Bidisha's Corner

Sunday 30 November 2014

Tomato Mattar Chicken

INGREDIENTS:
Chicken (500gms).
Curd (2 TBs).
Salt to taste.
Chopped onions (1 cup).
Chopped tomatoes (2 cups).
Green chilies (4-5).
Ginger paste (1 TBs), Garlic paste (1/2 TBs).
Red chili powder (1 TBs), Turmeric powder (1 Tsp).
Garam masala powder (1 TBs), Coriander powder (1 Tsp).
Oil (1 1/2 TBs).
Ghee (1 Tsp).
Green peas (a cup).
Coriander for garnish.
Coconut scrapping (1 TBs).

PROCEDURE:
Marinate chicken with salt, curd, ginger, garlic for 30 minutes to 60 minutes.
Heat oil in a pan and add whole garam masala and fennel seeds to it, as it pops up add onions and saute them golden brown, now add tomatoes, coconut, a pinch of salt as salt is already added during marination, and saute well till tomatoes gets cooked and oil leaves the walls of pan.
Now add chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder and green chilies, sautewell, add little water say about 1/2 cup so that ingredients of pan don't burn up.
As the spices of the pan gets cooked up well, now add marinated chicken to it and mix well, so that ingredients mixes with the just added marinated chicken.
Allow it to cook in close and stir occasionally.
If required add water for desired gravy.
As chicken is being cooked add green peas and let it cook along.
As chicken is done, and desired gravy is obtained add ghee, coriander leaves and off the flame.
Serve it garnished with roti, chapati, naan or poori.




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