Sri Lankan fried chicken & hoppers - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 250ml coconut milk
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• pinch of ground ginger
• 2 cardamom pods, crushed
• pinch of white pepper
• 500g skinless chicken breasts, each cut into 3 pieces
• 250g rice flour
• 1 ½ tsp fast-action dried yeast
• 1 ½ tsp golden caster sugar
• 500ml coconut milk
• rapeseed oil, for brushing
• 4-6 eggs
• 1l sunflower oil or rapeseed oil
• 75g gram flour
• 25g cornflour
• 100g quick-cook polenta
• 25g desiccated coconut
• pinch of smoked paprika
• pinch of cayenne pepper
• 1 onion, thinly sliced
• 1 small green chilli, halved lengthways
• 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
• ½ tsp ground turmeric
• ½ tsp ground fenugreek seeds
• 1 tsp fish sauce
• 2 tsp cane or light brown sugar
• 400ml full-fat coconut milk
• 125g bag baby leaf spinach, chopped
• juice of 1 lime
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 2 red chillies, finely chopped
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tbsp lime juice