Mangalorean Chicken Ghee Roast

Chicken Ghee Roast is a popular Mangalorean delicacy. Authentic ghee roast chicken is an explosion of spicy and tangy flavours, made with lots ghee, dried chillies, spices, tamarind and jaggery. Perfect when served with rice or neer dosa.

After making desi ghee with butter last week, a super spicy and delicious mangalorean style chicken dish with ghee was bound to happen. Here is the step by step recipe of Ghee (clarified butter), if you haven’t checked it out yet.

Chicken ghee roast was introduced to us a few years back by our brother in law (jijaji). A true Mangalorean and an amazing cook. He had made it for us one fine day when we were in India. We literally licked our plates off. It was just so delicious. Perfectly balanced spicy, tangy and so flavourful.

And since then ghee roast chicken has become our family favourite. I don’t make it very often but whenever I do, I give a miss to the other side dish to go with rice. Chicken ghee roast is so addictive that we finish of our whole meal just with this it. Actually we end up eating a whole lot more. Haha!!

How to make Authentic Chicken Ghee Roast?

Chicken ghee roast is fairly easy and simple to make. Simply marinate the chicken with yogurt, lime juice, ginger-garlic paste, turmeric, salt and marinate for at least 1 to 2 hours or even better overnight in the refrigerator.

Dry roast dried red chilli (I used a mix of Kashmiri chillies and hot variety of dried red chillies. You can adjust the dried red chilli according to your taste. We like it hot so used quite a lot), coriander seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds, peppercorns and grind it into a fine paste along with garlic and tamarind.

Heat ghee (be generous with the ghee) ina thick bottomed pan and fry the onions until translucent. add the masala paste and fry until the raw smell disappears and the ghee sppes through the masala. Now add the marinated chicken along with the marinade and cook on medium heat until the chicken is cooked through, the masala dries out and a lot of ghee oozes out. Finally add jaggery and curry leaves and mix every thing well. Serve it with Hot rice or Neer dosa.

Mind you the amount of chillies used this is not for faint hearted.

Here are delicious Chicken recipes you can have a look at

My vegetarian friends don’t be disheartened at all. Please do try this ghee roast with paneer. It tastes amazing, you are gonna love it!

I hope you enjoy this Mangalorean Chicken Ghee Roast as much as we do.

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Bon Appetit!!!