Kitchen With a Purpose: Chicken Stuffed Potato Gravy

Chicken Stuffed Potato Gravy

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Chicken Stuffed Potato Gravy recipe is prepared with minced Chicken Stuffing cooked with spices and other ingredients and stuffed inside Potato.The stuffed Potato is then fried and simmered in an Onion Tomato based gravy til done.Its yummy and tasty.

Preparation Time - around 20 min
Cooking Time - around 1 and 1/2 hour.

Ingredients for Potato Stuffing:-

1. Dry roasted and ground spice mixture(this will be required both in the gravy and in the stuffing)

[ 1 and 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds+ 1 and 1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds+ 2-3 green cardamoms+2-3 cloves + 1/2 inch cinnamon + 1/2 of a black cardamom or boro elaichi + pinch of Javetri or Mace and Nutmeg or Jaiphal ]

2. About 2 cups minced Chicken or Chicken Keema
3. 1cup minced Onion
4. 1 teaspoon of crushed and chopped garlic
5. 1 teaspoon crushed Ginger.
6. For stuffing I will add about 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of the dry roasted spice mixture [point 1]
7. 1 tablespoon tomato sauce/ketchup
8. Salt as per your taste ( remember that the gravy will also has salt so use accordingly)
9. 1/4th teaspoon of black pepper powder/golmorich
10. 1/4 teaspoon each of Paprika or Kashmiri chilly powder + Cayenne or red chilly powder + turmeric powder ( use chilly powder little more or less as per your heat tolerance )
11. Make a paste of all purpose flour with water for sealing the stuffed potatoes. ( the paste must be little thick ).
12. 1/4 th cup of the scooped potato ( the inside scooped up flesh of the potato which we have to scoop out for stuffing ,out of it just reserve 1/4th cup of the potato scoop )
13. Oil for frying the Potato,making the stuffing and frying the sealed stuffed potato( around 2 teaspoon each time ) [ I used Peanut Oil ,you can use vegetable oil/Sunflower oil/Mustard Oil ]
14. Potatoes ( I took relatively medium size 3 Potatoes peeled and cut in to half.so that after scooping there is enough room for the chicken stuffing )

NOTE - After reserving 1/4th cup of the Potato scoop you can use the rest of the potato scoop for making potato sandwich with spices ,you need not throw it.

Ingredients for Stuffed Potato Gravy:-

1. About 1 cup Onion paste.
2. About 1/2 cup chopped Tomato.
3. 1 tablespoon of Ginger Garlic crushed.
4. Few fresh chilly sliced lengthwise.(use as per your heat tolerance )
5. 1 teaspoon coriander powder.
6. Rest of the reserved dry roasted spice mix (prepared in step 1 under ingredients for Potato stuffing).
7. 1/4 teaspoon each of Paprika or Kashmiri chilly powder + Cayenne or red chilly powder + turmeric powder ( use chilly powder little more or less as per your heat tolerance )
8. Sugar 1/4 th teaspoon.
9. Salt as per your taste.
10. Oil for the gravy ( 1 tablespoon , I used Peanut Oil ,you can use vegetable oil/Sunflower oil/Mustard Oil .)
11. Left over stuffing ( if any ) for me about 1/4 cup was left which I added into the gravy to thick it up.

Preparation :-

1. Take The Potatoes clean ,wash and peel them .With the help of a melon scooper or a spoon scoop out the potatoes ( reserve 1/4th cup of the scoop,and chop the scoop,this we will add in the potato stuffing ).
2. Prepare the dry roasted spice mix as mentioned in point 1 ( ingredients for Potato stuffing ).
3. Chop the Onion and Tomatoes ,slit the fresh chilly and crush/mince the garlic and ginger in a Mortar and Pestle ( hamaldista) and keep aside.
4. Make the paste of all purpose flour with water for sealing the stuffed Potatoes.(see video in you tube and the pictures to get an idea,link given above )

Cooking:-

STEP 1 ( Preparing the Chicken Stuffing )

1. After the Potatoes are scooped fry them with sprinkle of salt and turmeric powder ,cover and fry opening intermittently and turning them til a light brown colour develops and keep aside.( I used about 2 teaspoon of oil )[ DO NOT overcook or else it will be difficult to stuff them,remember we will again simmer them in the gravy ,they should hold the shape]
2. In the same utensil add again 2 teaspoon of oil and add the minced onion and fry til it starts turning golden,then add the garlic and fry til the raw smell disappears followed by the ginger and fry .
3. Fry the ginger for about 40 seconds and add 1/4th cup of the scooped and chopped Potato and fry for 1-2 minute followed by the minced chicken along with the powdered spices(Paprika or Kashmiri chilly powder + Cayenne or Red Chilly Powder+ Turmeric Powder + 1 and 1/2 teaspoon of the prepared dry roasted spice mix) and then mix and cook till the chicken is done.
4. The chicken will give out water let the water dry up,keep on cooking and mixing.
5. Lastly add Salt,sprinkle of black pepper powder ( golmorich ) and Tomato sauce /Ketchup and mix. Fry for 1-2 min.
6. Keep the stuffing aside and let it cool down.

STEP 2 ( Stuffing The Potatoes,Sealing them and frying the sealed up side. )

1. Now take each scooped out fried Potato and fill them with the minced chicken stuffing.After filling them seal the open side with the thick paste of all purpose flour and water which you have prepared.
2. Keep them aside.
3. Now again take 2 teaspoon oil,heat it up and fry the sealed up side and keep them aside.

STEP 4 ( Preparing the gravy and simmering the stuffed Potatoes in the gravy )

1. Now lets start with the gravy.Take an utensil add oil ,let it heat up then add the onion paste.Fry the onion paste til oil seeps out.
2. Then add the crushed ginger and garlic and fry til raw smell disappears and oil seeps out.
3. After this add the tomatoes and the powdered spices(1/4 teaspoon each of Paprika or Kashmiri chilly powder + Cayenne or red chilly powder + turmeric powder ( use chilly powder little more or less as per your heat tolerance )and cover and cook til the tomatoes melts.
4. Then add the left over dry roasted spice mix which you prepared( reserving just 1/4 teaspoon for garnishing later),left over Chicken stuffing , sugar and salt and mix.
5. Then arrange the stuffed Potatoes and add little water.
6. Cover and cook on medium to low heat ,simmering,opening intermittently and turning the potatoes gently and adding little water at a time whenever required ( when the gravy dries up but the Potatoes are still uncooked ) til the Potatoes are cooked.(you can insert a fork and check if the Potatoes are done or not ).[This step will take time,do not add lot of water at a time or else the potatoes will become mushy and the stuffing will come out ,handle the Potatoes gently while turning them ]
7. When the Potatoes are done serve it with garnish of fresh slit chilly and very little dry roasted spice mix,it goes well with Roti/Paratha/Poori or Luchi :-).

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