So you have little chicken left at home and really bored to make chapatis for dinner after work. All you want to is to relax and have a nice steamy dinner. But you are on your own to make one :). So I have an excellent recipe to just prepare a nice and quick chicken curry, tasty and spicy to pour over your steamy rice. While your rice is getting cooked, curry should become ready, yeh I promise that. It won't take much of your time.
This recipe should be sufficient for 2 people.
We need a spice mix for this recipe and here is how to do it.
Ingredients for spice mix
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp jeera (cumin seeds)
1/2 tsp fennel seeds (saunf)
2" cinnamon stick (just crack it with hands)
4 cloves
Method:
In a pan roast all above ingredients till they become fragrant and keep aside to cool down. Once at room temperature make a fine powder of them. Keep it aside.
Ingredients for curry:
200 gms of chicken (cut in bite size chunks)
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
2 medium sized onion (Make a puree)
1 medium sized tomato (Make a puree)
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp red chilly powder
salt and pepper for taste.
Method:
In a thick bottom pan heat up oil and butter together. Now add-in giner-garlic paste, once fragrant add in fresh dry masala and saute for a while. Add in onion puree and saute till oil starts separating. Add in chicken pieces and saute them nicely. Make sure chicken pieces are well coated with masala and onion puree. Once chicken pieces are bit browned, add in tomato puree and saute for while. Add in red chilly powder, garam masala powder. Mix well, add about 1/2 cup of water. Bring to boil and then cover up with lid and simmer it on low flame for about 10-15 minutes or till chicken cooks through. You can add up more water if you thick gravy has gone thick. Add salt at end to make sure everything is balanced. Add some chopped coriander and pour it on your rice and have fun.
This recipe should be sufficient for 2 people.
We need a spice mix for this recipe and here is how to do it.
Ingredients for spice mix
1 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp jeera (cumin seeds)
1/2 tsp fennel seeds (saunf)
2" cinnamon stick (just crack it with hands)
4 cloves
Method:
In a pan roast all above ingredients till they become fragrant and keep aside to cool down. Once at room temperature make a fine powder of them. Keep it aside.
Ingredients for curry:
200 gms of chicken (cut in bite size chunks)
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
2 medium sized onion (Make a puree)
1 medium sized tomato (Make a puree)
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp red chilly powder
salt and pepper for taste.
Method:
In a thick bottom pan heat up oil and butter together. Now add-in giner-garlic paste, once fragrant add in fresh dry masala and saute for a while. Add in onion puree and saute till oil starts separating. Add in chicken pieces and saute them nicely. Make sure chicken pieces are well coated with masala and onion puree. Once chicken pieces are bit browned, add in tomato puree and saute for while. Add in red chilly powder, garam masala powder. Mix well, add about 1/2 cup of water. Bring to boil and then cover up with lid and simmer it on low flame for about 10-15 minutes or till chicken cooks through. You can add up more water if you thick gravy has gone thick. Add salt at end to make sure everything is balanced. Add some chopped coriander and pour it on your rice and have fun.
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