chicken Kolhapuri

This spicy tangy Maharashtraian dish is not going to leave your taste bud even after its finished  and the only thought that comes is wow its sooooo goood. Try this teekhi maslaedar murgi and see it finishing in minutes.

• Ingredients: for 2-3 people
•  For marination

1. Chicken - 500 grms
2. Red chilly powder- 2 table spoon.
3. Turmeric- 1 table spoon.
4. Ginger garlic paste- 1 table spoon.
5. lemon Juice- of one lemon.

• For roasted masala :

1. Half dried Coconut.
2. 4-5 dried red chilies.
3. sesame seed- 1 table  spoon.
4. khaskhas/ Poppy seeds- 2table spoon.
5. 2-3 Big cardemom.
6.  1-Mace (javitri)
7. Cloves-6-8.
8. black pepper- 8-10.
9. Bay leaves/ tez patta-2.
10. cinnamon- 1 medium .

• For Curry

1. 3 big onions - finely chopped.
2. Ginger garlic paste- 1 table spoon.
3.  tomato puree of 2 medium sized tomatoes.
4. refined- 2 to 3 table spoon.

• Recipe :

First thing first. Mix all the ingredients given for marination and marinate chicken with it. keep it in refrigerator  for 1 hr.

Now Roast all the spices given above . for this take a pan , put in on flame and put all the spices given above except the coconut. saute them for a while then add coconut and saute for 1 more minute. Now put them in a mixer jar and grind into a paste.

Now take a pan , pour oil , once heated add chopped onion , let the onion get the transparent look. Now grind this onion . Now put the grinded onion back into the pan and add ginger garlic paste to it, once the raw smell goes add the roasted paste to it and saute for two minutes, add tomato puree and fry to 2-3 more minutes now add the marinated chicken and mix well and let it fry for  about 5 minutes so that all the spices mix well with the chicken now add some lukewarm water into it . Close the lid and let it  get cooked for some time . keep stirring from time to time and poke chicken to check if its done.  Once cooked  add finely chopped coriander leaves to it and enjoy it hot with roti or naan .

happy cooking,
Noopur.