Steamed Chicken in bamboo hollow is a technique that is all about slow cooking of food in wood fire or charcoal using a bamboo hollow. During the early days bamboo tubes were used effectively as alternates to modern day pressure cookers, steamers or such as they were not available. However, cooking in bamboo hollows still remains a popular delicacy today in many parts of our country as the water contained in fresh bamboo stem and the smoke from the woodfire/charcoal imparts a unique flavour and aroma to the food cooked within it.
Marinate the meat with salt, freshly crushedt urmemic and the pounded ginger garlic.
Add chopped onion, split green chillies and coriander leaves. For aroma, add a few leaves of kafir lime and curry leaves too
Drizzle few tablespoon of oil Add the lime juice . Mix everything thoroughly.
Transfer to the bamboo hollow to fill 80% of its length Firmly seal with banana leaves and place it around a fire or on top of burning charcoal.Open the seal just before serving.
