Chicken in Creamy white gravy
Chicken cooked in a flavourful creamy white gravy. Best served with steamed rice, roti or naan.
Equipment
- Mixing bowl
- Pan
- Cooking Pot
- Mixer grinder
- Knives and Cutting Board
Ingredients
Ingredients for the Marinade
- 1 kg Chicken Breast; washed, pat dried and cut into cubes
- 2 tbsp Ginger and Garlic Paste
- 1 Lemon; Juice Extracted
- 1 tsp Salt
Ingredients for the Gravy
- 7-8 Medium-Sized Onions; sliced
- 20 Cashews
- 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds
- 1 tsp Black Peppercorns
- 1 Big Clove of Garlic
- 1 Piece of Ginger ( approximately the size of a big garlic clove)
- 3-4 Green Cardamoms
- 150 gm Yoghurt with 10% Fat
- 2 Cups Water
- 1 tsp Salt
Other Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Ghee
- 1 tsp Finely Chopped Ginger
- 1 tsp Finely Chopped Garlic
- 2 Medium-Sized Onions; Thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp Dry Fenugreek leaves ( Kasuri Methi)
- 2 tbsp Oil
- 2 Green Chillies; finely chopped
- 2 tbsp Finely chopped Fresh Coriander Leaves
Instructions
Method to make the Marinade
- In a mixing bowl, combine chicken, lemon juice, salt and ginger-garlic paste. Mix well, cover it and keep it aside for 30 minutes.
- In a cooking pot, combine onions, ginger, garlic, cashews, black peppercorns, cardamom, cumin seeds and salt.
- Add water and cook this mixture for about 10 minutes on high heat.
- Then turn off the heat and let it cool. Once cooled, combine this with yoghurt and grind it to a fine paste.
- In a pan, heat ghee.
- Fry finely chopped ginger and garlic on medium heat.
- Once they turn golden brown, add thinly sliced onions and fry them on medium heat till they turn golden brown.
- Now add the marinated chicken and cook on high heat till the chicken is about 80% done. Remove it.
- In the same pan, add the ground paste. On high heat, cook this for about 10 minutes till the yoghurt loses its rawness.
- Then add the fried chicken. Cover and cook on medium heat till the chicken in fully cooked.
- Add crushed Kasuri Methi (dry fenugreek leaves).
- In a small pan, heat oil. Add green chillies and fresh coriander leaves.
- On medium heat, fry till the green chillies slightly change colour.
- Add this to the cooked chicken.
- Serve hot.