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Kadhai Chicken

  • Servings: 2-3
  • Preparation time: 10 minutes.
  • Frying time: 25 minutes.
  • Cooking time: 6 minutes.
  • Total time: 41 minutes.

Wonderful in taste and aroma; the recipe runs in family since generations, my in laws are from Mithila region (Bihar) and my next generation also likes and often cook this recipe…

Chicken consumed in all around the world count as important source of protein; can be prepared in many ways ‘kadhai chicken’ is one of them from Indian continent. It is very popular in northern India and Pakistan too.

Ingredients:

  • Chicken: 400 gm
  • Vinegar: 2 tablespoon
  • Onion: 100-150 gm
  • Tomato: 1-2 (medium)
  • Ginger: 2 teaspoon (paste)
  • Garlic: 1 teaspoon (paste)
  • Cumin seed: half teaspoon
  • Bay leaf: 2 no.
  • Garlic: 4 flake
  • Clove: 4 no.
  • Salt: one and half teaspoon (as per taste)
  • Chilly powder: 1 teaspoon
  • Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon
  • Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
  • Garam masala powder: half teaspoon
  • Oil: 3 tablespoon

Preparation:

  1. Clean and wash chicken. Soak with vinegar for 5-10 minutes. Wash with water.
  2. Cut onion and tomato longitudinally.
  3. Chop coriander leaves.

Method:

  1. Heat oil in a kadhai. Put cumin seed, clove, bay leaf, garlic flake in it. Sputter it for few seconds.
  2. Add onion and saute  for 3-4 minutes on high flame or till light brown, add tomato and continue to saute for 3-5 minutes on medium flame.
  3. Add garlic and ginger paste, continue to cook on medium flame for a minute, add chicken piece, chilly, turmeric, salt  and coriander powder.
  4. Reduce to low heat, and cover the lid. Fry till oil separates from masala (or liquid dries up) about 10-12 minutes, add 100 ml warm water and cover the lid.
  5. Cook on medium flame till the chicken is done( about 5-6 minutes), add Garam masala powder, put off the flame.
  6. Transfer into serving small kadhai; garnish with coriander leaves.
  7. Enjoy the recipe…

Ingredients
Ingredients
Put cumin seed, clove, bay leaf, garlic flake
Add onion and saute
Add onion and saute
Add tomato
Add garlic and ginger paste
Add chicken piece
Add chicken piece
chilly, turmeric, and coriander powder
chilly, turmeric, and coriander powder
Reduce to low heat, and cover the lid
Add 100 ml water
Cook on medium flame till the chicken is done
Add Garam masala
Kadahi chicken
Kadhai chicken

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Kadhai Chicken by Nag Ratna Sahu is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.