Chicken Masala

Time Required: 2 Hours
Servings: 8
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Ingredients:

• 1 Kg Chicken
• A bunch of Coriander Leaves
• 20 Garlic Cloves
• 10 Green Chilies
• Piece of Ginger – 1.5 inch
• 1 small Coconut
• 10 Red Chilies
• Tamarind (small piece)
• 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 2 tsp Coriander seeds
• 1 cup Curd
• 8 Onions
• 2 tsp Kus Kus
• 4-5 Pepper Corns
• Small piece of Cinamon
• 5-6 cloves
• 1 Dagadphool
• 1 Jayapathri
• Water
• Ghee and Oil
• Salt according to your taste

Method:

1. Wash and clean Chicken Pieces.
   
2. Grind Coriander leaves, Garlic, Ginger, Green Chilies into a smooth paste.
3. Use this green masala to marinate the Chicken. Add Curd and mix it well. Leave it for 40 minutes.
   
4. Take grated Coconut in a kadai and saute it for 10 minutes. Fry Red Chilies and Coriander Seeds in little oil.
5. Grind Coconut, Red chilies, Turmeric powder, Tamarind and Coriander seeds. Let this masala be little coarse.
   
6. Saute chopped Onions in little Ghee.
7. Fry Kus kus, Pepper corns, Cinamon, Cloves, Dagadaphool and Jayapathri. Add half portion of sauted Onions and fried garam masala items to the ground masala and grind it once again.
   
8. Add the marinated Chicken pieces to the remaining portion of sauted Onions and pressure cook it (3 whistles).
   
9. Once the chicken is cooked add the ground Masala, and Salt. Bring it to boil.
10. Tasty and spicy Chicken Masala is ready!