Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Yogurt chicken curry
- Add oil in a pan.
- Add cinnamon, cloves, bay leaf and cardamom. Fry for few minutes until the aroma of spices comes out.
- Add chopped onion and fry until the onion is translucent.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and fry for a few minutes.Make sure the ginger-garlic paste blends together with the onion.
- Add chopped tomato.
- Add 1/4 tsp of salt along with the tomato.
- Cook until the tomato is mashed enough to make a masala.
- Add coriander powder and mix well.
- Next add chicken masala.
- Add yogurt and mix well.
- Add turmeric powder.
- Now add the chicken pieces and mix until the masala covers and coats the chicken pieces.
- Cover and cook the chicken for a few minutes.
- Add salt.
- Add water and mix well.
- Cook covered until the chicken is ¾ cooked.
- Add cilantro leaves and cook covered until the oil floats on top of the curry.
- Serve hot with rice or chapati.
Chicken tikka masala
- Add the boneless chicken pieces into a bowl.
- Add ginger garlic paste.
- Now it is time to add the masala powders. Add garam masala.
- Add turmeric powder.
- Now add the cumin powder.
- Add chili powder.
- Add required salt.
- Now add the curd and mix well. Make sure the chicken pieces are thoroughly coated with masala.
- Keep the marinade to soak at least for 30 minutes.
- Add oil in a hot pan.
- Add the marinated chicken and cook until the water evaporates and the chicken is dry enough.
- Add the required oil to make the gravy.
- Add the chopped onion.
- Add ginger garlic paste and fry well.
- Add tomato puree and cook well for a tastier gravy.
- Add cumin powder.
- Add garam masala.
- Add turmeric powder.
- Add coriander powder.
- Add salt.
- Now add chili powder.
- Cook the gravy without adding any water.
- Add brown sugar.
- Now add the required water and cook.
- Now add the cooked chicken pieces and cook for a few minutes.
- Sprinkle the chopped cilantro leaves and serve.
Chicken meatballs
- Take ground or minced chicken in a bowl.
- Add salt to the ground chicken.
- Add ground oregano.
- Add Italian seasoning.
- Add all purpose flour.
- Mix well until everything blends together.
- Preheat the oven at 180 C.
- Take a teaspoon full of meat mixture and use another teaspoon to make balls.
- Use the teaspoons to make a well rounded balls.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Place the meatballs in the lined baking tray with enough room to cook.
- Place the meatballs in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- Turn the ball after 4 minutes and cook for the remaining time left.
- Use the meatballs according to your recipe or store them in a freezer for future use.
Notes
Yoghurt chicken curry
- Use a blender to make the ginger-garlic paste.
- Add salt along with tomato to speed up the cooking.
- Add Kashmiri chilli powder for a red colour curry.
- Keep the chicken in the refrigerator until other ingredients are ready to cook.
- Use a blender or meat grinder to grind the chicken if the ground chicken is not available.
- Grease the teaspoons with oil to ease up the making of balls.
- Adjust the oven time according to your oven heating pattern.
- Let the meatballs cool down completely before storing them in the freezer.
- Use glass containers for storing the meatballs in the freezer.