Marinate the chicken pieces with salt and lime juice. Keep this aside.
In a kadai, dry roast the pepper, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom.
Add the red chillies and curry leaves. Fry them.4) In a mixer, add the roasted items, coriander, chilli powder, chicken powder. Grind it to a paste.5) In a pressure cooker, add 2 tbsp of oil.6) Saute onion, ginger-garlic paste and the ground paste. Fry them well till oil clears.
Add chopped tomato and chicken pieces and fry again.8) Add little water and pressure cook the chicken.