Poultry Recipes - Spice-Stuffed Chicken 

Ingredients

• 225 g/8 oz papaya

• 1 chicken, skinned

• 3 onions, chopped

• 2.5 cm/1 in ginger root, chopped

• 3 cloves garlic, chopped

• 2 green chilies, chopped

• 4 hard-boiled (hard-cooked) eggs, chopped

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup blanched almonds

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup pistachios

• 50 g/2 oz poppy seeds

• 10 ml/2 tsp garam masala

• 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup ghee

• 2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped

• 300 ml/1/2 pt/1 1/4 cups natural (plain) yoghurt 8 salt

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Method:

1. Grind the papaya and smear it over the chicken inside and out. Mix together 2 onions with the ginger, garlic, chilies and eggs and use the mixture to stuff the chicken.

2. Grind together the almonds, pistachios, poppy seeds and garam masala and smear the chicken with the paste.

3. Heat the ghee and fry the remaining onion until browned. Add the chicken to the pan with the tomatoes, yoghurt and salt, cover tightly and simmer over a medium heat for 45-60 minutes until the chicken is tender.