Diya's Daily Cooking Recipe: Chicken Curry

Chicken curry is famous among all of all age groups specially the teens. Here is a recipe for that.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken pieces (cut into medium pieces) - 500 gms
2. Garlic - 8-9 cloves(crushed to paste)
3. Onions (big) - 1 nos (chopped)
4. Onions(medium) - 2 nos (paste)
5.Ginger paste - 2 tsp
5. Bay leaf - 1 nos
6. Green chillies - 8-9 nos
7. Dry red chilly - 1 nos
8. Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
9. Red chilly powder - 2 tsp
10.Cumin powder - 1 tsp
11.Oil
12.Curd (sour)- 3 tsp
13.Cardamon - 3 nos
12. Cinnamon - 2 stick
Salt to taste.

Serving pax - 2 to 3

Wash thoroughly the chicken pieces. Add half of each garlic paste,ginger paste,onion paste to the chicken pieces.Add add chopped onions to it.Add 5-6 green chillies, turmeric powder,red chilly powder,cumin powder and salt.Add sufficient oil (20ml) to it.Mix all the content well.Add curd to it.Mix well and keep aside.You may also keep in refrigerator for the content to get marinated.It is always better to marinate for minimum 30 minutes. After the chicken gets marinated well pour oil(about 20 ml) in a wok.Heat it.Add cardamon and cinnamon to oil.Fry them and take them out from the oil.A flavor would be left behind in the oil.Add dry red chilly,bay leaf and remaining chopped onions and cook till it turns into golden.Then add the remaining garlic paste,onion paste,ginger paste.Stir well till oil separates. Put the marinated chicken pieces in the spice mixture.Mix well.Cover the wok with a lid so that no steam comes out of the wok.After every 3minutes stir the whole content from bottom to top.Care to be taken so that the chicken pieces do not stick at the bottom of the wok.Keep stirring and check till the chicken pieces gets cooked.You may add hot water. Boil it till the gravy thickens.Add salt if required.

Enjoy your chicken curry.