Spicy Chicken Curry

Spicy Chicken Curry

This is a simple, spicy and delicious chicken curry recipe. One of our friends prepared this once and it was absolutely awesome.
So we had to try it ourselves! And boy! Was is YUMMY!

Courtesy: Sangeeta Parihar

Ingredients

1. Chicken  - 1/2 kg (Curry cut or Chicken Drumsticks. I personally Love the drumsticks)
2. Onions - 4 large
3. Tomatoes -2 large
4. Cashew nuts (kaju) - 10 to 12 pieces
5. Badaa phool (Star Anise) - 3 or 4 petals
6. Dalchini (Cinnamon) - 1 inch
7. Kaali Elaichi (Black cardamom) - 1
8. Jeera (cumin seeds) - 1tsp
9. Black pepper - 10 seeds
10. Coriander Seeds - 2tsp
11. Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
12. Red Chill Powder - 2 tsp
13. Bayleaf (Tejpatta) - 1
14. Marathi garam masala (or normal garam masala)  - 2tsp (Marathi garam masala has fried onion in it, so it gives a distinctive taste, but any other masala will also do)
15. Lazeez chicken masala (or any other chicken masala) - 2 tsp
16. Oil  - 2 table spoon
17. Ginger paste - 1 tsp
18. Garlic Paste - 2 to 3 tsp
19. Water - 2 cups
20. Salt to taste

Method

• Fry 3 Onions until Golden brown. Once Onion becomes soft, add all ingredients above from Points #5 to #10 in the Ingredients section. Saute for 2 minutes and keep it to cool. Once this is cool, grind this in a mixer to make a paste. This is your Masala Paste

• Take 1 Tomato and Cashew nuts and prepare a paste of it in the mixer. This your Tomato-Cashew Paste.

• Saute 1 Onion, Bayleaf and 1 Tomato in the frying pan with 2 tablesppon of oil until they are cooked, Put Chicken pieces in the pan and let the chicken cook for sometime. 

• Add the Masala Paste prepared above & Ginger paste and garlic paste and cook in low flame until the chicken and masala are mixed properly.This takes about 10-15 minutes

• Add the Garam Masala + Lazeez Masala + Turmeric Powder + Red Chilli Powder in the chicken and continue to cook in low flame for another 5-7 minutes

• Add Tomato-Cashew Paste and let it all mix up and cook for another 5-7 minutes

• Once all the masala attain some level of consistency, add 2 cups of of water and pour the entire preparation  in a pressure cooker and let it cook for 2 whistles. If you dont have pressure cooker then let everything cook in the pan with lid cover for about 30-40 minutes, while stirring occasionally.

Your Yummy Spicy Chicken Curry is ready! 

Serve with Roti or Naan!

Cheers!