Daab chicken recipe is pretty similar to Daab prawn recipe. This authentic delicious Bengali dish is made with small and tender chicken pieces cooked inside a Daab or coconut after draining the water.
The rich texture and taste of the dish is rendered by the creamy and soft coconut, adding a mildly sweet taste to it. The key is the marination of the chicken pieces with a variety of aromatic spices.
The dish is quite easy to cook. Follow the instruction in my recipe to cook this wonderful recipe at home.
Key Takeaways:
- Daab Chicken is made with small and tender marinated chicken pieces cooked inside a green coconut.
- This is an authentic Bengali dish though is a variation of Daab Prawn recipe.
- The dish is usually enjoyed with steamed rice but can be paired with roti or paratha as well.
- Daab Chicken, just as the name implies, offers a coconut-infused taste.
The Ingredients:
- Boneless Chicken: 500 gm (Cut into small pieces and properly washed)
- 1 green coconut
- 1 medium sized onion finely chopped
- 1 tomato properly sliced
- Green chillies: 2 green-coloured chillies and 3 red chillies
- 2 tablespoons ginger-garlic paste
- Vinegar
- Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
- Red chilli powder: ½ tsp
- Coriander powder: ½ tsp
- Cumin powder: ½ tsp
- Colour red chilli powder (Kashmiri red chilli): ½ tsp
- Garam masala: ½ tsp
- Home-made roasted spice: ½ tsp
- Tightly kneaded wheat dough
- Aluminium foil
- Mustard oil (you can use refined oil)
- Salt to taste
How to Make Daab Chicken (Step by Step Images)?
1. Add chopped onion, sliced tomatoes, salt, spices, ginger-garlic paste, ½ tsp of vinegar and 3tbl tablespoons of mustard oil to boneless chicken cubes. Mix well. Set aside for 10 minutes.
2. Open the green coconut. Pour coconut water into a bowl. You don’t need to take out the flesh. Instead, take a spoon, scrape it inside and make a slightly smooth paste.
3. Stuff the marinated chicken inside the coconut.
4. Add 3 tablespoons of coconut water. Do the necessary adjustments to make sure that the coconut water goes inside.
5. Spread the aluminum foil over the open mouth of green coconut and then seal it with the wheat dough.
6. Pour sand in a pan. You can use salt instead of sand.
7. Put a stand on the sand.
8. Place the green coconut on the stand.
9. Cover it with a large-sized pan. Steam it for 30 minutes on high flame. Turn off the oven. Wait for a few minutes. Let it cool.
10. Remove the lid.
11. Take out the green coconut. Remove the dough and aluminum foil.
12. Take out the chicken stuffed inside green coconut and put it on a plate. Sprinkle the kernel over the dish. The mild bite and taste that it infuses into the dish make it super yummy.
Recipe Card:
Daab Chicken (Chicken Stuffed in Coconut)
Ingredients
- 500 g Boneless Chicken (cut into small pieces and properly washed)
- 1 piece Green coconut
- 1 piece Onion (medium sized, finely chopped)
- 1 piece tomato (properly sliced)
- 2 pieces Green chili
- 3 pieces Red chili
- 2 tablespoon Ginger garlic paste
- 1 tablespoon Vinegar
- ½ tablespoon Turmeric powder
- ½ tablespoon Red chilli powder
- ½ tablespoon Coriander powder
- ½ tablespoon Cumin powder
- ½ tablespoon Kashmiri red chili
- ½ tablespoon Garam masala
- ½ tablespoon Home-made roasted spice
- 3 tablespoon Mustard oil
- Salt to taste
Non Edible
- Tightly kneaded wheat dough
- Aluminium foil
Instructions
- Add chopped onion, sliced tomatoes, salt, spices, ginger-garlic paste, ½ tsp of vinegar and 3tbl tablespoons of mustard oil to boneless chicken cubes. Mix well. Set aside for 10 minutes.
- Open the green coconut. Pour coconut water into a bowl. You don’t need to take out the flesh. Instead, take a spoon, scrape it inside and make a slightly smooth paste.
- Stuff the marinated chicken inside the coconut.
- Add 3 tablespoons of coconut water. Do the necessary adjustments to make sure that the coconut water goes inside.
- Spread the aluminum foil over the open mouth of green coconut and then seal it with the wheat dough.
- Pour sand in a pan. You can use salt instead of sand.
- Put a stand on the sand.
- Place the green coconut on the stand.
- Cover it with a large-sized pan. Steam it for 30 minutes on high flame. Turn off the oven. Wait for a few minutes. Let it cool.
- Remove the lid.
- Take out the green coconut. Remove the dough and aluminum foil.
- Take out the chicken stuffed inside green coconut and put it on a plate. Sprinkle the kernel over the dish. The mild bite and taste that it infuses into the dish make it super yummy.
