Chicken cooked with onions & spices and served with cream & almond sauce
I love cooking chicken.. That's an ingredient which will almost always guarantee taste, unless you mess with it that badly :D So here I am, to tell a tale of my recent success story - "Mughlai Chicken".. My mom used to make this a long ago, when the entire family was in the prime of our healthy & extra indulgence of cream & nuts were a routine.. Ahh, Bliss !! Mughlai Chicken, Butter Chicken, Chicken 65.. the list was never ending. It had been a long while since I had this, so I succumbed to the craving & went ahead & prepared it.. Suits best with Rotis & Naan, but not a crime if u pair it up with steamed rice coz it again tastes great ;)
What I loved the most was that, my kitchen was smelling awesome after I cooked this.. The smell of ghee mixed with our Indian spices & cream.. Yupz.. I was loving it ;) B\ut the only minus is that I can't make it a routine in my menu, coz of the extra calories that I wud have to burn out.. Only if tasty dishes were healthy & nutritious to the core !! So enoough of my ramblings about this dish, let's check out how this is made :)
Recipe Source: Adapted from here & here
Serves: 2-3 persons
I Took:
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
I Used:
| Chicken | - | 400 gm |
| Onion | - | 1 medium - grated |
| Ginger-Garlic paste | - | 2 tsp |
| Cinnamon | - | An inch piece |
| Cardamom | - | 2 nos |
| Red Chilly powder | - | 1 tsp |
| Coriander powder | - | 1 ½ tsp |
| Cumin seed powder | - | ½ tsp |
| Garam Masala | - | 2 tsp |
| Cream | - | 3-4 tbsp |
| Egg | - | 1 no |
| Almonds | - | 15 no |
| Sugar | - | 1 tsp |
| Ghee | - | 2 tbsp |
| Salt | - | As Needed |
The Way:
- Blanch the almonds - Soak the almonds in hot water for 5 minutes & then remove their skin
- Grind the almonds to a fine paste & keep aside
- Heat ghee in a pan over medium heat. Add the grated onions & fry them till they become translucent
- Then add in ginger-garlic paste, cinnamon & cardamom. Saute well till the onions turn golden brown & the raw smell goes off
- Now add the chicken (Refer notes below) and mix well so that the chicken pieces are smeared with the onion paste. Add salt and ½ cup water and cook till the chicken is half done. This may take around 12-15 minutes
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl mix together cream, eggs, sugar & powdered almonds thoroughly. Use a whisk to thicken, if the cream is liquidy
- Lower the heat once the chicken is half cooked. Add the cream mixture to it
- Cook on low flame until the chicken is cooked & tender for another 5-7 minutes
- Garnish with flaked almonds if u wish :)
Serve with hot phulkas or Naan :-)
Notes:
Instead of adding chicken pieces directly, you can grill it & add to the sauteed onions which would give you an extra zing. Marinate it for half an hour with red chilly powder, salt, turmeric, lemon juice & a little curd before grilling :)
Cheers,
Chitz