Udayan Favourite Chicken Masala

So I named it such because I am required to remake it every now and then.

Ingredients

• Chicken : 1kg

Marinate

• Beaten Curd:1/2 cup
• Vinegar 2 tbsp
• Dhania Powder : 2 tsp
• Red Chilli Powder: 1 tsp
• Tumeric Powder: 1/2 tsp
• Garlic Masala (I have one from Goa) 2 tsp
• Tomato sauce :-  2 tblspns
• 1 cube of butter
• Salt to taste

Masala

• 3 onions chopped
• 2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
• 3 tomatoes puree
• ½ cup beaten cream
• 1 tbsp curd
• 2 tsp kasoori methi
• 2 tsp degi mirch
• 1 tbsp tomato sauce
• butter for cooking
• 2 tsp jeera
• 15 cashews soaked in water and make a paste of it.

Method

• Marinade chicken with vinegar n salt n leave aside for 15 mins.
• Then add around 1/2 cup beaten curd and 2 teaspoons dhania powder, 1 teaspoon red chilly powder,1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder, garlic powder, tomato sauce and little butter and salt and marinade for an hour
• In the same vessel after an hour put chicken over slow heat for cooking.
• Grind fried onions with 2 tspns of ginger garlic paste.
• In a kadhai add butter, splutter jeera and add onion paste
• Cook for 5-7 mins on slow flame.See to it that you bhunno the onions for long on slow flame till it gets a perfect brown color.
• Add tomato puree n cook till oil leaves sides.
• Then add kashmiri chilly powder n red chilly powder and 1tblspn tomato sauce..1tblspn curd.1/4 cup beaten cream, paste of handful cashews,beaten cream and cook the gravy well till oil leaves sides and den add the chicken pieces n cook again..add some red food colour(optional).
• Add kasoori methi and garam masala powder.cook for 2 more mins and garnish with corriander and fresh cream..
• Serve Hot with jeera rice