Description
Easy Chicken curry with Coriander paste
Ingredients
- Chicken: 1 Kg (Medium pieces)
- Sour curd: 4 Tbsp.
- Onion: Big 2 or Medium 3
- Ginger: 2 inches long, without skin
- Garlic: 8 to 10 cloves
- Green Chilies: 2 or 3 (depends upon how hot you can eat)
- Coriander leaves: 1 Bunch (well Cleaned)
- Cumin Powder: 2 Tsp.
- Coriander Powder: 2 Tsp.
- Kashmiri Red Chili Powder: 2 Tsp. (This is mainly for the color, you can add other chili powder if you want)
- Garam Masala Powder: 2 Tsp.
- Mustard oil for cooking: 3:4 Tbsp.
- Butter: 1 Tbsp.
- Sugar (Optional): 2 Tsp.
- Salt: as per taste
Instructions
- Make a paste of onions, ginger, garlic, coriander leaves and green chilies together in a mixer Grinder. The mouthwatering smell will come from the paste.
- Take a big bowl and mix Sour card, the paste, cumin powder, coriander powder, ‘Mirchi’ powder and garam masala powder. Add some salt and mix it well.
- Then marinate the chicken in this batter. Add one tablespoon of mustard oil in this marinate and mix everything well.
- Keep the marinated chicken at least 2 hours. It tasted even better if it is rested 4-5 hours. You can keep it in the refrigerator.
- Take a kadhai or a nonstick pan, pour in some mustard oil.
- Add a little water to the bowl where you marinated the chicken and carefully mix the residual marination with the water and add the water to the chicken.
- Use your spatula one or two times to mix it well. Add a lid to the kadhai or pan, and then set the oven to a medium-low flame and forget all about the cooking
- You can come to watch the cooking if you feel so.
- After 15-20 minutes the chicken will be well cooked. You can see it then, and use your spatula if you want to cook it a bit on low fire.
- Taste it and add a little more salt if needed.
- If you want to add some sugar now is the time.
- Before taking it off the oven, add one tablespoon of butter in it and mix it.
- It will bring a nice shining to the recipe. Now the Dhaniya Chicken is ready to serve.
Notes
Serve it hot with Nan, Paratha or pooris. It tastes good With the roti also.
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Category: Chicken
- Cuisine: Indian