore unknown lanes and by-lanes I usually do. The government have banned walking or exercising in the basements of any condominium. I release the stress reading and cooking truly. That is when it feels it had been good if I knew some handicrafts work or stitching, painting; it would have been good for me. In this scenario, what I am cooking is very simple, too simple is the chicken curry you see. I have marinated the washed boneless chicken in crushed garlic, slitted green chillies, chopped tomatoes, ginger extract and cooked in microwave. I named it CHYACHA ROSHUN LANKA ADAR ROSHE MURGI.

I continue with my plan of serving a normal breakfast with or without egg, a vegetarian or non-vegetarian lunch; if the lunch is non-veg, then a veg dinner; if the lunch is a veg platter, then a non-veg dinner is served. I will stick to this plan for quite sometime now. I am only able to get a limited supply of non-vegetarian stuffs at this time, I am unable to cook and eat sea fish varieties. We can eat the simplest of vegetarian meals if they suit our taste buds. Yesterday night, we had a simple dinner with "aatar porota o aloo-french bean-gazor bhaja". The son will not have achar, neither did he have the carrots & French beans. He picked the potatoes and had with porota. He finished his meal before mumma could serve herself. I prepared a total of seven porotas and asked Cristine to prepare for herself and me. Who else but mumma or the wife would have their leftovers?

However, this light curry chicken which I cooked in the microwave CHYACHA ROSHUN LANKA ADAR ROSHE MURGI is what all of us in the family enjoyed / will enjoy any time with bread & rice varieties. Let me share it on a May Day, let it be a tribute to the deceased soul of my favourites Irrfan Khan & Rishi Kapoor and even Chuni Goswami. I am never a football enthusiast, but the family is sports loving, the father and the brother next to him played for lesser known clubs in Kolkata, perhaps in Asansol too. My brother played cricket and me and our mother enjoyed watching the game of cricket and lawn tennis. The father was not a Bollywood Buff but me and the mother are; never mind I enjoy a bowl of "aam chirey muri kola" just like the father.

INGREDIENTS : 

CHICKEN : 500 GM [I USED BONELESS]
POTATO : 2 MEDIUM
TOMATO : 1 MEDIUM
SLICED ONION : 1 SMALL TEA CUP
CRUSHED GARLIC : 2TBSP
GINGER EXTRACT : 3 TBSP
SLITTED GREEN CHILLI : 5-6
TURMERIC POWDER : 1 TSP
SALT : AS REQUIRED
LEMON JUICE : 4 TBSP
OIL : 3-4 TBSP

PROCEDURE :

Wash the chicken pieces and marinate with the ginger extract, sliced onion, crushed garlic, lemon juice, oil, turmeric and salt for 2 hours.

Meanwhile, peel each potato and cut each in to 4 pieces, soak in water.

Wash and chop the tomato too.

After 2 hours, take the marinated chicken in a microwave proof big bowl. Cover it with a microwave proof lid and place inside the oven.

Microwave the content at 450*C for 10 minutes. Take out the bowl, add the chopped tomatoes and stir.

Microwave again for 450*C for 10 minutes.

While it is cooking, drain the water from the potatoes and marinate with little salt & turmeric.

Take out the bowl, add the marinated potato pieces and fold in well. Put it inside the oven and microwave at high (900*C in our case) for 13-14 minutes. We should be done.

I forgot to click the last two steps. Always remember to put on your gloves while cooking in an oven.

Enjoy with any bread variety or rice. We also had some "lau ghonto, mulo shaak & tetor dal" on the side that day.