Badami Chicken

Badami Chicken

Ingredients:

1. Chicken
2. Peanuts
3. Onion, garlic, ginger
4. Mustard seeds
5. Curry leaves
6. Green chilies, red dried chilies
7. Red chili powder
8. Tomato puree
9. Curd
10. Salt and sugar

Method:

1. Wash and pat dry the chicken and keep it aside.
2. Heat oil in the skillet and add mustard seeds, dried red chilies (wait till it splutter) and finely sliced onions.
3. Add garlic paste and ginger paste and sauté for some time.
4. Add curry leaves, chili powder and mix it well till it’s mushy.
5. Add the chicken and tomato puree and mix well for some mins till the oil leaves out.
6. Add the groundnut/peanut paste (peanuts, garlic, green chilies, salt and sugar mixed) and 2n half tbsp of curd, sprinkle some salt as per taste and mix well.
7. Cover the skillet and let it cook on medium flame till the chicken is tender and oil floats above the gravy.
8. Sprinkle chopped coriander and serve hot with plain rice or roti/paratha

Chicken Biryani (Low fat/without ghee/butter)

Ingredients:

1. Chicken

2. Ginger and garlic paste

3. Finely sliced onion and fried

4. Curd

5. Whole garam masala

6. Jaiyfhal and Jabetri

7. Basmati rice

8. Black pepper

9. Salt and sugar.

10. Biriyani Masala

11. Potato cubes

Process:

1. Boil water and add in bay leaf, cloves and cardomons , sugar and salt and add washed basmati rice. Boil the rice half done (half tender). Strain the rice along with the whole garam masala.

2. Cut chicken into medium size and add ginger garlic paste, black pepper, curd, salt , pinch of sugar, jaiyfhal and jabetri , handful of fried onion and pinch of biryani masala (optional).

3. Heat oil in a skillet and add in the chicken mixture and mix it together for some time and add the potato cubes. (half done)

4. Take a serving bowl and put rice evenly and then a layer of chicken gravy and again repeat the layer and also add on fried crispy onion and pinch of salt..

5. Preheat the oven at 400f and bake it for 40mins. Cover the serving bowl with a silver foil.

6. Serve hot with salad or curd.

Tips:

You can avoid the fried onion and add fresh raw onion paste along with the garlic ginger paste.

Biryani masala will enhance the aroma which can be used or avoided as per choice.

Oil usage is very less.