Chicken curry with almond, cashews and raisins
Chicken curry with almond, cashews and raisins
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Calories: 370kcal
Ingredients
- 1 kg chicken curry cut with bones/boneless
- 3 medium Onions
- 3 large tomatoes
- 2 green chilies
- 8 garlic cloves
- 1 1/2 inch garlic
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- 4 cloves
- 1 Star anise (optional)
- 4 green cardamom
- 10 Almonds
- 10 cashews
- 5/6 raisins
- 2 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 teaspoon kashmiri chilli powder
- 2 teaspoon paprika(optional)
- 2 teaspoon aromatic garam masala (recipe in the other post)
- 1 teaspoon cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 2 teaspoon kasuri methi
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 2 tablespoon ghee
Instructions
- Curry cut the chicken marinate it in turmeric and salt and lemon.
- Soak nuts in warm water for an hour.
- Blanch tomatoes and take out their skin. You can use tomato puree instead. Grind all soaked nuts into a smooth paste
- In a pan heat oil, add cinnamon, star anise, cardamom, cloves and fry for a minute then add whole garlic and ginger, green chillies saute for a couple of minutes. Add onions…now fry onion until they become golden brown, add tomatoes or puree.
- After tomatoes are well cooked and start leaving oil, switch off from the stove and let it cool completely. Grind this in a smooth paste.
- Now in the pan heat ghee, add red chilies when they start changing color add onion tomato paste and saute for 3 minutes, add chilli, coriander, cumin powders and cook them well for 2 min on medium-high flame stirring continuously. Add chicken, giving a good stir coating all the masala on the chicken, slightly brown the chicken then cook it with the lid on.
- After 5 minutes add 1 cup of hot water and bring it to a gentle boil now add almond cashew paste, mix well. cook further for 5 minutes. Add garam masala powder, kasoori methi. Adjust the salt. Add some finely chopped coriander and cook further for 5 minutes.
- If you enjoy sweeter taste you can add honey.
- Garnish it with some nuts, raisins and coriander.
- Serve it with tandoori roti, naan, rice.
Nutrition
Calories: 370kcal
It turned out great and my family loved it!