Sesame grilled chicken
Sesame grilled chicken is flavourful and absolutely delicious.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
For the chicken marination:
- 8 chicken drumsticks
- 1 tbsp fresh coriander leaves with stalks
- 1 tbsp fresh spring onion (scalion)
- 2 cloves garlic grated
- 1 red chilli
- 1/2 tsp green peppercorns use white and pink or red if you can't find the green.
- 1/2 tsp black peppercorns
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp sesame oil
For the paste:
- 1 cup spring onion roughly chopped
- 1/2 cup mixed coriander leaves, roots and stalks
- 1 leaf sawtooth coriander
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tsp green peppercorns use pink/red and white if you can't find the green.
- 2 tsp coriander seeds
- 1 tsp raw rice grains
- 1/2 cup water
For the curry:
- 1 small onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- 2 red chillies
- 1 tsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 tbsp groundnut oil
- 1 tsp salt
Instructions
For marination:
- Using pestle mortar or a blender, make a coarse paste of all the ingredients. Marinate the chicken for 2 hours. Grill the chicken in the preheated oven 180C/350F for 18-20 minutes when you start making your gravy. Keep it aside.
For gravy:
- Make a smooth paste of all the ingredients listed under the paste using water and keep it aside.
- Make a rough paste of onion, garlic and red chillies.
- Heat the groundnut oil in a wok and add the onion paste. Fry till its cooked and the rawness is gone. This should take about 5-7 minutes on medium flame.
- Add in the green paste and cook it for 10-15 minutes till it reduced and completely cooked and you see oil coming out from sides.
- Season it with salt and toasted sesame oil.
- By this time your chicken should be grilled, if you want you can add the grilled chicken in the gravy and cook it for 3-5 minutes.
- I live to serve the chicken and gravy on the side with rice or flatbreads.