Name: North Indian Style Chicken Masala
Prep time: 30 min
Total time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1/2 kg Chicken; 1 no Onion (cut into medium size cubes, large); 5 nos Tomato (cut into small pieces or 20 0z canned tomato will also do, medium); 3 nos Green chillies (slit lenght wise); 2 tsp Ginger (minced or paste); 2 tsp Garlic (minced or paste); 3 tbsp Curds; 3 tbsp Oil; 1 tbsp Butter or Ghee; Salt (As reqd); 2 tbsp Coriander leaves; 1 tsp Corainder powder; 1/2 tsp Chilly powder; 1 tsp Pepper powder; 1 tsp Tumeric powder; 1 tsp Garam masala powder; Dry Spices:; 1 tsp Cumin seeds (Jeerakam); 4 nos Cloves (Grambu); 3 nos Cardomom (Elakka); 1 medium Cinammon (Karugapatta)

North Indian Style Chicken Masala

A simple chicken masala with a thick gravy

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Prep Time 30

Total Time 30

Cuisine North Indian

Servings people

Ingredients

1/2 kg Chicken
1 no Onion cut into medium size cubes, large
5 nos Tomato cut into small pieces or 20 0z canned tomato will also do, medium
3 nos Green chillies slit lenght wise
2 tsp Ginger minced or paste
2 tsp Garlic minced or paste
3 tbsp Curds
3 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp Butter or Ghee
Salt As reqd
2 tbsp Coriander leaves

Dry Masala powders:-

1 tsp Corainder powder
1/2 tsp Chilly powder
1 tsp Pepper powder
1 tsp Tumeric powder
1 tsp Garam masala powder
Dry Spices:
1 tsp Cumin seeds Jeerakam
4 nos Cloves Grambu
3 nos Cardomom Elakka
1 medium Cinammon Karugapatta

Instructions

Clean the chicken well.
Mix the ginger and garlic in the chicken and set aside.
In a non stick pan, put the chicken with the ginger and garlic on low heat till all the water from the chicken has evaporated and the chicken has turnes soft.
Add the pepper and chilli powder with 3 tbsp oil and let the chicken fry a little with this masalas till the sides of the chicken turns light brown.
Add the tomatos and the green chillies and let the chicken cook in this till the tomato gravy thickens.
Heat butter/ghee in another pan or kadai.
Splutter cumin seeds.
Add the dry spices.
Add onion and lower the flame, cover the pan or kadai for about 5 mins.
:- Make sure the flame is low. The onions donot have to be brown just translucent.
Add the chicken which has been cooked in the tomato gravy to the onion, jeera and spices and fry for about 3 mins increasing the heat a bit.
Add all the dry masala powder to chicken mix well and fry for 5 mins.
Add the curds, mix it into the chicken, cover and let it cook till there is a thick gravy.
Remove from heat and garnish with coriander leaves.
:- Serve hot with Chappati or Paratha.

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North Indian Style Chicken Masala