Punjabi Chicken Curry/ Cashew Chicken

Ingredients:-

Chicken – ½ Kg

Onion - 1

Tomato -1

Ginger garlic paste - 1 Tbls

Cloves - 12

Whole Pepper -8

Cinnamon -1

Bay leaf -1

Cardamom -2

Chilli Powder - 3/4 Tbls

Turmeric Powder - 1/2 Tsp

Coriander Powder- 1 Tsp

Cumin Powder -1/4 Tsp

Coconut - 2 Tbls

Cashew nuts- 10

Sugar - 1/2 Tsp

Curd - 1/4 cup

Coriander leaves

Salt

Oil

Ghee - 1 Tbls

Preparation:-

  

1. Marinate the chicken with salt and 1/4 Tsp Turmeric powder. And keep aside.
2. Heat a pan. Add oil into it. Then add ghee.
3. Add cloves, pepper, cinnamon, bay leaf and cardamom into the pan and sauté well.
4. Add onion and sauté till it become golden colour. Add a little salt while sautéing.
5. Then add sugar and sauté till sugar dissolves.
6. Add chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder into the onion and sauté well.
7. Add tomato and stir continuously until it cooks.
8. Take a bowl and mix curd and ginger garlic paste.
9. Add curd mixture into the gravy little by little.
10. Grind coconut and cashew nuts into a paste and add it into the gravy. And cook for 1 min.
11. Add marinated chicken and mix well. Add salt and water and close the lid. Cook for few min till chicken cooks.
12. Add coriander leaves
13. Serve with chapathi, pulav etc.

Cheers !!!
Minu