Peshwari Chicken

Ingredients for Peshwari Chicken:

1. Chicken – 1 kg
2. Chilli powder – 1 big spoon
   Coriander powder – 1 small spoonful
   Pepper powder – 1 small spoon
   Cumin – ½ small spoon
   Fennel seeds – ¼ small spoon
   Fenugreek – ¼ small spoon
   Cardamom – 3
   Cloves – 3
   Cinnamon – 2-inch piece
   Turmeric powder – ½ small spoon
3. Onions – 2, medium, chopped
   Ginger – 2.5-inch piece
   Green chillies – 6
4. Curd – ¾ cup
   Salt – For taste
   Lemon juice – 2 small spoons
   Ghee – ¼ cup

How to prepare Peshwari Chicken?

1. Clean chicken and cut into big pieces.
2. Make a fine paste of ingredients no: 2, adding water.
3. Blend ingredients no: 3 using a mixer. Never make a paste.
4. Mix the masala paste and the onion mixture together and add ingredients no: 4.
5. Mix well and marinate chicken pieces using this gravy.
6. Allow it to rest for 2 hours and then cook on a medium flame.
7. Cook till the gravy thickens, and approximate ¼-1/2 cup of gravy will be left.
8. Decorate with fried onions.

Courtesy: Vanitha Magazine August 1-14, 2010

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