The marinated chickenbreast and elephant foot yam wrapped in banana leaves is cooked in steam; thisis How to make deliciousol chicken paturi/chicken and elephant foot yam wrapped in banana leaves.
Cut onion into slices, then take a pan, heat oil and fry theonion till it becomes light brown in colour and allow it to cool in roomtemperature.
Now in a blender jar take fried onion, ginger, garlic, redand green chili and grind it, then add mustard seeds again grind it to a smoothpaste.
Take a big bowl, add chicken pieces, yam, turmeric and cuminpowder, ginger-garlic-mustard paste, salt and lemon juice with curry and mintleaves, mix it nicely and keep it aside for marinating for 1 hour.
Meanwhile we prepare the banana leaves.
Take a fresh banana leaf, wash it, then take it over the oven to give slight heat to make it soft and tender, to avoid tear.
Then place the mixture in the center of the leaf and give afold four times. Likewise make the same for others. (Here I made a big paturi by using two leaves and keeping all the stuff inside at a time, so the shape ofthe paturi became little different due to improper folding)
Take a pressure cooker without whistle and pre heat, nowplace the paturi inside the cooker and close the lid.
Let it cook for 40-45 minutes in low heat.
Switch off the oven, uncover the lid and take out the paturi and place it over the serving bowl.