This is basic chicken curry recipe frequently prepared in pretty much every non vegetarian house in India. Chicken cooked with onion-garlic-ginger-tomato gravy and spiced up with garam masala.
Chicken Curry / Chicken Masala Recipe
Course: MainCuisine: IndianDifficulty: Medium8
servings15
minutes55
minutes1
hour or overnightA very common chicken curry recipe in which chicken is cooked in onion tomato gravy fully loaded with special blend of Indian spices.
Ingredients
- Marination :-
1.5 kg / 3 lb of skinless, bone-in chicken, cut into pieces
1/2 cup of yogurt
1/2 of lemon
1 tsp of chili powder
3/4 tsp of turmeric powder
Little salt
- For Gravy :-
1 tsp of mustard seeds
2 big onions, finely chopped
8-10 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 inch of ginger, finely chopped
3 green chilies , chopped
3 medium tomatoes, chopped
1 Tbsp of coriander powder
1 Tbsp of chicken masala powder
Red chili powder to taste
Few cilantro leaves chopped
1-2 Tbsp of oil
Salt to taste
Directions
- Marinate chicken with lemon juice, yogurt, chili powder, turmeric and salt for at least an hour or overnight.
- Now in a hot pan add oil, splutter mustard seeds, then add onions, chilies and salt.
- When the onions are translucent, add ginger and garlic and stir for 5-6 min. Now add dry spices and stir for few minutes.
- Then add tomatoes and let it cook until it releases oil. Now add chicken with its marination and put on the lid and let it cook for 40 minutes.
- When chicken is done and simmer it for 5 min. Add cilantro leaves and chicken curry is done.
