Celebrate Parsi New Year With Delicious Parsi Food Like This

Russian Pattice

Recipe

Perfect for Parsi New Year celebrations, along with an assortment of Parsi food, Russian pattice has nothing to do with Russia, and everything to do with chicken and patties. The chicken is boiled first in a unique combination of salt, pepper, and ginger-garlic paste, then the chicken and stock are separated, with the stock going toward making the patties and giving them that juiciness. The bones are discarded, and the chicken meat is kept, which gets cooked into a rich filling perfect for shaping into patties. This Parsi food is your chicken cutlet or tikkis, whichever you might want to call them and perfect for a crowd that loves their meatballs. They are crispy on the outside and soft and almost melt-in-the-mouth, courtesy of the chicken stock and the cooked filling. It’s a great party appetiser for Parsi New Year, and something to munch on that's filling and gives you the protein you need. The best cut of chicken for maximum flavour is the chicken thighs, with the bone and skin on. You can go for boneless as well, but the stock gets that extra flavour from the chicken bones. What’s unique about this Parsi food is that the patties are coated in semolina, something this community is terribly fond of, with an egg dip that fries to a golden-brown, delicious meat dish.