Sri Lankan baked chicken
- Preparation and cooking time
- Total time
- + marinating
- Easy
- Serves 4
Ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs, skinned
MARINADE
- ½ onion, quartered
- 5 cloves garlic
- 1.5cm piece ginger
- 1 tbsp chilli powder
- ½ tbsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- 5 black peppercorns
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
- 90ml vegetable oil
- 4 tbsp tomato ketchup
- ½ lime, juiced
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 2 bay leaves
Method
- STEP 1
Put all the marinade ingredients into a food processor and whizz until you have a coarse paste. Put the chicken into a shallow ovenproof dish and pour over the marinade. Mix well, cover and marinate for 30 minutes.
- STEP 2
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Cover the dish with foil, poke several large holes in it and bake for 60 minutes until the chicken is cooked and the sauce has reduced.
