Chicken Curry

Ingredients

Chicken - 1kg

Salt - As per taste

Turmeric - 1.5 tbsp

Mustard Oil - 150ml

Jeera - 2 tbsp

Black Peppercorns - 10pcs

Cloves - 10pcs

Black Cardamom - 1 pc

Green Cardamom - 4-5 pcs

Javitri / Mace - 1pc

Dalchini - 1 inch

Ginger - 2 inch

Garlic - 1 big pod

Onion - 400gms

Red Chilli - 5 -7 pcs

Bay Leaves - 3 pcs

Masala

Grind the below depicted ingredients into a fine paste.

Marination

1. Wash the chicken pieces

2. Add Salt, turmeric and 20 ml mustard oil and marinate the chicken.

Steps

1. Heat mustard oil in a pan, add bay leaves and finely sliced onions

2. Fry until the onion turns golden brown

3. Add marinated chicken and cook until it oozes out oil. ( It will ooze out water after a few minutes and then after further cooking it will ooze out oil)

4. This is the time when u should add in your grinded masala

5. Fry the entire thing until the raw flavour of masala diminishes and it also starts oozing out oil

6. Now you can add water, as per the consistency you want.

7. Serve hot with Steamed Rice / Puri / Paratha