Chicken Curry | Recipe

Chicken Curry Recipe (My style)

Key Ingredients:

Chicken                                      500 gm

Cooking Oil                                4/5 tablespoon

Cumin Seeds (jeera)                   1 teaspoon

Bay leaf (Tej Patta)                    1-2

Suger                                          1/2 teaspoon

Salt                                              As per taste

Turmeric powder                        1/2 tablespoon

Green chilly                                 2-3

Onion (chopped)                          3-4 medium size

Tomato (chopped)                       3-4 medium size

Ginger/ Garlic paste                    2 tablespoon

Onion Paste                                 1/2 Cup

Spices:

Coriander powder (Dhaniya)      1/2 tablespoon

Cumin powder (Jeera)                1/2 tablespoon

Cinnamon (Dal Chini)                1 inch

Cloves (Lwang)                           2-3 

Green Cardamom (Sukmel)        2-3

Black pepper                               5-6

Nutmeg (Jaifal)                           1/4th 

Red chili powder                        As per taste
Kashmiri chili powder (optional) 1/2 tablespoon (for color, it is not that spicy)

Grind all the above ingredients and prepare a fine powder.

Note: You can use garam masala instead-but taste of freshly grinned Spice is really great.

Recipe:

1. Heat Pan (karahi)  in the Gas stove. Put Oil in it.
2. When oil hot enough then add Cumin Seed in it and let it cook until color changes to brown
3.  Add sugar and let it melt, then add chicken and stir it so that it sticks in the base.
4. Put turmeric powder and Salt in the chicken. Cook until its color changes to reddish-brown with continuous stirring.
5. Now bring out the chicken from the pan without turning off flame.
6. If oil left from frying chicken is not enough to fry other spices then add some more oil and let it heat.
7. Put Bay leaf in oil and cook it till brown. Then add 2 chopped onion, cook until its color changes to light brown.
8.  Take 2 onion, tomatoes, ginger-garlic in a grinder and make a fine paste. Add this paste along with garam masala into the oil and cook them until oil separates from all the masalas.
9. Add some salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Then add fried chicken in it, mix everything well and close the lid for 5/ 10 min (You can add water too if you need more gravy). 
10. Remove it from flame add coriander leaf and delicious chicken curry is ready to serve.