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Oven baked chicken thighs

These easy red curry flavored chicken thighs are perfect weeknight curry dinner in the oven.
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Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 8 servings
Course: Dinner
Cuisine: American, Sri Lankan
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

  • 8 Chicken thighs skin on bone in
Marinade
  • 1 red onion finely minced
  • 1 inch piece of ginger finely minced
  • 2 cloves of garlic finely minced
  • 10 curry leaves sliced
  • 3 Thai Green Chilies finely minced
  • 2 inch piece of lemongrass bruised
  • 1 tsp whole black pepper crushed
  • 2 tsp black curry powder
  • 2 tbsp Spanish Paprika three for more heat
  • 2 tbsp salt
Aromatics
  • 1/2 tsp fennel seeds
  • 1/4 tsp black cumin seeds
  • 3 cardamom pods
  • 2 cloves
  • 1 Indian bay leaves
  • 1 star anise seed
  • pinch nutmeg
Liquid flavors
  • 2 tsp tamarind
  • 2 tbsp red wine
  • 1 tbsp date molasses
for sauce
  • 2 tbsp ghee
  • 1/2 cup water

Equipment

  • 1 Sauté pan
  • 1 shallow baking dish

Method
 

Making the marinade
  1. Crush aromatics except Indian bay leaf to a coarse powder
  2. Heat ghee and fry onions until golden brown.
  3. Add ginger garlic Thai peppers lemongrass and sauté until soft.
  4. Add curry powders, salt and aromatics followed by liquid flavors.
  5. Stire everything in and add half a cup of water to make it easy to mix. cook on low for couple of minutes.
  6. let it cool before adding to chicken
Marinade
  1. Rinse the chicken in cold water and pat dry. Add all the marinade and leave for two hours in the refrigerator
Cooking
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  2. arrange marinated chicken in a baking pan in single layer and place the all the marinade to coat the chicken.
  3. Bake for one hour 30 minutes basting chicken in its own juices every 10 minutes during the last half an hour.
  4. Enjoy over rice.