Dhaba Style Kolhapuri Chicken – Marathi Recipe

Instructions

• Wash FreshToHome chicken really good 3-4 times with water.
• Let the chicken be in the strainer for about 10-15 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken into a bowl and add turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice, salt.
• Mix everything well together and rest for about 30 minutes to marinate.  
• Heat up a pan on medium heat.
• Add coriander seeds, cumin seeds, mace, cinnamon, star anise, cloves, black peppercorns, and roast it a little.
• Add garlic cloves, dry coconut, white sesame seeds, fried onion, dry byadgi mirachi, and roast everything well together until spices release aroma.
• You can skip the dry onion if you don’t have.
• You can skip dry red chilies and use red chili powder instead.
• Transfer everything into a blender jar and blend into a fine powder. Masala for chicken is ready.
• Heat up oil in a pan.
• Add onion and fry until it gets a light golden color.
• Add tomato and fry for another 4-5 minutes until tomato cooks soft.
• Add 3-4 tsp fresh blended masala and fry for about 2 minutes.
• Move the masala aside and add besan in the oil.
• Fry the besan for about a minute and mix it well with the masala.
• Add the marinated chicken and coat it well with the masala.
• Add water and mix well.
• Add water just enough for gravy as chicken also releases moisture.
• Cover and cook for about 20-25 minutes.
• After about 7-8 minutes open the lid and mix the chicken so that it won’t stick to the bottom.
• Add salt and mix well.
• While adding salt be careful as we have added salt while marinating the chicken too.
• Open the lid and mix once at regular intervals.
• After cooking chicken for about 20-25 minutes, chicken masala is all ready.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Chicken masala goes well with bhakari, roti, naan.