Chicken curry for your soul... :p

Chicken tastes really good if prepared like this!

Chicken -500 gms
Tomatoes - 2: blended
1.
Onions - 3: finely chopped (you can use a grinder for this but don't make it a puree; just chop each onion into six halves and grind it for 4 secs - this worked for me)
Green chillies - 2 nos
2.
Curd - 1 tbsp(thick)
Turmeric powder - one tsp
Ground red chilly powder - one tsp
Chicken masala (Everest)- half tbsp
3.
Ginger - chopped - 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves chopped -1 tsp
Garlic - ten cloves
Green chillies - 2 nos
4.
Mustard seeds -half tsp
Sunflower oil - 4 tbsp
5.
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Chicken masala (Everest)- two half tbsp
Coriander powder - two table spoon
Salt - to taste

Cook's Way
First, mix the cleaned chicken pieces with ingredients no.2 and marinate it for an hour.

Grind the ingredients no.3 into a fine paste.

Now, in a deep pan, add oil and mustard seeds; later, add ingredients no. 1 and ingredients no.3 and saute it nicely on low flame. Next, add and blended tomatoes when the onions become slightly brown and allow thenm to boil for five minutes. To this, add ingredients no.5 and continue mixing them at low flame. Add chicken pieces and two cups of water along with salt to taste. Boil this for 5 mins on high flame with constant (slow) mixing. Finally, close the vessel with a lid and allow it to cook at low flame till the chicken pieces are cooked well and the gravy thickens.

More chicken masala (maybe a tbsp) can be added, as the gravy is slightly sweet because of the ground onions.

This dish goes well with rotis.

Evolution: Adding curry leaves is also recommended.

My Verdict: My husband loved this curry. The gravy was lip smacking :P I was happy that I used less oil and it turned out well.