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Chicken Almond Korma


Ingredients: 

400 gm boneless chicken pieces
Almond paste
1 tbsp oil
4 cloves
4 cardamoms
2 sticks of cinnamon
2 bay leaves
1 cup yoghurt
Gravy
1 tbsp oil
1 tbsp ginger-garlic, paste
1 tbsp brown onion, paste
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp red chili, paste
1 tsp salt
3 cups of chicken stock
½ tsp mixture of mace and cardamom powder
½ tsp garam masala (1/2 tsp of each: cinnamon-cloves-black pepper-cardamom powder)
2 drops of kewra essence
Saffron, roast almonds and coriander leaves to garnish

How to cook

For the Chicken
  1. Put almond paste in thin chicken slices and tie the piece together with a thread.
  2. Then heat oil in pan. Add cloves, cardamoms, cinnamon, bay leaves and chicken. Cook the chicken till it loses color, and then add the yoghurt. Cover the pan and cook for about 2 minutes.
  3. Strain the chicken and remove the thread from it. Now keep the chicken aside along with the strained chicken stew.

For the Gravy
  1. Heat oil in pan.
  2. Add ginger-garlic paste, onion paste, coriander powder, red chili paste, salt, strained chicken stew, chicken stock, prepared chicken pieces, mixture of mace and cardamom powder, garam masala and kewra essence.
  3. Cover the pan and cook for about five minutes.
  4. Now put the chicken in a container and garnish with saffron, roasted almonds and coriander leaves.
  5. Seal the lid of the container with wheat dough. This will not allow the aroma to escape easily.
  6. Then place the sealed container on a low fire and cook for about 10 minutes.
  7. Serve hot with Rice or tandoori roti.















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