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Malai Boti
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Malai Boti

A lucisouly tender chicken with all the flavors of a summer bbq but the convenience of being baked right in your oven!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Marinating Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 5
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Pakistani
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 2 pounds boneless chicken cubed
  • 2 tbsp mint chutney
  • 2 tbsp heavy cream
  • 2 tbsp yogurt
  • 1 tsp cumin freshly ground
  • 1 tsp coriander seeds freshly ground
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 tsp kashmiri laal mirch or cayenne
  • 1/2 tsp chili flakes
  • 1 tbsp oil flavorless
For smoking the chicken
  • 1 piece charcoal
  • 1 tsp oil

Equipment

  • Oven

Method
 

  1. Preheat your oven to 400 F. Mix all the ingredients together and marinate for at least 30 minutes. You can marinate this for up to two days in your refridgerator.
  2. Drizzle the oil in a large baking dish. Add the chicken, making sure to leave space between each piece. COver your dish with foil and bake the chicken for 15 minutes, then uncovered for another 15 minutes. If there is a lot of liquid left in the dish you can drain it, but usually when I make this there’s isn’t much left so I leave it in the dish. 
  3. Please be extra careful for this part of the recipe. To smoke the chicken heat up the charcoal over a low flame on your stove till it’s red. Then carefully place it in a metal dish or on piece of foil in the center of the chicken. Drizzle with 1 tsp oil while it's still hot and immediately cover the dish. Leave for about 5 minutes. Then remove the coal and serve the chicken with naan, or use in paratha rolls.

Notes

How to cook this. You can make the stove top as well. Just add in an extra tsp of oil to the pan, and cook covered for about 12 minutes, stirring occasionally. Then sauté uncovered for 5 minutes. The smoking instructions remain the same. 
Meal prep with this. This is a great recipe to meal prep. You can keep this raw in the fridge and cook as need, or bake it and reheat as needed.