Kashmiri Chicken Recipe

Like I told in my Butter Chicken post Kashmiri Chicken curry is the another chicken dish I learned before my wedding from my mom… This is our favorite recipe for chicken curry andit goes well with all types Indian breads or pulav....

Kashmiri Chicken

Ingredients:

1-Chicken cut into pieces - 1kg

2-Kashimiri chillies/ Piriyan mulaku -15

3-Mustard seeds – 1 ½ tsp

4-Cumin seeds / Jeerakom – 1tsp

5-Black pepper powder - ¾ tsp

6-Cinnamon sticks / Karuva patta – 1”x6 pieces

7- Cloves / Grambu - 5

8-Ginger – 1” piece, grind to a paste

9- Garlic – 35 small cloves, grind to a paste

10-Onion – 2 medium, sliced

11-Cashew nuts – 20 (soak in warm water for 10 mints and grind to a smooth paste)

12- Tomato – 3 medium, chopped

13-Oil –as needed

14-Raisins– 1 tbsp (grind to a smooth paste with little water)

15-Salt to taste

16- Turmeric powder – ¾ tsp

Method:

• Grind masalas 2 to 7 to a fine paste and keep aside.
• Clean chicken pieces and marinate with salt and turmeric powder for one hour. After 1 hour fry the chicken pieces in hot oil till light brown and remove.
• Add sliced onion to the same oil and fry till brown. Add ginger and garlic paste and sauté till raw smell goes, then add cashew nut paste and mix well.
• Add ground masalas of ingredients 2 to 7 and sauté well until the raw smell goes
• Add fried chicken pieces, tomatoes, ground raisins, salt and enough water and cook on medium heat until chicken is cooked and oil separates.
• Serve hot with Indian flat breads or rice.