Mulligatoni cook for 2.5 hours.
How to cook malligatoni
Products
Chicken – 1 carcass
Potato – tuber
Onion – 2 heads
Fresh ginger root – 2 centimeters
Carrots – 2 pieces
Green apple – 1 piece
Coconut milk – a glass
Red lentils – 100 grams
Vegetable oil – 50 milliliters
Melted butter – 2 tablespoons
Lime – 1/2 pieces
Garlic – 4 teeth
Zira – a teaspoon
Cinnamon – half a teaspoon
Fennel – 1/2 teaspoon
Coriander – a teaspoon
Curry – a teaspoon
Celery – stem and root
Black pepper – 5 peas
Salt – to taste
How to cook malligatoni
1. Cut the chicken into parts: legs, wings, breast. Wash in cool water.
2. Peel one onion, divide into 4 identical parts.
3. Peel one carrot, cut into circles about a centimeter thick.
4. Cut the celery stalk into centimeter-thick rings.
5. Pour 2.5 liters of cold water into a saucepan, put chicken, onions, carrots, celery, place on medium heat, wait for boiling, cook for 30 minutes.
6. Strain the broth. Discard cooked vegetables.
7. Separate the chicken meat from the bones.
8. Peel potatoes and apples, cut into squares about 2 centimeters thick.
9. Peel the onion, cut into cubes about 0.5 cm thick.
10. Peel the carrots and celery root, chop into strips about 3 centimeters long and 0.3 centimeters thick.
11. Pour oil into a frying pan, place over medium heat, fry the onion for 5 minutes.
12. Add carrots and celery to the pan, fry for 7 minutes.
13. Put the pot with the broth on medium heat, wait for it to boil.
14. Put potatoes, vegetable frying into the broth, after boiling, keep on low heat for 10 minutes.
15. Wash lentils in cool water.
16. Put lentils and an apple into the broth, cook for 10 minutes.
17. Peel the garlic and ginger root, grate.
18. In a separate pan, mix ghee, ginger, garlic, cinnamon, cumin, fennel, coriander, curry, fry over low heat for 2 minutes.
19. Add the spice mixture to the soup, cook over medium heat for 10 minutes.
20. Pour coconut milk, squeezed lime juice into the soup, put chicken meat, salt, remove from the burner after boiling.
Tasty Facts
Malligathoni soup was invented by British chefs during colonial life in India from 1858 to 1947. Now the dish is popular in India, Australia and England.
The name of the soup comes from two Tamil words meaning “pepper” and “water”.
— In the original recipe, the soup was made with chicken and beef broth, fried onions and curry powder.