Kadai Chicken ( Chicken Curry)

Kadai Chicken

Description: 

This recipe is a very famous Indian chicken curry among many other chicken recipes. Usually this is prepared in restaurants and considered to be complicated and time consuming dish. But i will show you have to prepare it at home and in a very easy way. You can have the dish with phulkas or rice.

Preparation Time: 15 mins

Cooking Time: 60 mins

Serves: 4-5

Ingredients: 

Chicken  - 2 lb preferably pieces with bone.

Onion - 2 medium size finely chopped 

Ginger- 2 inch

Garlic- 15-18 cloves

Dry Red Chili - 7-8 

Cumin seeds- 2 teaspoon

Coriander seeds- 2 teaspoon

Pepper corns- 7-8 peppercorns

Tomato - 2-3 chopped

Coriander (dhania or cilantro) leaves- Half bunch chopped

Oil for cooking- 4-5 tablespoon of any cooking oil

Salt

Picture 1 : Dry coarse powder

Picture 2 : Ginger, Garlic, Dry Red Chilly Paste

Steps:

• Preparation of first Dry powder
• Heat a pan. Dry roast 2 teaspoon of coriander (dhania) seeds, 2 teaspoon of cumin seeds and 7-8 peppercorns. When the aroma comes out take it out in vessel or grinder and ground it to make a coarse powder. As shown in the Picture 1.
• Preparation of second masala
• Make a paste of 2 inch ginger, 15-18 garlic cloves, 7-8 dry red chili and little water. As shown in the Picture 2.
• Finely chop 2 medium size onions.
• Chop 2-3 tomatoes.
• Wash and chop half a bunch of coriander leaves.

Cooking:

• Heat 4-5 tablespoon of oil in a kadhai or deep bottom pan. 
• Put 2 chopped onions. Saute till it turns slightly brown.
• Then put half of the dry coarse powder which was prepared earlier. Saute.
• Put the masala paste of ginger , garlic and red chili. 
• Saute till oil separates.
• Put 2-3 chopped tomatoes and salt according to taste. Mix well and let it cook for 5-6 mins. 
• Once oil separates from the masala, put the chicken pieces and mix it well.
• Cover the lid. Cook it for almost 45 mins in medium flame. Continuously stir the chicken time to time so that it doesn't stick and get burned. If it is very dry then you can add little hot water.
• After cooking for 45 mins chicken is almost cooked.
• Then put remaining dry coarse powder and chopped cilantro leaves to it.
• Add hot water if required and if you want little gravy.
• Mix it well and cook it for 10-15 mins more.
• Serve hot with roti or rice.