Punjabi Chicken – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Take chicken in a bowl and wash it really good.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, salt, lemon juice and mix everything well together.
• When chicken gets nice coating of spices, cover and rest it for about 1 hour to marinate.
• Heat up oil in a pan.  
• Add cumin seeds, cloves, black peppercorns, cinnamon, onion, ginger, garlic and fry everything well until it gets nice golden color.
• When onion begins to get light golden color add tomato and fry until tomato cooks nice and soft.
• Let it cool down completely.
• Transfer the roasted masala into a blender jar and blend it into fine paste.
• Do not add water while blending. Moisture in tomato is enough for blending.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add the blended paste and fry for about 5-6 minutes.
• Add garam masala, coriander powder, red chili powder and mix well.
• Fry for about 3-4 minutes.
• I have used kitchen king garam masala.
• Add marinated chicken and mix well.
• Cover and cook without adding water for about 6-7 minutes.
• Add salt, hot water and mix well.
• While adding salt keep salt added while marinating chicken.
• You can decide the quantity of hot water according to the consistency of chicken you want.
• Cover and cook on medium heat until chicken gets cooked for about 15-20 minutes.
• Crush kasuri methi between your palms and add.
• Mix well and Punjabi chicken is all ready.
• You can serve it with naan, roti, paratha.