Baked Cajun Spiced Chicken & Veggies

Baked chicken with some healthy veggies!A comfort meal perfect for the climate!Chicken marinated with Cajun seasoning and some other spices with garlic and tomatoes. Deliciousness!!It’s a complete meal with spiced and baked veggies along with chicken.

Kashif really enjoyed it!Actually it was a treat for him on his birthday!Just to make him feel special,i simply asked him what do you want for lunch, and he immediately responded Tandoori chicken!😃I was like,oh nooo!hehe!It was a lazy day for me and i have not much time to marinate it.So i decided to make something simple and quick!Here comes the recipe

Cajun seasoning is a blend of spice mix that includes garlic powder,oregano,thyme,paprika,pepper powder!To know the correct proportion check here ! I love adding it in my sandwich and many other recipes!It gives a nice balanced flavor!

The veggies here were very flavorful with all those seasonings!I used potatoes , corn,mushrooms,garlic, tomatoes and onions!Served it with muthabbal and green salad along with khubs!

Over to the recipe

• 700 gm chicken
• 1 n 1/2 tomatoes
• A small piece pf onion
• 10 cloves garlic
• 2 green chilies
• Some cilantro
• 1/2 tsp chilly powder
• 1 tbsp Cajun seasoning
• Salt to taste
• 1 tbsp yogurt
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp vinegar
• Some oil to drizzle while baking
• Veggies of your choice( i used potato,tomato.mushroom.onion,garlic and corn)

Note:Adjust the heat like how you want!(if you can handle more heat add more,or else less)

Method

1. Grind together all the ingredients listed under marination!Marinate it to the cleaned and drained chicken at-least for 2 hours!
2. Take the veggies cut them to medium thick slices and marinate the rest of marination to the veggies.
3. Preheat the oven to 200 degree 
4. Arrange the chicken and veggies evenly on the baking tray drizzle some oil on top put some cloves of garlic here and there bake it for 1/2 an hour.
5. Then take it out brush some more oil sprinkle some Cajun seasoning(optl) turn the side of baking tray and bake it again for 20 minutes to 1/2 an hour or until juices from the chicken runs out completely and got a nice charred marks on the chicken.Serve it by topping some lemon juice and Cajun seasoning!

Note:You can also shallow fry it.

Hope this will help you out to sort out your meal plan during your lazy days!

Relish it with your family!
Happy Baking!