Chicken korma

l Chicken korma

Serves: 05

Preparation Time: 45 Minutes

Level: Easy

Ingredients:

• Cooking oil - 4 tablespoon
• Cumin - 1 teaspoon
• Clove - 3 no.
• Cardamon - 1 no.
• Cinnamon - 1/2" sized stick
• Ginger - small piece (10 gram)
• Garlic - 8 clove
• Green chili - 4 no
• Onion - 1 large sized
• Chili powder - 2 teaspoon
• Coriander powder - 3 teaspoon
• Garam masala - 2 teaspoon
• Fennel powder - 1 teaspoon
• Curd - 25 ml
• Coconut - 1/2 
• Salt - to taste
• Coriander leaf - 5 springs

Preparation:

• Grind ginger, garlic and green chili together
• Grate and grind coconut
• Fine chop onions

Cooking

• Heat oil in a pan, add whole spices one by one and temper
• Add ginger-garlic-chili paste and fry until  it start to stick to the bottom
• Add onion and saute until it turn brown
• Add chicken, salt, chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala, fennel powder allow it to coat evenly in chicken
• Sprinkle little water, cover and cook until chicken is almost tender
• Add coconut paste, whisked curd and cook further
• Adjust the consistency by sprinkle water (don't pour in)
• Cook in slow fire until chicken is tender and oil starts to accumulate on top
• Sprinkle coriander leaf generously

Notes:

• Alter the recipe by excluding coconut or curd (adding any one)
• Also you can add 1 puree'd tomato
• Goes well with any pulao or rotis'