Kadai Chicken

I always lookout for new chicken curry recipes whenever there are guests coming over. For one, I like to experiment and secondly, to feed my blog. When Deepa of Hamaree Rasoi posted this, I was absolutely drooling over the dish. And she also wrote in that post that she had cooked this dish many times and each time the strike rate was 100%. She has some amazing collection of recipes, takes a lot of effort in presentation and her creativity brings out beautiful pics of the food she cooks. Every time she posts, I just wish if there could be a mechanism to eat right from the monitor. 

Coming to the recipe, I made it when we had 3 guests coming. I made the curry with a kilo of Chicken and there was no leftover, mind you. The bowl was clean. I took the above pic just before they arrived in a hurry and thought I'll click later. That explains how delicious this dish is. Thanks Deepa for sharing your signature recipe.

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg, cut into medium pieces

Onions - 3 big, ground to paste

Garlic - 3-4 pods

Ginger - 1" piece

Green Chillies - 2-3

Tomatoes - 3, ground to paste

Kasoori Methi - 2 tsp

Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 1 tsp

Coriander Powder - 1 tsp

Garam Masala - 1 tsp

Capsicum - 1, diced

Cream - 1/2 cup

Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

Oil - 3 tbsp

For marination:

Curd - 3/4 cup

Garlic 5-6 pods

Ginger - 1", chopped

Green chillies - 3-4

Red chilli powder - 1 tsp

Garam Masala - 1 tsp

Method:

1. Wash and pat dry the chicken pieces. Make a paste of ginger, garlic and green chillies with curd. Add all the ingredients called for in the marination. Mix well and keep aside for atleast half an hour.

2. Heat 2 tbsp oil in kadai and fry marinated chicken till all the curd liquid is soaked up and its crisp on the outside. Keep aside.

3. In the same kadai, add remaining oil and fry onion paste till raw smell disappears. 

4. Add ginger garlic paste and green chillies.

5. Add salt and stir well for another 5 mins.

6. Add tomato paste and fry till it leaves oil. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder and combine.

7. Add chopped capsicum, chicken, kasoori methi and sprinkle garam masala and combine.

8. Add 1/2 cup water if you want gravy. Cover and cook for 10 mins or till chicken is cooked.

9. Add cream, mix well and cook for 2 mins before removing from heat. 

10. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with flavored rice or Indian bread.